Are you referring to this? It's something of a leap to call that "John Emerson's philosophy of child-rearing".
Oops, forgot the link. Yes, that's what I meant. I'm sure JE won't object to the characterization.
To punish you for omitting the link, I will now run extra.
Was the kid on the chair you, ogged?
This particular philosophy is mostly spoken of in jokes about overprotective moms, but it was an actual policy during the Ch'ing dynasty. The Last Emperor (TM) took classes with his cousin, and whenever he misbehaved, his cousin was punished.
My own philosophy of childraising: "Jesse, before you were born you had an older brother, but he was bad and I made him into soup." Highly effective. Also "If you get married or father a child before you're 30, I'll kill you". That worked too. He's 32 now, no wife, no kids.
Maybe he's an emotional wreck now, and maybe he's not. But LOTS of people are emotional wrecks, for LOTS of different reasons.
you're running because of him!
completely unrelated to your point, but I really hate when people try to pull that.
I just want to say that it wasn't true. Jesse didn't have an older brother. Also, I probably wouldn't have killed him if he'd gotten a girl pregnant, or the girl and the baby either.
If he had gotten the girl and the baby pregnant, I hope you'd have disapproved.
But if he'd gotten a boy pregnant--that would have really been something, wouldn't it?
I hear placentas aren't very picky with respect to where they settle in for gestation. This isn't entirely on point, though, since the hypothetical boy is presumed eggless.
oh noes!! how will he make an omelete? He loves omelets.
You seem to have a fascination with placentas.