I was thinking this afternoon, after writing that article about my 11 year old getting hit on at the pool....(that wood burning smell that some of you might have experienced was me thinking. Hope it didn't alarm you all too much)
When did it become ok to view 13 year old pubescent girls as sexual objects? Or even 14, 15 or 16 year olds? Apparently it's happened, and is still happening. Look at the amount of pedophila we have on the net. Look at the clothing being worn and attitudes being demostrated by girls as young as 10 and 11. Look at how we view the likes of Britney and Christina. Listen to the conversations of 12 year olds the next time you get a chance. When did it become ok for a 12 year old girl to consider herself 'hott'?!!
When did we start thinking that it's ok to let 'the system' step in and start parenting our children? When did having a social worker become normal, or even chic (and yes, in some circles, it is)?
When did we stop accepting responsibility for our own actions? When did we allow it to be ok to say "I beat my kids because I wasn't hugged enough as a kid"? Here's a thought - if you have enough presence of mind to know what's causing your issues, shouldn't you have enough presence of mind to fix your problem and perhaps not do it anymore? Instead of blaming it all on someone else? My dad beat the shit out of me and my brother. Does that give me the right to exhibit anti-social behviour and say that it's ok for me to be that way because it's my dad's fault?
When did we all get the strange idea that everything should be 'fair'? That what someone else has, I should be entitled to, just because? Here's another thought: shit happens. Life isn't fair. Instead of yelling about rights to this and that and the other, wouldn't it make more sense to play the hand that you've been dealt and do the best with what you have? Just as not all of us have the mental capacity to be molecular physicists, not all of us are going to be millionaires either.
When did we start telling our kids "you can be whatever you want to be, as long as you try hard enough". If that's not setting a kid up for failure......again, someone with an IQ of 100 isn't likely to be suited to neurosurgery. There is nothing, abosolutely nothing, wrong with being a garbage collector. Or a mechanic. Or a cashier at a grocery store. You're earning a wage, an honest wage, and if that's the job that you're suited to an have the the apitude for, then more power to you. I see so many kids kicking thmselves in the ass because they 'didn't try hard enough', when they don't need to.
Ok, here endeth today's rant. Anyone got any answers?