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Invoke: Parental-type Ufies | by wabbit65 | 2007-01-25 17:45:34 |
| D'ya want the long or short answer? |
by jdelphiki |
2007-01-25 18:13:23 |
The long answer is that the child is either experimenting with his/her independence by testing areas in which he/she can attempt to defy his/her parents. Eventually, such experiments are almost always successful because eventually, the child will find whatever areas his/her parents do not handle as well. (The areas the parents handle sufficiently, the child experiences no success and therefore will not try again). Once the child has determined the areas in which to best exploit his/her parent's insufficiencies, he/she will exploit those areas randomly, but with extreme prejudice.
The overall frequency of these exploits is directly related, and directly proprotional, to the number of discrepancies between his/her parents' individual parenting and disciplining philosophies and skills. The greater the difference between the two parents, their philosophies, and their respective skills, the greater range of areas exist for the child to exploit. Stacking incongruent parenting philosophies on top of inadequate parenting skills, and/or lackluster or inconsistent levels of discipline will result in a multiplication of the child's exploitive efforts by an order of magnitude...for *each* occurrence.
In the aforementioned example, the parent's query about the completion of the child's french fries quite likely represented the culmination of an ongoing series of successful exploits by the child, combined with a marked inadequacy of the parent or parents to have utilized the proper philosophies in similar situations in the past, along with their inability to effect the proper discipline for dealing with the current situation.
The child's behavior served to reassert his/her exploitive control over his/her parent(s)' inadequacy, while at the same time expanding the same control into whichever new areas his/her parents might permit him/her.
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The short answer? The child's a brat and the parents let him/her get away with it.
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you scare me sometimes... (n/t) | by esbita | 2007-01-25 18:20:15 |
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I scare myself | by jdelphiki | 2007-01-25 18:31:14 |
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