So there we go. A little clarification on lineage!

You wrote: “I just didn’t know whether or not you thought I had presented myself as an expert on parenting.”

I should have stated that in my first post. I’m glad it’s all worked out now.

Take care,

Curt

Please keep sharing your stories.

You wrote: “Billy, Curt, Vicky, do you have anything you’d like to add? Ask questions about? Voice an objection to?”

I’d like to add that in my last post I was throwing some support Vicky’s way without listening to the podcast (we’ve got dial-up internet service). I know what it’s like to, in her words “find myself behaving punitively to try to force them [children] to do something they don’t want to do.” And, of course, the support I was offering was coming from a place of not so much agreeing with this action as a parent (It simply don’t work), but saying that I can relate to it as a parent. Then when you sit down as a parent after behaving this way and read the child psychology literature, you can start to feel real bad. And sometimes it takes another parent’s point of view, who don’t have a degree in psychology or psychiatry, to help put things into perspective for you.

So, I apologize if my comment took the conversation to an unintended place.

Does this make sense?

Take care,

Curt

But I apologize for taking the the conversation in a direction that it wasn’t intended to go.