Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on July 02, 2004 02:44 AM
"Um, yes you are treating her as an object. You are not treating her as a person in and of themself, but simply a means to an end, the end being your comfort at not having to explain things to her.
If you didn't treat her as an object then you'd have a discussion with her as to the issues instead of as an animal being caged away from information she wants to know about."
Pure crap. In your example, you're treating a child as an adult. It's fine to talk to your children and them them<nobr> <wbr></nobr>/why/ you're restricting what view; but you still still restrict it.
Kids will be kids, and part of being a kid is to not listen to your parents.
It's obvious you're not a parent--otherwise you'd know this. In fact, you're a gleaming piece of evidence that my above statement is 100% correct. Computer geeks tend to forget that people are not like electronics. Sometimes their neither on nor off, and they're not always logical.
Repeat this over and over to yourself: Children are not adults.
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on July 02, 2004 02:44 AMIf you didn't treat her as an object then you'd have a discussion with her as to the issues instead of as an animal being caged away from information she wants to know about."
Pure crap. In your example, you're treating a child as an adult. It's fine to talk to your children and them them<nobr> <wbr></nobr>/why/ you're restricting what view; but you still still restrict it.
Kids will be kids, and part of being a kid is to not listen to your parents.
It's obvious you're not a parent--otherwise you'd know this. In fact, you're a gleaming piece of evidence that my above statement is 100% correct. Computer geeks tend to forget that people are not like electronics. Sometimes their neither on nor off, and they're not always logical.
Repeat this over and over to yourself: Children are not adults.
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