Morning everyone

Jake, most wrestlers in the wwe start out wrestling in high school, and alot of them go further then that too. Not saying what they do on tv is anything special, just saying that most of them have wrestled just like you did, then chose fame, fortune, and steroids! lol.

Chris buddy 12 beers an hour is a good way to get hammered fast! You musta been on a mission last night!

 

Yes she is amazing women,and thank you,she said if you need a work out program she can help.she's border line health nut right now.

17 beers in three hours for me and at the time I was only 125lbs.and yes I was very sick.

I don't do that stuff any more.

Good morning all.

 

Good Morning!

Are you ready for some football?!!

Never drank enough to get sick from it...I stopped drinking for a long time after my first hangover...I figured that was a clue...I don't usually have more than a couple drinks a month now.

 

I dont drink much anymore either. On new years ever i drank a case of beer, and before that it was august when I had a beer.

When I was younger I used to whoop er up all the time! Worst one I ever did to myself is just shy of a 66 of whiskey in just under an hour. It was my 17th birthday, and I was out of it for along time after that. to this day i still dont drink that particular brand of whiskey anymore!

 

I appreciate that, tell her I said so! I think I know what I need to do, I just need to get down to doing it. I'm going to put myself on a nutritional program to slowly raise my metabolism by eating the right foods, not the wrong ones. My whole life has been a carbohydrate and fatty meat nightmare. We are German what can I say? Anyways, I have been reading books about proper nutrition to try and teach myself how to eat again..this ontop of limiting my caloric intake to 1,000 a day.

The hardest part will be getting myself to the gym. Once I'm there I do fine..but my life is so unstructured these days.

I am!! Go CARDINALS! Sorry...I almost always support the underdogs.

 

Actually...I watch for the commercials!

But I should do a little rooting for the hometown team!

I am headed to the gym in a few minutes...I wanna do 30 minutes treadmill and 15 minutes bike.

 

That's an easy one. If a parent is doing their job, a child will believe the parent is too strict. A parents job is to teach responsibility and accountability. Children learn this by testing the boundaries and then facing the consequences of their decisions. If they learn there are no negative consequences for their actions when they are young, how do you expect them to act when they're older? Remember your shaping what kind of person your child will be for the rest if their life. Is it worth taking short cuts, or not being too mean so they like you a little more this week, or have them be a better person the rest of their life? It's not unusual for one parent to be more strict than the other, so maybe your job is to be the bad guy.

Accountability is something everyone needs to learn. If you go to work and repeatedly do things your boss tells you not to, would you be surprised when you got fired? If you robbed a bank, would you be surprised when you winded up in jail? Their are consequences for our actions. It's our job as parents to teach our children.

I didn't read your link, but anger should not be a part of discipline. If you get angry, send the kid to his room until you calm down, then you can address the discipline phase.

 

Chris the link he posted was for a violent online game where you can "whack your boss". He found his son playing the game.

FWIW I agree with what you said. All of us who have commented on this seem to be in agreement and have basically said the same things..whether it be from the child's perspective on how our parents raised us, or from the parent's perspective on raising kids.

 

Thanks Lisa. I guess I should have looked at the link. I'm not up on video games. My poor daughter even grew up without them. I figured she spent enough time bewteen the TV & computer, she didn't need any more inside activities. I guess the video games now are a little more violent than Pong.

 

Chris I agree with everything you said 100%
I was the strict parent and think the boys were actually closer to me than the wife

 

Yea, easy to say, but hard to do sometimes, right Ray? I guess as long as I'm on my soap box, I'll throw one more thing out there. Kids learn a lot more about how they are supposed to act by observing their parents than they do by listening to them. Leadership by example is something to keep in mind. When you think your kids aren't watching or paying attention to what you do, or how you do it, you're wrong. They are paying attention.

 

I must really have some differing views on parenting. I had fairly strict parents, to the point where it was overboard, and i rebelled.

I think shaping a kid is great, but you also should be able to take a step back and take a look at things and be fair(to your kid and yourself) to see if what you are asking of your kid is legitimate, or if its ridiculous. (just because a person is a parent, or an adult, doesnt mean they are always right and what they are asking of their kids might be ridiculous!)

I know people that no longer talk to their parents because of the way they were treated as kids. They dont let their parents see their grandkids, or have anything to do with their lives anymore. That was a risk that the parents never thought of when they were doing what they though was right.

Just some food for thought
On Edit: Chris what you said about leading by example, I agree with that 110%.

 

Sheldon, I have seen what you are talking about..many times. Some parents go the wrong way with discipline. They have all these "rules" but they are sometimes ridiculous and it is never explained to the child why particular rules exist. I'd say what you described is the extreme end of things and something a parent needs to avoid.

So true. I learned my work ethic by watching my dad. I had so much respect for him, the last thing I wanted to do was "mess up" and disappoint him. If you can get that kind of respect from your kids, you won't have to worry about much.

 

Mike, I have to concur with what the rest have said 100%. They will be better for it in the long run.

Edit: Except for what Sheldon said. haha j/k Sheldon

 

Morning Yall!!!!!

GO ARIZONA!!!!!!!!

Actually i dont watch football but i herd they are in it this year! LOL