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Bingo! Yeah, you're 2 yrs older than me - and Phil's 2 yrs older than you.I'm 21. Jaswa is 19 I think.
Old enoughHow old is everyone here?
I'll start. I'm a simple 18 year old.
Hows Canada?Hi Debate Hall
I'm pretty good. Yes we should be facebook friends.Canada's good. Blahh SWF. We should be Facebook friends or something.
What's up with you?
What does that actually mean?get at me.
That explains why you're crap at debating.This is going to sound very odd. I'm almost 16.
I'm glad you are.That explains why you're crap at debating.
Just kidding.
By the way are you affected, or know people affected by the floods?
Yeah, I figured you guys would be a lot older than me. Would I be the youngest guy to enter the Debate Hall?damn you're only 15? heh sometimes I forget just how young the posters here can be.
I'm 34...
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"Free INSANE CRAZY GUY!!!" really Dragoon? REALLY? hahahahahahaha. ha.
I think that he has made many of us laugh, and I can remember several times in which I was having a bad day but his posts made me feel better. He is a light bringer in this age of modern darkness. While he certainly has his negatives and he kind of went a little into the deep end before his banning IMO, he certainly has noticible advantages and has transcendent humanity on the Smashboards into an Iconic figure that will always brighten the darkness of cloudy days. Oh, INSANE CRAZY GUY we shall miss thee."Free INSANE CRAZY GUY!!!" really Dragoon? REALLY? hahahahahahaha. ha.
Ah, ok all is good . Sorry for the misunderstanding.Dragoon I thought I read somwhere that you 13, it had nothing to do with your posts.
Guess who else is back? Yeeaaahhh...Hey, RDK is back.
Yeah, I think there was probably a lot of context that we missed out on by only reading the article.The writer responded to questions from readers. Apparently, the article was an excerpt from a longer book, and it was kind of taken out of context. The book is about how she eventually had to change her parenting methods.
http://blogs.wsj.com/ideas-market/2...-responds-to-readers/?mod=WSJ_article_related
Still, the original article makes a good discussion topic.
I mean honestly... that's a nasty kick in the teeth to Westerners. Of course there are a few things to take home from the article, maybe parents do need to be a bit more stricter, so that the kids harden up a bit. And maybe it's healthy to make them put a bit of effort into what they're doing. But you have to justify it to them and it has to be reasonable and that's exactly what Amy Chua wasn't and didn't do.For their part, many Chinese secretly believe that they care more about their children and are willing to sacrifice much more for them than Westerners, who seem perfectly content to let their children turn out badly.