Her children are teaching her conservatism, libertarianism and objectivism. She is just unwilling to understand the message.
Taking from a responsible one to give to an irresponsible one is wrong and in her relativistic world "unfair" by proportionality.

Unfortunately, in a few years those irrational children will be adult irrational children and voters.

This chick is a mess...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/posteveryt...

"We didn’t deserve to be poor, any more than we deserved to be rich."... wtf?

lol and she's totally missing the point... look how she ended her article!...omg! Blank-Out! "Liberalism ruined my parenting, but I’m slowly getting it back." Lady!!! you're liberalism is ruining YOUR KIDS... and you want to get 'back to it"...um..ya never left it, honey... THAT'S THE WHOLE PROBLEM. It's stun-ning....

Exactly!

And, her kids are playing her like a fiddle. Her philosophy flies in the face of what is right and wrong, but she can't see the conflict of it all even when it's literally screaming in her face. It's kind of amazing. The MOM is getting the consequences of her mothering behavior. How's that for justice?

Her problem is she is an idiot. She is trying to teach some sort of ethics / fairness to children who have no logical construct or foundation on which to base it. That's why you teach basic right and wrong principles first, as well as consequences of your own actions. If you're careless and lose/break your stuff, it's your own fault and you have to live with the results. If you do it to someone else's stuff, you need to compensate them. (we started at about that age the idea of, if you break it, you replace it.. either with $ or work..) This woman obviously does not live in the real world or have any real concept of the consequences of her philosophy.

I almost started out my comment with, can I slap her please?

I'd like to toss some gumballs at her forehead, but that would be initiating force

hello, BJ. Where ya been? I think that is a step in the right direction. But logic follows from the foundations it's based on. If the foundations are wonky...welll

She just needs a remedial course in logic, and to embrace what she learns

Wow... this idiot is getting what she's created thrown right back in her 'fair', 'equal', marxist face. And she's TOTALLY missing it... seeing what's right there, describing it even... and NOT recognizing it. Those little girls absolutely understand what she's been teaching them, they're not too young to pick up on it... she just doesn't like the end result of what it creates. Spoiled brats who don't want to take responsibility for losing their own Gum balls... good god! Wake up, lady!

" if they are ready to eat lunch or would they like to play outside with their friends for a few more minutes. "
I've learned do not give them a choice unless they really have a choice. Choices can be powerful, giving them a the feeling of having some say in their world w/o being overwhelming. OTOH it's bad if I say "would you like to eat lunch now" if the only acceptable answer is yes.

Actually, if you do that right, it's OK. Just make sure to never give a kid a choice you won't, or can't, live with. If playing outside for any amount of time is not OK with you, don't give it as a choice. But if you do it right, the kid learns how to make choices - a useful skill. Too many of our kids are never allowed to make choices until they suddenly have to, at age 18. THAT's dumb.
What I hate are the ones who do give a choice they would never live with: "Get in your room or I'm going to kill you!." gives me shivers

I love the moms that ask their four-years-old if they are ready to eat lunch or would they like to play outside with their friends for a few more minutes.

Idiots.

In that situation I tell my kids, "that candy is worth about 6 minutes of raking leaves or shoveling snow at the going rate." This is a basic fact that obviates the whole discussion of fairness.

My point is less about the actual value of the candy but the thought process of "need/want something --> do work to get it."

It doesn't make them feel okay about losing something, but feeling the loss of accidentally losing or breaking something is part of life.

I can't tell you how many times I had to have the "You're the parent, and she is the child." conversation with parents. She's not going to "get it"; she can barely get "yes" and "no".
and when I read that his woman actually entertained suggestions about how the kid who lost her candy could get more, I wanted to barf.
grrrrr.

hi, Miss Mimi!

This sounds like many parents today. Even non liberals. I can't count the number of parents that claim to be conservative/libertarian that their children act just like this. Little do they realize they are making the next generation of liberals.

*Waves hi*

MIMI! long time no see

I’m not going to put her in her corner. I’m going to wait a few years and laugh my butt off when she has to deal with teenage girls who think life is unfair and they won’t be running to her to solve their problems. Pffft. That mom doesn’t know how good she has it right now --how easy it would be to get those girls to take to the bit.

Shame on her.