Jul 282008
I don't know if this is true or not, but it should be.
George Bernard Shaw, I was told tonight, had an opinion on parents showing a good example to their children. He didn't agree, as I don't myself, and he expressed his opinion well.
It's better to be a horrible warning than a good example.
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Previously:
I've thought that too. I think in some cases people go out of their way to avoid being like their parents. And then when they breed it skips a generation and the kids turn into the grandparents.
Look at the royals – great scholar-poet-warrior begets dissolute waster begets mighty hammer of justice begets weak-chinned conniver and so on.
Well you certainly notice/remember one more than the other. Or at least have more gratitude when they go out of their way to not be horrible.
its true you know, u learn better from the burns u get!
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I have no idea what happened!
It's true enough Bock – the quote is probably paraphrased from Shaw's Treatise on Parents and Children:
'If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson (which is not at all necessary), hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example.'
[Gutenberg link]
Stan –
Thanks. That's probably it all right. Jesus, you're a mine of information.
It's not me, it's Google.