Ive started school and have got a lot more time to float around and watch stuff unfold. Many of you may have seen this once in your life, perhaps even experienced it. Its the hidden feud between the middle aged/elderly and youth. Let me enlighten you.
Turn on your TV right now to TLC, and slowly and intently watch as 5'4, 130 pound mother of twenty-six raises her children with play dates and teddy bears because the paint doesn't contain lead. I will put my life on the line saying I will be a greater parent then these by-the-book worthless parents. They've stolen the spontaneous fun and laughter from these kids lives.
What the hell is "play date" anyways? When in the hell did fun have to be scheduled? I feel like these little kiddy's are already being slaughtered of their individuality because they can't do what the fuck they want to do. Lady, maybe your seven year old kid doesn't want to go to the art museum in a stroller hes to big for, I think he'd rather burn ants in the backyard with a magnifying glass half naked without you around. I am i no way saying "Never see your child" but I think there are easier ways to be your little dudes homie then strapping him to your right leg with a belt. Be their friend, not there guardian from everything that you think is evil. Life is short, and you need to experience things. Experiences make a person who they are, from how they act in tough situations, to how they treat a lady. Parents should be their for there children when there children need them, not to flog them with your presence in a controlling "Don't get hurt" attitude and holding a blanket over the kids head when anything PG-13 happens to come about. If your kid don't look up to you, he looks up to his friends, and who knows what that little pricks doing. What i'm saying is, give your kid space to fuck up and learn, teaching them respect and to be a leader along the way.
When I was a kid, you know how many times I smacked my fucking head on the ground when my chain came off my bike at full speed, more times then I could count, and you know what my dad said, "Get back on that motherfucker or I'm gonna kick your ass". Any parent who's like I explained above is dialing child protective services right now to save me from my "oh so terrible" life. You have to take stuff like that and apply it to your current life. You get fired from your job, your girlfriend dumps you, you lose a loved one, you take that advice you got when you fell off that bike. Get back on that motherfucker, and make the best of what you got. It makes you a strong and smart person in the end.
Parents these days also give in to there kids to much. The little brat got a toy because he cried the whole twenty minutes while you where shopping. Smack the little prick upside the head. Wining to get something and succeeding isn't going to help you later in life when you ask your boss for a raise and he says no. Make the kid learn if he asks, you say no, and hes respectful and content with the fact you said no and that maybe you'll reward him with what he asked for.
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What I have trouble comprehending, are these extreme limits on anything that contains sugar. This one can of coke a day, or half of a candy bar, saving the other half for later bullshit. Let me explain this to you. There is absolutely nothing wrong with putting limits on things for your kids, but its when it gets to the point to where they're a Jew in the 40's is wrong. Let the kid be a goddamn kid. Maybe if you let the little guy outside to play instead of waiting around inside for mommies play date, he wouldn't be fat ass, and would maybe burn off some of them calories from the two cans of pop he drank that day.
It also just isn't parents that make life for kids hard, its people stuck in the past. I'm assuming here, but if you go back far enough, i'm sure blasting music out of your stereo in your car always wasn't as popular as it is today. I read an article in some stupid school magazine where some kids were asked why they played music loud. I read "Because.. you know, its like... cool dude" Fuck that kid and anybody with his last name. Older people need to realize, its a form of self expression. That music means something to that person, it goes deeper then the noise, it lets people know "This is what I am" and "This is what I believe" in so many words. Music gets your friends, from experience, you can make a friend by having a shirt that has a band somebody likes, and even to the point where your more then friends, but best friends. You play ska and punk out of your car stereo loud enough to so people outside your vehicle can hear it sets yourself apart from people playing something else. Punks hang out with each other, hipster wiggers congregate with other hipster wiggers, and they all find each other through the powerful force that is music.
I never understood the point of banning or looking down on a certain activity because you don't do it. I don't mean shooting up or smoking crack but something as simple skateboarding. Living in a communist community, Ive seen this happen. "No Skateboarding" signs on the main street of a town of 800 people is a joke. I think people look down on certain things because of the bad image they think it has or because they've never done it. Just because you where locked in on a farm fucking your goats for fun doesn't mean you need to shutdown anybody not doing what you did. Look at it this way. Yeah, the little prick is riding his skateboard down the street, but is he selling dope to your son, is he raping your daughter in an alley, is she smashing the windows out of your house? No, there skateboarding. Its a stress relief and something that can keep you out of trouble, Just like riding a motorcycle or fishing. I do realize not everybody on a board is perfect. Yet, you do have to consider that not everybody riding a motorcycle is an outlaw. Understand my point?
What i'm saying is, let your kid, or any kid live there life. Its not yours and you had your chance. Give them space to be themselves, but always be there for them when they need you. This is the next generation, and from what I see for the people coming up into it. This is going to be one fucked up world. And I blame you 5'4, 130 pound mother. Fuck you. Fuck you. Fuck you.
-Dakota Wilson
