Myspace blog from April 7, 2009

What are you teaching your kids, exactly?

I know it’s not really my place to talk about this kind of stuff because I’m not a parent. Yet.

But I know how I was raised and I know how my friends are raising their kids. So I guess I have some sort of grasp of what should and should not happen, right?

I was in Wegmans earlier and there was this little boy no more than 10 years old yelling and carrying on, being a kid so I happened to look over to see what he was doing. Sort of instinctive to look when someone is making a lot of noise, right?

This little kid abruptly stopped screaming and said, “What the hell do you think you are looking at?!”

Wait…what? Your ten year old kid is talking to a STRANGER like that?

Aside from the possibility that this kid has some sort of behavioral/mental problem which requires treatment, this is completely unacceptable behavior am I wrong?

It really bothers me that people aren’t teaching their kids basic things like respecting others, manners, social skills etc. People aren’t being PARENTS. I see this happening more and more everyday and it’s not just manners. People don’t seem to understand that when they make the decision to have a child it is their responsibility to RAISE that child and teach it how to behave. Children aren’t programmed to know how to act so if you aren’t showing them, they aren’t going to act appropriately. Part of being a parent is *gasp* parenting! So fucking act like a parent and teach your kid to be a decent human being. At the same time, don’t expect your kid not to be a dick if you’s a dick!

I would never have pulled the shit that 10 year old kid pulled in Wegman’s today when I was 10! I was taught better than that. I would have gotten the shit kicked out of me and my mother would have never taken me anywhere ever again. Most of the people I know would tell you pretty much the same thing. As far as my friends with kids… even on their worst day, their kids would NEVER act that way (and if they did, they wouldn’t get away with it)!

If your 10 year old is swearing and disrespecting random strangers at the grocery store and he DOESN’T have some sort of behavioral/mental issue that may cause him to do so that you can’t help then WHAT THE FUCK are you doing?

No wonder there are so many screwed up teenagers around doing stupid shit. No wonder our society is going to hell… because people don’t know how to be parents and how to teach their kids to be decent human beings. Partially because they weren’t taught that stuff themselves.

This is a very bad outlook for our society and our species as a whole. It makes me worried.

/end rant.