This is what happens when you don't hit your kids
Agreed.
i don't like people hitting kids. let them become whatever they want to become. its their life...guide them..sure..give them advice...sure..but don't run their lives for them.
[Edited by saurabhfzd, 3/26/2010 7:48:42 AM]
I feel the same.
And the child has not done anything worth hitting for, he is just being over-ambitious. He just needs to be taught about how law works. If he remains stubborn, then well he is just 13, and the world is not going to change at any cost.
Harry Potter is a big achievement by age 4, and if you say you'll reading Tom Clancy books by the time you were 4 I guess you were a super genius as well, most kids by that age have just learnt/learning there ABC's and at most reading books where a single page is taken up by The Boy Sat Down, with visual aids of a boy sitting down on the same page.
As for the kid, as much I personally would disagree with him going to South Africa and would NOT let him go if this was my kid, but I say "go for it, Don't let them tell you what you CAN'T do!"
[Edited by king-of-games, 3/26/2010 6:07:05 AM]
If you can't read to a level sufficient to understand Harry Potter by age 4, you may have a learning disability. Or lazy parents.
I could also dismantle a .45 by the time I started elementary school. But that's a result of being an Army brat whose parents used their subordinates as baby sitters.
Why did he even choose Africa???
One of his areas of study is evolutionary biology.