Posted on 06/16/2013 5:34:09 AM PDT by NotYourAverageDhimmi
How do we explain the parenting that went on with the arrogant children running the show these days?
Well, I guess parenting is especially challenging ... if you’re a Liberal.
What a potty mouth parent.
great article!!!!!
I was the same, nothing but the best for my kids and that included no mighty Morphin Power Rangers. But that was not realistic and we got Power Ranger costumes eventually. In fact, we would get the costumes for Halloween months early and they would wear them a lot.
Kids are great, what life is all about, they are a challenge too, I never spent so much time in the emergency room getting stitches and xrays...............I wouldn’t trade it for anything.
What an immature clown. Poor kids. But at least their father is around, puerile as he is. A lib, of course (note drunken partying, pot-smoking, reluctance to homeschool). He certainly isn’t taking them to church, either. I’m glad my father isn’t like that and my adult son won’t be like that either.
2. My kids took piano lessons. Minimum sentence: 2 years. Turns out, once they took the lessons for a while, they began to actually play music, and actually liked it. Older one took lessons for 6 years, younger one for 5 years.
3. If they were full before finishing what was on their plate, I never forced them. But they were obligated to eat at least a little bit of whatever was served. Today, they are ravenous omnivores who eat anything and everything that isn't nailed down. But both have a grace given to them that when they've eaten enough, they push away. They are not gluttons.
4. They are 18 and 15 years old and I'm still very attentive. I don't have to break up many arguments because they learned a long time ago that they are each others’ natural best friends, and apart from their parents, their best allies, each one having the “back” of the other.
5. We homeschooled. Turned out great. Nothing I have ever done at work has been as worthwhile or as important as working with my wife to educate my sons. Enough said.
6. TV - 30 minutes a day until they were pre-teens. Didn't have to enforce the rule after that, as by then, TV bored them, they'd rather work on the computer, play outside, play the piano, or read a book. No video games either. We never restricted them from playing with this stuff when at friends or neighbors, but we never owned any ourselves. They seemed to have survived.
7. Not exactly sure of the issue. I suppose we have logos on the table. I mean, would you really take ketchup out of the bottle and put it in a small serving dish?? Yikes, I'm not THAT nuts.
8. We were never much of partiers before our kids were born; didn't take it up afterwards. We still did the things we liked before they were born once they were born - fine dining, museums, window shopping, visiting historical sites, etc. They enjoy eating good meals at good restaurants, have proper table manners, enjoy museums, tolerate trips to the mall, and they know in which half-century the Civil War was fought.
9. Never smoked pot in the first place. Saw no reason to take it up upon their entry on the scene.
10. No Disney stuff in our house. But plenty of heroes and the like. Some of my fondest memories were reading The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings to my four year-old and then seeing him teach himself how to read because I was going too slowly through The Chronicles of Narnia. Later, his heroes were Odysseus, Xenophon and the like. In the original Greek.
My younger guy just never got much into fiction when he was little. Much rather read the Feynman Lectures. He has taken an interest, however, in writing fiction.
I’m 64 & still childfree. From time to time I need an article like this to erase any incipient regrets.
Furniture looks like new, come & go as we please, surrounded by children only in church, blessed silence at the point of a remote, money in the bank, you get the idea.
Only.....in church today the Rev will ask all fathers to please stand for a round of applause. A few uncomfortable seconds, big deal.
[flameproof suit donned]
McInnes makes appearances on Fox's "Red Eye" with Greg Gutfeld, and he pens articles that appear on the Paleoconservative/Libertarian website Taki's Magazine.
Here's an article where Libs attack him for being decideley non-Liberal..
You sound like a fantastic father. Happy Father’s Day!
Thank goodness you made sure to post in this thread on fathers day. RGRDS.
So much wrong with this, the fact that he’s a lawyer who nonchalantly talks about continuing to smoke dope doesn’t even make my top 3 dislikes. But he’s pretty humorous.
As a first-year father, let me offer some of my own:
1. Biological instinct is amazingly strong.
2. Getting three hours of sleep at once makes you feel human again.
3. Babies change more in the first few weeks than they change over the next several months. Focus your entire life at soaking up those first weeks.
4. I had no idea what to do with him. Didn’t really matter.
5. The internet is wonderful for us parents with no experience.
6. If you’re really lucky as I was in finding someone great, day care isn’t necessarily a necessary evil. Being with other babies in someone else’s home about six hours per work day is great for his personality development and makes his time with his parents more precious. I can tell on the weekends that he misses having other babies around.
7. Churching the kid immediately allows for miracles; even if he has no idea what is going on, he’s in the presence of God.
8. The lack of sex isn’t so bad, when you feel completely fulfilled on so many other levels.
9. Babies’ overriding desire is to know how everything tastes. The more you struggle to keep it out of their mouths, the more urgent the need becomes.
10. The gross-out mechanism simply fails.
3. I mean: for those few weeks, focus your whole life on soaking them up.
Misconceptions
1. I’ll have X number of kids this far apart.
Surprises do happen.
2. I’ll stay home full time.
Budget and kids’ medical bills didn’t allow that, had to shift to part time.
3. We won’t have the over loaded schedule with tons of activities. We’ll focus on family and academics.
It’s hard to do when your kids want to do everything their friends are. Though my daughter is thrilled because I’m almost the only mother who comes to meetings and STAYS, though I ended up sucked in as a volunteer.
My son as a baby caught a caterpillar. I immediately started telling him, “No, put that down, don’t NOT eat that!”
He smiled and deliberately put it in his mouth. I run over to take it out, and he purposefully swallowed.
And he had no correlation to the digestive upset he had a few hours later.
This guy still has a great deal of growing up to do.
Wow. This writer needs a half dozen punches in the head.
You’re right. My apologies to the happy parents posting here & a happy Father’s Day to those who have been so blessed.
Parenting is not for everyone, one only has to look around.
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