Parents and Kids

Parents and THEIR kids...

This may well be a multi-part blog; lemme start with the parents.

Today's parents, for the most part, SUCK at parenting. I know this because I was a kid once, I have parents, and I've witnessed a few examples of good parenting. G-d help me, only a few.

I'm more than old enough to have kids of my own, and if I did not parent well, I may be a 'grand pa' ( [there are exceptions to this.] Of course I wouldn't say it like that if this was 200 years ago - but it isn't.)

Single, couple, with kids, or with-out kids, have you been in a restaurant in the last 15 years? What annoys you most; the family with the uncontrolled screaming kids, right? I have witnessed single moms, single dads, and both parents with children that are not on a hypothetical leash. It's disgusting. I'm disgusted. What happened?

Well, political correctness happened. PC has infiltrated ALL aspects of life. At my church, there are families that let their kids run wild and do nothing to stop THEIR children from bothering adults whom have nothing (in particular) to do with them.

At a restaurant or coffee shop, kids run wild. Down the alley from me, a family of five, letting their youngest (of 5 years old) run around, alone, in the alley, with nothing more than bottoms on!

Well, hey, who am I to judge (says the PARENT). Kids will be kids. I can't spank my child, I can't punish my child. I can't teach my child. They apparently can't remember what they learned as a child. Discipline. Obedience. Respect. Courtesy. Even honor.

Perhaps these foolish parents didn't learn these things themselves. If that's the case, too bad for them, really. But they are parents now. They are grown-up, adults. They made the choice to be parents. Let them parent THEIR children.