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*KK* · 06-28-2003

Hmmm, I don't think that putting it into a two option set of choices is entirely correct either.

There have been, and still are, many places in the world where the community raises the children. Now I don't mean that kids don't have specific homes and people they call Mom and Dad, but rather that the community itself is very close knit, almost to the point that you can substitute any parent in most situations with any kid.

Case in point - the neighborhood that I grew up in. We kids ran basically as a pack, after school, all summer, especially in the summers -- up at dawn, out of the house til dinnertime and then back out til dark fell. The entire neighborhood knew each other -- we had a couple hundred houses in the neighborhood - and while there were certain groups that could be found more often (usually grouped by which end of the neighborhood you lived on) there were times we were all together -- community pool, ballgames, stuff like that.

And believe me, if Johnny's parents told Susie to sit down and behave or stop splashing Jane, or to put a napkin in their lap, etc, you simply did it. If someone accidentally broke a window or something like that, you went and worked it out with the homeowner, to their satisfaction. It's not that your own parents weren't told about your actions, but you didn't sit around and wait on that to happen.

With very few exceptions the kids in my neighborhood turned out to be bright, perhaps brighter than average in school as a group, didn't cause a lot of problems with the law and stuff like that, it was just not the way we did it. Failing a test made you the butt of a joke with your peers, as did bad behaviour -- and God forbid it got back to the other parents that you were acting up, since it didn't take but one or two of them to keep their kids away from you and you'd be out of the whole group...

My neighborhood wasn't comprised of working dads, stay home moms either - it was a mix with more two parents at work than not I think. Alot of the moms timed it so they got home from work about the same time that school got out, but if not, the older brothers and sisters were responsible for watching the youngers ones.

Just some food for thought.

06-28-2003	#31
KK Members Respin bullshit press Your Comments Are Welcomed Join Date: Nov 2002 Posts: 2,581	Hmmm, I don't think that putting it into a two option set of choices is entirely correct either. There have been, and still are, many places in the world where the community raises the children. Now I don't mean that kids don't have specific homes and people they call Mom and Dad, but rather that the community itself is very close knit, almost to the point that you can substitute any parent in most situations with any kid. Case in point - the neighborhood that I grew up in. We kids ran basically as a pack, after school, all summer, especially in the summers -- up at dawn, out of the house til dinnertime and then back out til dark fell. The entire neighborhood knew each other -- we had a couple hundred houses in the neighborhood - and while there were certain groups that could be found more often (usually grouped by which end of the neighborhood you lived on) there were times we were all together -- community pool, ballgames, stuff like that. And believe me, if Johnny's parents told Susie to sit down and behave or stop splashing Jane, or to put a napkin in their lap, etc, you simply did it. If someone accidentally broke a window or something like that, you went and worked it out with the homeowner, to their satisfaction. It's not that your own parents weren't told about your actions, but you didn't sit around and wait on that to happen. With very few exceptions the kids in my neighborhood turned out to be bright, perhaps brighter than average in school as a group, didn't cause a lot of problems with the law and stuff like that, it was just not the way we did it. Failing a test made you the butt of a joke with your peers, as did bad behaviour -- and God forbid it got back to the other parents that you were acting up, since it didn't take but one or two of them to keep their kids away from you and you'd be out of the whole group... My neighborhood wasn't comprised of working dads, stay home moms either - it was a mix with more two parents at work than not I think. Alot of the moms timed it so they got home from work about the same time that school got out, but if not, the older brothers and sisters were responsible for watching the youngers ones. Just some food for thought.