Fucking Racist

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Great thread. Personally, as someone who takes responsibility for my kids in every way, I get sickened by the lack of standards by some parents. I have my own set of books, standards, and activities that are required in my house without regard to what is being taught in school. For example, all my kids had to read the two money/investing books for kids I have, they all save part of any money gifted or earned into savings/investments, they all must truly understand and read the Bill of Rights, they get challenged and rewarded to read extra books on subjects we deem important, and they all are expected to know the difference between things like their and there, than or then. They are expected to do their best job when they do school work, so bad handwriting, mediocre effort, unchecked math problems, or lame baby sentences on research reports are out. They are all straight A students that train in jiu-jitsu, play sports, and have hobbies, video games, and time to play with their two dogs. Excuses by other parents annoy me.

I like this MF, a kid needs to learn how to learn, that is something that most parents neglect, the only part I have a little problem with is the reward system, that might be sending a wrong message since most people who excel are seldom rewarded for the effort.

But all in all it has Mocks Legend seal of approval.

Thanks ... and by reward I meant something like an extra hour of play or something because they got into their book and read it in one day, or read an extra book that week ... or perhaps I give them an extra treat because they aced a test. We also reward report cards when they improve from last marking period. When they are young I want it to be rewarding on several levels if they condition themselves to make investments in time, energy, and money. Which is why, for example, we don't do allowances. Besides requiring them to start any kind of small business at the age of 12, they collect their investment income, simulated by us giving them 1% of their accounts total per month. This rewards further investing because more investing means more monthly income for them while teaching concepts like making money your friend, growing money, seeing yourself as an owner, and developing your own income streams instead of depending upon bosses being seen as your only option.