by Supernova on Sun Aug 15, 2010 2:05 am
To everybody here who has ever seen the Cosby show, would you say that Cliff and Clair are what can be called 'abusive'? Apparently some mamby pambys from Sweden say that's not how they raise their kids, they don't yell at their kids (apparently they can't tell the difference between YELLING and when Clair is...calmly...but firmly...talking...), and they don't leave their kids with absolutely no choice BUT to lie to them if they want to do anything (it would seem in Sweden letting your irresponsible 16 year old run away to the next state...or wherever, to a banned heavy metal concert with no adult supervision is the right thing to do if you're a good parent), and punishing them for things they did (Vanessa sneaking into an R rated movie when she was 11 and drinking when she was what, 16?) even though they're already being punished by having nightmares (which in turn keep the whole family up for a week) or being hungover (if it were me, I'd milk her hangover for every little noise that made her head boom, like George Lopez when Carmen got drunk).
Then you got the people who say 'they were too cheap, they should've given Theo that $95 shirt or Vanessa the $15 for a CD even though she already got an allowance and just didn't save any of it'. Cliff and Clair didn't have people giving them money for every little material thing they wanted, that's how they learned to work hard and that's how they became well off and you do not stay well off by handing out money every time your kid says 'I want'. Let's face it, they weren't exactly flowers in the attic locked in one room for several years with no food or clothes or whatever...they had fully stocked rooms filled with all kinds of nice crap, toys, books, clothes, stereos, Theo had two beds, they got put in expensive colleges, they always ate, it's not like they had to scrape every cent they found for food.
In my opinion, anybody who could call the Huxtables abusive has NO idea what abuse is and needs to shut up about things they don't understand. Who agrees?
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