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J. Wilder

  • Lounge, The Re: I'm Back!

    Cool. Welcome back, Nate.

    Aug 22, 2005
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Child discipline

    If you weren't spanked then you don't really understand. I was and I still don't understand. Discipline never made me feel safer. It just kind of annoyed me. I think ...

    Aug 22, 2005
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Child discipline

    I believe you should never hit your children. Regardless of the reason. Doesn't matter how you do it, or how hard you do it. Take discipling children for violence. If ...

    Aug 22, 2005
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Child discipline

    emotion_less said: Younger children should have both of those. I think that the bedtime should be dropped for slightly older kids... It's your decision when you want to sleep, and ...

    Aug 21, 2005
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Child discipline

    I think it's always wrong for parents to hit their children. Always. Especially when they don't apologize, and especially when the parent gets mad at the kid for hitting siblings. ...

    Aug 19, 2005
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Public, Private, or Home School.

    I'm sure that every homeschooled kid knows drunks and stoners. The way you put it makes it sound like our immediate circle is filled with drunks and stoners, you should ...

    Aug 19, 2005
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Public, Private, or Home School.

    Micah wrote: I don't even really like socializing because i'm just a person who likes being on my own. Most of my friends are actually all older than me as ...

    Aug 18, 2005
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Shakespeare: Before his time? Greatest writer known to man?

    Shakespeare bores me. (And yes, I've seen it performed. In fact, I've performed it.) I'd like to see The Complete Works of William Shakespeare Abridged . I saw the U.S. ...

    Aug 18, 2005
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Public, Private, or Home School.

    What would work best, I think, is a mix between Snoinks choose-your-own-education and public school. Like if you wanted to choose the types of classes you wanted to pick in ...

    Aug 18, 2005
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Public, Private, or Home School.

    Areida07 wrote: I'm big supporter of homework. Yeah, throw stuff at me, whatever. It teaches self-discipline, time management, and allows the student to learn things they don't have time to ...

    Aug 18, 2005
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Public, Private, or Home School.

    You meet many like minded people, and an certain ignorance is bred into the student of what the world is actually like. I think this can happen in some public ...

    Aug 18, 2005
  • Lounge, The Re: Let's all bash Rei

    You said, And how is it so many people seem to think I'm so great when I see a much larger number of comments on my work pointing out the ...

    Aug 13, 2005
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Smoking

    Yeah.

    Aug 5, 2005
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Smoking

    I do think we should help people who make bad decisions... As for DARE, I can't know if they've ever stopped anybody, but I wouldn't be surprised if they haven't, ...

    Aug 5, 2005
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Smoking

    But people can't tell me what to do. I find that line ironic. DARE is telling people what to do. I will educate me! This is also ironic, since it's ...

    Aug 5, 2005


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