-=> Quoting Maurice Kinal to Nancy Backus on 12-Oct-2017 02:22 <=-   
      
   Just getting back into my replyings after being away from home for   
   almost a week.....   
      
    NB>> what would benefit one might not the other, and indeed might even   
    NB>> prove detrimental   
      
    MK> Looking back, it seems to me it was more of "the punishment fitting   
    MK> the crime" dealie.  For example if I sent them to their rooms for time   
    MK> out for the younger one that was punishment but for the eldest it   
    MK> wasn't since she often willing went to her room to read books.  She   
    MK> was a real bookworm that one and it was virtually impossible to find a   
    MK> suitable punishment although she seldom required any punishment.    
      
   There is that, too.... :)  ("don't throw me in the briar patch" says   
   Br'er Rabbit, in the hopes that the fox will...)   
      
    MK> Speaking of punishments, often I would 'threaten' to send them off to   
    MK> a Catholic girls school which rightly neither took as a serious threat   
    MK> ... which it never was.  However decades later the younger one was   
    MK> totally caught off guard when she found out the place actually   
    MK> existed.  All those years ago she thought I had made it up.    
      
   Surprise... ;)   
      
    MK> Same deal with math camp which her eldest son willingly enrolls in   
    MK> every summer. She thought I made that one up too.    
      
   At least she knew that it was an idle threat in her case.... and had she   
   been interested in going to math camp, she might have been able to done   
   it too...  :)   
      
    NB>> At least you have grandchildren   
      
    MK> Yes.  I definetly live a charmed life and probably don't deserve any   
    MK> of it. :::evil grin:::    
      
   Probably not...   :)   Enjoy it, though....  :)   
      
   ttyl      neb   
      
   ... I don't suffer from insanity. I enjoy every minute of it.   
      
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