Would you send your child to a religious school?

Wow, I think you're the first, BF.

I got over the teen-rebellion stage pretty fast myself, it lasted a whole week when I was about 15.

Laters all hug

i have to agree, as a parent you have to provide your child with the appropriate warnings and education on the subject and then rationalize with them when it comes to doing drugs. If they want to do it, beating them isn't going to make them stop, it's going to make them do it more because they will find it easier to become dependent upon.

Having a healthy relationship with your child is probably the most important parenting tool in the world. If you get along with her well enough to know she wouldn't lie to you...then things like drugs will be easier to talk about.

Indeed.

Originally posted by Linkalicious
i have to agree, as a parent you have to provide your child with the appropriate warnings and education on the subject and then rationalize with them when it comes to doing drugs. If they want to do it, beating them isn't going to make them stop, it's going to make them do it more because they will find it easier to become dependent upon.

Having a healthy relationship with your child is probably the most important parenting tool in the world. If you get along with her well enough to know she wouldn't lie to you...then things like drugs will be easier to talk about.

GRR, that's what I've been trying to say. But I do think it depends on the person in question.

i agree, but, say that after she's been told about the dangers of drugs and i was "reasonable" (since obviously im not), she went behind my back and did it. You're going to tell me that as a parent it would be wrong of me to punish her?

Of course not, but there are other forms of punishment other then beating them.

Originally posted by Linkalicious
i have to agree, as a parent you have to provide your child with the appropriate warnings and education on the subject and then rationalize with them when it comes to doing drugs. If they want to do it, beating them isn't going to make them stop, it's going to make them do it more because they will find it easier to become dependent upon.

Having a healthy relationship with your child is probably the most important parenting tool in the world. If you get along with her well enough to know she wouldn't lie to you...then things like drugs will be easier to talk about.

Precisely. I can't say that I have the best relationship with my mother, and my father is non-existant in my life...but I do get on well enough with my mom. I've seen all the mistakes that she's made in her life and I'm determined to not make any of them. Which is why I don't drink or smoke or do drugs or any of that.

Originally posted by Delicious1
i agree, but, say that after she's been told about the dangers of drugs and i was "reasonable" (since obviously im not), she went behind my back and did it. You're going to tell me that as a parent it would be wrong of me to punish her?

yes then you can punish them...but only verbally and materialistically...the physically is only effective(and legal for that matter) when they are young

Originally posted by BackFire
Of course not, but there are other forms of punishment other then beating them.

Again, do you think that will actually deter them from doing drugs? Physical punishment has been proven to only enhance their rebellious feelings towards their parents.

Originally posted by Delicious1
When i say beating that doesn't mean i'm going to beat her until she's black and blue! That just mean a smack on the butt or some kind of punishment.

😖 you dont have much of an imagination do you?

Look, I've done drugs, smoked, i drink. And it's screwed up my life. I will do whatever it takes to make sure she doesn't do what i did.

well dont go too far now...

this was knocked off topic pretty badly.

I'd send my kids to a relegious school. Ive always gone to a Catholic school, and my dad went to one also. I like them better than public schools. They are for the most part safer, and typicly have less violence and drugs. They also (expecially where i used to live) have higher grade point averages and SAT test scores. In alabama where i lived, my school, which was a catholic one, its SAT score average was somewhere in the 80s, the public school 10 miles down the road, its average was in the 40s.

Yeah, I know what you mean Nazgulinthedark. My parents sent me to a catholic school, although their main reason for doing so was that they believed that school was better than other schools (public or private) in our area. Mainly because it was smaller, from grades prep to 6 I don't think we ever had more than 120 people at the school in total. The whole Christian values thing was just a bonus I guess. 😛

Not a philosophical debaite, so moving to General Discussion.

I would, a religious elementary school, once they're old enough, they could make their own decision about high school 😄

The thing to bear in mind if you are planning on sending your kids to a religious or even segregated school - is that ...

In my experience the best thing about them is that when a girl thats been to catholic school her whole life gets rebellious, they go waaaay off the tracks. Some of the wildest dirtiest women it's ever been my delight to know were from religious schools, they are like whore - factories!

Send your daughters to catholic school - horny boys the world over will thank you for it.