Parenting in Cambodia

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Re: Parenting in Cambodia

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taabarang wrote:Your high opinion of yourself and your low opinion of me are both unwarranted. They will decide who they are by themselves.
phuketrichard wrote:
taabarang wrote:"All you can do is give them a good sense of who they are, solid values and pray they turn out ok"

As I said earlier and because of your obnoxious postings I must confirm once again that as long as they don't turn out like you, they will be fine.
pray they dont turn out like you, someone that will NOT listen to others TRYING to provide info.
enjoy ur life :beer3:



I just wish you guys would cut out the shit slinging, after all we're all on the same boat and learning to row in the same direction.

I'm not going to add to the posts if anyone acts like the children that we don't want them to be.
Cambodia,,,, Don't fall in love with her.
Like the spoilt child she is, she will not be happy till she destroys herself from within and breaks your heart.
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I just wish you guys would cut out the shit slinging, after all we're all on the same boat and learning to row in the same direction.

Fine with me. What child rearing issues do you want to discuss?
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taabarang wrote:I just wish you guys would cut out the shit slinging, after all we're all on the same boat and learning to row in the same direction.

Fine with me. What child rearing issues do you want to discuss?

I only want to know why babies don't come with a instruction book or a workshop operating manual. Could have solved many of my problems .
Cambodia,,,, Don't fall in love with her.
Like the spoilt child she is, she will not be happy till she destroys herself from within and breaks your heart.
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"I only want to know why babies don't come with a instruction book or a workshop operating manual. Could have solved many of my problems"

Next please.
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phuketrichard wrote:
Acting out....
All my friends with daughters ( seems it was less so for sons) went thru the same thing. Dont know any parents over here with mixed kids that did not see some rebellion /acting out, seems to hit around 13,14 years old...Its to bad u have not given them a sense of what life is like in ur country when they were younger.

All you can do is give them a good sense of who they are, solid values and pray they turn out ok
This is also how most western teenagers behave - girls in particular will act out and get stroppy. Girls often need to measure up their dads, criticize them as less than perfect beings, and rebel against their authority. Its part of growing up and becoming an adult. It is not specific to mixed families in SEA, though the method of rebellion might be different in Asia. One problem is that teenagers usually hate to be different from their peers, so yeah, that's something you have to deal with, especially in a setting where they are visibly different. They will blame you for this. They may blame you for life, the universe, and everything.

However, IMO it is no easier bringing up teenagers in the west. Teenagers are difficult - that's what they do. So you just keep going, that's what parents do.

Just my 2c. Carry on parents. :stir:
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AM there's definitely a bit of truth in what you say but I feel it's also got some of the issues I alluded to. A kind of double whammy.
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taabarang wrote:Your advice is of no use to me or my family. You haven't sufficient knowledge to pontificate.
I will consider myself a successful father if my children think and act differently than you.
What an insult. Richard is in my opinion a GREAT father. Whilst our opinions on almost every other subject may differ I would hope that I can raise an educated, mature daughter just like Richard has.

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Duncan wrote:
taabarang wrote:I just wish you guys would cut out the shit slinging, after all we're all on the same boat and learning to row in the same direction.

Fine with me. What child rearing issues do you want to discuss?

I only want to know why babies don't come with a instruction book or a workshop operating manual. Could have solved many of my problems .

Today is your lucky day.....

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In his life I hope he was(is)s a great father. Glad that you found a role model.
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Spag bol is always a winner, I guess it's because it's like noodles. My main worry is that she's not yet a teenager and unless something improves before we start getting the real mood swings it's going to be a shitty few years. It doesn't help that I'm just some guy who married her mother, someone she also only saw periodically. Her dad is Mr Memento and a bit of a lowlife, memory shot from his drug coma a few years back, so he barely remembered she existed. He's fled back to the UK as Vietnamese gangsters want to kill him. I had to pony up $150 to my wife's family just so she could come live with us. Now the wife's working full time on the island so I went from carefree and single to single parent of three in four years.
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