Some cops are good, and are just trying to follow the law. Don't blame /all/ cops, people hate cops enough, even good ones. My step dad once legitimately threatened to kill me because I wanted to be a cop... Keeping in mind at the time I was a 17 year old girl who weighed 110 pounds soaking wet.

This is terrible. I am legitimately crying.

You don't need it from everyone, and yes, at that age people should get support, but the ultimate lesson shouldn't be that you should depend on people, it should be to find your own way, no matter what that reason is. But frankly, if someone is a crap enough parent that they don't make their kid feel worthy, saying that they need to isn't going to change that. Letting kids win isn't how you make them feel worthy, from experience, several psychology classes, and a development class, that's how you make them feel like their worth depends on them winning. You let them lose, and assure them that they're great anyway, and that even if they lose, you love them, and they should try harder.

In my opinion, and you're welcome to disagree, but having self worth shouldn't be dependent on other people. Proper parents teach them that it doesn't matter what anyone else thinks, and that's it. That includes family, because if my family tells me "Hey, you can't be an artist" or "you can't get married to her" I will screw them and do it anyway, because no one has any right to tell me how to live my life, and I"m not living it for anyone else. Obviously, you have to have some friends and people who support you, it's how people are and ignoring that would be stupid, but I don't feel that parents "making their children feel worthy" is the right answer either.

Heck yeah, separation of church and state. And js, but the bible says some pretty crazy stuff. Deuteronomy 22:28-29 for instance "If a man happens to meet a virgin who is not pledged to be married and seizes her and lies with her and they are discovered, then the man who lay with her shall give her father fifty sheckles of silver, and she shall become his wife, because he as violated her; he cannot divorce her all his days", like sure that makes sense in olden times, but are you really going to tell me that every dude who rapes a girl, they should have to get married? By the way, this isn't even the only verse that says this, though I forget what the other one was.

towers than she did as a child.

Or it could be a completely different thing entirely. I'd say it probably depends person to person, and in most cases, in my opinion, it's either A) parents who don't support them and won't take them to practices, thereby not allowing them to learn B) lack of interest in doing anything competitive because they're sore losers because parents let them win (taken from many people I know) C) lack of interest because they /aren't interested/ D) lack of courage because parents never taught kids how to ignore bullies. In my case, it was A, because my mom was too poor to take me to things and didn't pay enough attention to me to care if I showed interest in anything anyway. In my sister's case, it's sort of B, because she doesn't have anything even resembling determination, because she expects to get everything she wants, because my mom gave her everything she wanted. She's completely unable to stick with anything when it doesn't immediately work, and it wasn't because people made taller lego

Wow, Flimflam is able to see how people continue to ignore arguments so that people have to use them again, and again, and again, in the hope that someone, somewhere will eventually get it. *thumbs up*

You don't know what happened before or after, you know what happened in that one second. I'm all for supporting kids, but you can't just let them win. You can't let them run around without rules, either, because it just leads to unhappiness when things don't go their way. Yes, good parents should say "try harder next time, you keep trying and you'll get it eventually" but with a picture, you don't know that that was the dad, you don't know what he said to her before or after, all you know is that the person behind the camera built a bigger tower, and she threw a fit.

What if you have two kids? How are they both going to win? Are you going to tell the older child to let the younger one win? Shouldn't you teach your kids to try their hardest all the time? Just because someone else isn't as good as you doesn't mean you should handicap yourself. LIFE isn't fair, no one is going to sit back and let you get a job because you really want one and don't know how to get one, you have to work at it, you have to put in the effort, and you have to be the best.

This image isn't showing discipline, you realize that, right? This parent didn't /let/ his child win, how is that not fair? Do you only think it's fair that everyone wins 100% of the time?

There have been studies on that, too. Without love and happiness, people's health deteriorates quickly and they can actually die. I think it's extremely foolish to expect them to just learn everything magically, the reason people have parents is so that they can teach them and educate them, and help them with the things they need. In order to have self control and to devise rules, there has to be communication and structure in a home life. Don't try so hard to avoid being Authoritarian that you become Permissive, because that's just as bad. Please, read this article and maybe take some parenting courses before you ever have kids. http://discipline.about.com/od/typesofdiscipline/a/Types-Of-Discipline-Strategies-And-Parenting-Styles.htm

I looove Zuko. Have you seen the Zuko: firelord animation on deviantart?

If you love them, you should give them the tools they need to succeed and be happy as well. In order to be a parent, you can't just love on them, you have to teach them. It has been statistically proven that children who have parents who want only to be their friends, who aren't consistent, or who don't punish them are the most unhappy. As strange as it sounds, children need rules. No, you shouldn't be unreasonable, but you can't just not give them structure because you'd rather go easy on them... otherwise you'll have very unhappy kids.

Or we've had one too many people say "Oh my god, that's so racist" when we hate someone who happens to be a minority -_-

The 7 year old then gets shoved from a 5th story window because he saw them. NBD. The stuff with Daenerys in the first couple chapters is really messed up too.

she doesn't get what she wants, despite the fact that she is /thirteen/, she throws a huge fit, because she doesn't know how to lose, because she never did.