Category: OC in the Class Room ¤
  Author: Sue Ailsby ¤
   Title: Applying 'Bitch' Behavior to Your Kids ¤

Good call, Diane!  When I had my first kid, I had ZERO experience with
kids, so I decided to treat him like a bitch would treat a puppy (for lack
of a more "appropriate" role model).  My bitches would eat through walls
to get at a screaming puppy, so my kid was simply not allowed to cry.
Now, an interesting thing happened.  There were three babies born to local
KC members within a week or so of each other, and all three wound up in
strollers at an obedience class at about 3 mo of age.  When THEIR babies
cried, they were ignored, and mommies went on training.  When MY baby
cried, I stopped (amid boos and jibes and dire warnings of spoiled brats),
took him out of the stroller, cuddled him until he stopped, then went back
to training.  The interesting part of this whole thing was that three
weeks later, MY kid could sit in his stroller for the whole hour, watching
the class and/or napping, while THEIR kids continued to scream through the
entire 10 weeks of the class.  So my take on this would be the same as D's
- you don't have to be exciting in the middle of the night, but if you
look at the long history of humanity, a 2 yo kid alone in the middle of
the night wouldn't be safe and happy, he'd be eaten by tigers so of COURSE
he's screaming for mom, just like a 7 wo puppy does.  In a previous
discussion on this subject, I came up with what the bitches taught me:

Bitches' Creed:  take care of all needs, love unconditionally, don't growl
unless you mean it, only pretend to bite, take no crap from anybody,
give them room to think, and accept them as pack members when they grow
up.

My "pups" are 18 and 20, and I have to say that they have spent their
entire lives being a credit to my tutors.

Sue eh?