Shortwave Sportfishing wrote:
On Thu, 12 Jan 2006 07:14:44 -0500, Reggie Smithers
wrote:


Shortwave Sportfishing wrote:


i hope to hell they get people to at least try the things on the kids
by chucking them in the water to see if they keep their faces out of
the water.

"Chucking" them in the water? Wouldn't it be better to just have the
kids swim in the water? ; )


same thing. sort of.


You must have been one tough Dad.


corps standard baby. up at oh-dark-thirty, beds made and inspection
before breakfast. worked on a demerit system - 25 demerits a week
which equaled their allowance - so many demerits equaled a decrease in
allowance. this stayed in force and included curfew restrictions as
they became teenagers.

toe the line.

When I started talkin' tough to my oldest when he was in Elementary
School, he'd pick up the phone and threaten to call the child abuse
line. Seems it was something being pushed in the schools at that time,
and he figured he had it over me.
I'd tell him to go ahead...the worst they would do is take him away to a
foster home. That always gave him reason to contemplate.