[Hopey]

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it's not the thing, it's the reasoning behind the thing.

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Making a mountain out of a molehill is the wrong reasoning no matter what you choose to do, and is pointing your efforts entirely in the wrong direction.

And, you can't speak of the reasoning fairly while changing the OP's reasoning to something it wasn't.


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Actually, what happened is that the thread spiralled out of control, and I was relating what one of the other posters said (about text messaging) to how my father raised his children. I was discussing more the perils of being an authoritarian parent, as opposed to trying to disect the OP's statement about not allowing text messaging.

I went off on a tangent, and I didn't mean to call into question the OP's parenting, as I obviously don't have enough information to form an opinion.