European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 15, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse Ann Landers dear Ann Landers last evening my husband and i visited with a couple we be known for a Long time. When we arrived their two children Ages 5 and 9, were running around playing. The father sat Down and we started to talk. After a few minutes the 9-year-old daughter came into the room wednesday april 15, 1992 the stars and stripes today a crossword Page 19 sat on her fathers Lap and smacked him in the face. He calmly said a please done to do that a and resumed talking. She struck him a second time and his response was to use his hands As a shield. When she hit him a third time he pushed her off his Lap. There was no rebuke no punishment. Nothing. When i asked Chuck How he could let her do this he said a a she a probably overtired. Whenever the kids have a Good Day they get keyed i said a you think that san excuse for such behaviour a he replied a a she a just during the next 20 minutes the children ignored their fatties when he asked them to be quiet so we could talk. His wife sat there like a bump on a log making no Effort whatsoever to control them. Finally Chuck said with a tone of resignation a the nicer you Are to these kids the worse they now i wonder if my husband or i should have removed the girl from her fathers Lap taken her into another room and said a we done to like to be around children who Are so wed like your views on this. Dismayed in . Dear dismayed what you should have done is taken the parents into another room and told them they Are abdicating their responsibility by allowing their children to behave like brats. Children need limits set and they want disc dear Abby dear Abby a a Jim and i were married last october. After our honeymoon we opened All the gifts and found nothing from Jim a brother and his wife As Well As nothing from Jim a sister and her husband. Neither couple is hurting financially. Thinking their gifts might have been stolen or misplaced we phoned both couples and asked if they had sent anything. Jim a sister said they did no to Send a gift because they ought standing up for us at our wedding was enough. She also mentioned that they had spent a lot of Money thought standing up for us at our wedding was enough. She also mentioned that they had spent on their wedding attire and Shower gifts. Jim a brother said he imagine what happened to their a a card he was a a sure his wife had one and he was absolutely certain that she had put some Cash in the envelope. We saw no card. We be been with them several times since and neither couple mentioned it. We done to know How to bring it up again without appearing greedy for gifts. Abby its not the gifts we wanted a or even the Cash. We just feel slighted because they did no to take any action to Correct the situation. Quibble Pine. It makes them feet secure and valued. Classes in parenting Are offered through local school districts Community colleges churches and hospitals. Your friends should look into this before their children Are hopelessly out of control. Dear readers these Days when too Many of us Are Rushing around at Breakneck Speed putting in Long hours and often neglecting the most important people in our lives we need to step Hack re examine our values and get a better View of the big picture. The Little essay you Are about to read was sent to me by a dear Friend. It was framed and hanging Over the Check in desk at lanyard Springs a Small resort hotel in the mountains of Arkansas. The author is unknown. If you see yourself or someone you care about clip it out for frequent reference. Slow me Down lord slow me Down lord. Ease the pounding of my heart by the quieting of my mind. Steady my hurried Pace with a vision of the eternal reach of time. Give me amid the confusion of the Day the calmness of the everlasting Hills. Break the tension of my nerves and Muscles with the soothing music of the singing streams that live in my memory. Help me to know the magical restoring Power of sleep. Teach me the Art of taking minute vacations a slowing Down to look at a Flower to Chat with a Friend to Pat a dog to read a few lines from a Good Book. Slow me Down lord and inspire me to sink my roots deep into the soil of life s enduring values that i May grow toward the stars of my greater destiny. C Creatore Syndicate should we Tell them next time we see them How disappointed we Are wed like to Settle it tactfully so it does no to fester below the surface and cause grief later in a forgotten relatives dear relatives to bring it up again with either couple would be in the worst possible taste. A gift is never owed a it is or should be Given freely with no strings attached. 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