You say the world sucks and is full of nothing but rapists and murderers. I know this is not going to go over well, but my dear that is what you see because that is all you choose to see. It’s confusing when you constantly complain about it, yet you refuse to see the beauty just around the corner. To constantly watch someone I love drag their own soul down into the fucking muck is tiresome. I wish I could spare you the turmoil and pain, but for whatever reason you need to experience life this way for now. I hope you get over it soon. I look forward to the day your repulsive view of the world turns to something more palatable. Until it does, I will keep on loving you and telling you when your being a Douchy McDoucher.
If you have it in the bag then that must mean the rest of the world are idiots and don’t have a clue. Casting your judgments out on others because from your experience that just didn’t work or the way you grew up it was so ego squashing to be forced to wear a school uniform. So you are going to always do the opposite of what your parents did.
Oh isn’t that how a good parent does it? They always strive to make their child’s life somehow better than their experience. If you were sheltered then you over expose them. If you were beaten you go as far as to not even spank sometimes going deeply into the world of attachment parenting losing all perspective on other possibilities and becoming judgmental of all other parenting choices. Maybe your parents were up your ass all the time (attached) and you choose to go the other way and give your kids freedom of self expression and don’t want to hinder them by being “too involved”, because then you might somehow negatively influence or squash there creative integrity. Of course your way must be the best way because its total opposite of what your parents did. No one can tell you different.
Well hot damn that sounds like a lot of bullshit doesn’t it. So somehow we are going to fix our childhoods by going in the total opposite direction of our parents with our own kids. You ever wonder if some of our parents thought the same damn thing and that’s why we are so fucked up now. Yes, there is a connection. In reality we may fuck them up just as bad or worse because every child is different and therefore requires a open minded approach to their abilities and needs to learn successfully. Trying to squish all children into your little parenting book style repertoire of rules and sure fire solutions is only one narrow minded way to parent. Who knows it may work for one or two of your kids. Giving you the illusion you have found the key, the end all be all answer to parenting. A few good thoughts to consider are:
The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination. Albert Einstein
He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery. Harold Wilson
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. F. Scott Fitzgerald
I’m not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I’m not dumb… and I also know that I’m not blonde. Dolly Parton (just making sure your paying attention)
“Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
Action and reaction, ebb and flow, trial and error, change – this is the rhythm of living. Out of our over-confidence, fear; out of our fear, clearer vision, fresh hope. And out of hope, progress. Bruce Barton
Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones, but by contrary extreme positions. Friedrich Nietzsche
I love that all of these great people shared such insightful ideas, now who says we cant take them and apply them to how we view our parenting and that of others.
Of course the closed minded view that “my way is the best/only way” is so common and has plagued us for all time. So don’t feel bad if you found yourself falling into this trap at some point in your life. We see it in the big things like battle of the sexes, gang affiliations and violence, birthing choices and all wars. All the way down to the small things like how to wear your hair, who makes the better brand of anything, don’t shop at WALMART or you’re evil too, and rap and punk will rot your brain. Really people, if you take a look at some of the views you hold so closely to and just try to step outside your tiny world for a second you might see that not everyone is like you, not every child is like you think they should be and that little fact is a blessing not a curse. Heck even your own children could be missing something essential to bring them to there true potential because your too stubborn to realize some other method or idea just might work better. The fact that people are different and require differing environments to blossom is part of what separates us from the beasts. Our diverse natural humanity creates the colorful and talented world we should all desire. Unless you have headupyourass disease like these poor individuals you will be able to take a step off your high horse and consider that we are all doing our best and others ideas and your ideas co-mingled can bring wonderful success to parenting.
To say that you have a strong belief in how a child should be brought up is your right and often very admired. I’m not trying to say everyone should just second guess every single thing they do for there kids. I’m just wishing that we had a better sense of community and camaraderie in being parents in this world together. Why does one choice or method have to be ridiculous just because its not how you would do it. Save yourself the frustration and heart ache and rejoice in the various positive and well thought out methods of other parents. Maybe then they will find it easier to see your choices as respectable also. Accept that no matter what we do there is undoubtedly going to be some issue our child brings back to us later and complains we sucked at X,Y, and Z.
