Common Sense Topic: Parents

Primaries next week: New York and Pennsylvania

Primaries over the weekend:

            Dem                            Rep

Wy. Sanders   

Co  Sanders                             Cruz *Without citizens voting.

Saturday Colorado had their Democratic primary and Sanders won. However, the Republican primary was held without the citizens voting at all. The citizens are not happy. Is understood.

I watch parents all the time working in a Deli. I often wonder why they couldn’t just bring their pit bull to the store instead of the kids. Their kids are often unruly and just wild. These same parents will get the call from their kid’s school and find out their kid is in trouble for bullying. They do not look at themselves. They are just disciplining their kids. The problem is that they are hitting their kids and bullying their kids into behaving the way they want them to. But of course, their parenting cannot possible be the reason their kid just hit another student.

Kids often mirror what they see at home. This scares the shit out of me. For this simple reason that if kids see their parents on welfare and doing nothing with their lives. Guess what? The kids will repeat this pattern. This is why we have multiple generations of people on welfare.

Here are some thoughts of parenting I would like to share:

First, only morons hit their kids. I am not against spanking as a last resort. Absolute last. However, slapping a kid on the back of their head is unnecessary. Telling them to shut up and being disrespectful only brings the same pattern later on in their teens. Maybe the kids who hit their parents was hit by their parents when they were small kids. They taught their kids to be bullies and then act surprised when their kids behave like bullies.

Second, every child is potential for greatness. I do not care about the color of their skin. A child is potential for greatness. They just someone in their life to believe in them and tell them everyday. Kids should be nurtured at home, not bullied.

Third and final, set expectations. I have always set expectations for my daughter that are reasonable. Like all parents, I had high hopes for Antonia, Ivy League schools like Yale or Oxford. Then I came down to earth and realized that may not be her path. Just the way it is. Some kids are bound to Ivy League schools and some are not.

  

Consequences should always be fair. They always be adequate with the age of the child. I have found limiting her internet use and television watching to what I approve and/or I want to watch. A weekend of this, she is about begging for forgiveness. The consequence is fair, effective, and I get my point across.

Until later Anarchy and Revolution.

The video will be at https://youtu.be/hHNJNi9baWc .