Reply #18: I realize that many families have 2 working parents so..

[zabet]

together family time is hard to come by.
I can remember as a child, when my folks had company, all 5 of us kids were
marched out, introduced and then sent back either to our rooms or outside to
entertain ourselves and we had better not even think about interupting the
adults. Geez, even 'stinky' was a bad word in our house.

When I look at how strict I was raised, and even though I worked, my kids
knew better than to act out in public, it appalls me that so many younger
parents do not have any control of their kids. They try to plead and cajole
where I would threaten to jerk a knot in them so to speak.

Momma always said, "Act like you got some raisin', even if you ain't".