Last rant
I love and worry about my kids. I want to know where they are at all times. Like the TV ads say, I am the anti-drug. The cell phone company I use made the decision to get m kids cell phones an easy one. I buy one and get three free and I get a plan that allows all of us to talk to each other for free. I know where they are at all times, I know if they are going to be late or if someone else?’s mom who was supposed to pick them up is running late. I know if practice let out early and I have to pick them up rather then let them sit there alone until I get there at the later time. Is there cell phone abuse by the kids? Absolutely!!! Yu and I have all heard the stories of the $350 cell phone bill a kid ran up because of text messaging or something else. It is the exception, not the rule.
Yes, I agree that many, many parents want the schools to raise their kids and parent their kids. Yes I agree that many parents are self-indulgent pigs that should never have had kids because they never grew up themselves. Yes I agree that many parents consider their kids and their kids?’ possessions as trophies they flaunt in the face of all they want to impress. I work with a guy who is the embodiment of this charade. I have spoken with at least three principals in the district over the last two years on essentially this same subject. They are appalled at what they see many parents?’ expectations of the schools are. They are horrified to see that some parents want the discouragement of the use of drugs to be the school?’s duty because wither they, themselves use drugs or have, or because they cannot leave the role of being the kid?’s buddy to being their kid?’s parent. They want the schools to teach their kids about sex because they, themselves have gotten divorced over their own indiscretions. Rather then taking the responsibility to sound like a hypocrite or a parent, they shun this and demand the schools do it.
Our culture of instant gratification is upon us. We can?’t change it. All we can do is try to be good parents. Try to emulate our parents if we feel they were good role models and emulate other parents if ours weren?’t. My parents were fair role models. While not very encouraging in many things or while not directing me towards college or the military when they should have, they gave me the single most valuable gift they could given their limited means. They gave me my work ethic. It have served me well and I will try to be more of a parent in all matters than I see my peers doing, but I will definitely share this gift of a work ethic with my kids.
Be a parent. If you had them, raise them. Don?’t be a lazy coward and demand the schools or society raise them.
I love and worry about my kids. I want to know where they are at all times. Like the TV ads say, I am the anti-drug. The cell phone company I use made the decision to get m kids cell phones an easy one. I buy one and get three free and I get a plan that allows all of us to talk to each other for free. I know where they are at all times, I know if they are going to be late or if someone else?’s mom who was supposed to pick them up is running late. I know if practice let out early and I have to pick them up rather then let them sit there alone until I get there at the later time. Is there cell phone abuse by the kids? Absolutely!!! Yu and I have all heard the stories of the $350 cell phone bill a kid ran up because of text messaging or something else. It is the exception, not the rule.
Yes, I agree that many, many parents want the schools to raise their kids and parent their kids. Yes I agree that many parents are self-indulgent pigs that should never have had kids because they never grew up themselves. Yes I agree that many parents consider their kids and their kids?’ possessions as trophies they flaunt in the face of all they want to impress. I work with a guy who is the embodiment of this charade. I have spoken with at least three principals in the district over the last two years on essentially this same subject. They are appalled at what they see many parents?’ expectations of the schools are. They are horrified to see that some parents want the discouragement of the use of drugs to be the school?’s duty because wither they, themselves use drugs or have, or because they cannot leave the role of being the kid?’s buddy to being their kid?’s parent. They want the schools to teach their kids about sex because they, themselves have gotten divorced over their own indiscretions. Rather then taking the responsibility to sound like a hypocrite or a parent, they shun this and demand the schools do it.
Our culture of instant gratification is upon us. We can?’t change it. All we can do is try to be good parents. Try to emulate our parents if we feel they were good role models and emulate other parents if ours weren?’t. My parents were fair role models. While not very encouraging in many things or while not directing me towards college or the military when they should have, they gave me the single most valuable gift they could given their limited means. They gave me my work ethic. It have served me well and I will try to be more of a parent in all matters than I see my peers doing, but I will definitely share this gift of a work ethic with my kids.
Be a parent. If you had them, raise them. Don?’t be a lazy coward and demand the schools or society raise them.
