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wood fires at Arapiles 9-Jun-2011 At 11:57:58 PM jezza

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On 9/06/2011 Wendy wrote:
>Everytime I go climbing
>(which you know is rather a lot) I see piles of poo and rubbish at Araps.
That's disgusting. Where have you seen these poo piles? How high is the poo being piled? I haven't seen any poo piles myself, but let me tell you, if I catch someone placing poo into a poo pile, I'll be pulling them aside, and putting a piece of said poo in their pie-hole, pronto.

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>The point everyone seems to be missing in this is sort of like basic parenting.
> You have rules to abide. You break them. There are consequences. This
>is a pretty logical consequence.

Well, I actually _am_ a parent and I think it's a bit more complicated than that. Sure, you can make arbitrary, unfair rules, and, if your kids break 'em, you can enforce arbitrary, unfair consequences. But that's poor parenting, and I think it's also the problem with the AAC's recommendation. Good parenting involves compromise, with rules that make sense to both parties (albeit begrudgingly), and consequences that are fair, and that help steer the kids back in the right direction.