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Aug. 27th, 2002 10:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
40cakesI want to hang up a sign in my department that reads, "Most of the women here already have children. They don't want yours."
I've always voiced my dislike of children. However, some reasoning behind why I don't like them has brought me to the conclusion that I don't like parents. Bad parents.
One can say that there are no books on parenting. Babies don't come with an instruction manual. That works both ways. Babies also don't come with a guide to life that they read, learn right and wrong from, and go on their merry way. YOU, as the parent, have to teach them. PARENT them. A child does not know that they shouldn't wander away from Mommy in the big store, unless she has been taught by Mommy not to wander away.
In a sort of heartless way of looking at it, children are like lab rats. Punish them when they don't do what you want them to do. Feed them cheese when they do good. If you teach a child that whenever you tell it "No, you're not getting a toy today, you've been bad," that you'll buy them a toy that day, it will continue to be bad. If a child learns that the only time Mommy and Daddy pay attention is when they've done poorly in school, they'll continue to do poorly in school. And if they don't respect you when they're 5, when you're so much bigger than them, how do you expect to wield any authority when they're 16 and taller than you?
A 2 year old girl locked herself in a fitting room yesterday. She was with her mother, her grandmother, and her 6 year old sister. None of them were watching her. Shannon and I were. We saw her go into the fitting room, giggle, close the door, and heard the door lock. We frankly didn't care. The mom noticed a few minutes later that her child was gone, but didn't worry. Because the 6 year old was in there with her.
Then the 6 year old said, "No, Mom, I'm right here."
She didn't know where either of her spawn were.
I think about that when I see the missing children reports on TV. I think, "How many children are missing because of a super-stealthful cat burglar/pedophile who steals the children in the night before hacking them to bits? How many children are missing because Mom and Dad thought someone else would make sure their child didn't get stolen?"
Squatting out a spawn does not make you a parent. If you don't want a child, there are numerous measures you can take to prevent it. Birth Control is one of them. If it's too late for that, an option is adoption (That rhymes. it's a good slogan. they should use that and pay me money for it). Another is abortion (my ideas about that are another entry entirely, though).
I'm done my rant. Thank you.
>^..^
I've always voiced my dislike of children. However, some reasoning behind why I don't like them has brought me to the conclusion that I don't like parents. Bad parents.
One can say that there are no books on parenting. Babies don't come with an instruction manual. That works both ways. Babies also don't come with a guide to life that they read, learn right and wrong from, and go on their merry way. YOU, as the parent, have to teach them. PARENT them. A child does not know that they shouldn't wander away from Mommy in the big store, unless she has been taught by Mommy not to wander away.
In a sort of heartless way of looking at it, children are like lab rats. Punish them when they don't do what you want them to do. Feed them cheese when they do good. If you teach a child that whenever you tell it "No, you're not getting a toy today, you've been bad," that you'll buy them a toy that day, it will continue to be bad. If a child learns that the only time Mommy and Daddy pay attention is when they've done poorly in school, they'll continue to do poorly in school. And if they don't respect you when they're 5, when you're so much bigger than them, how do you expect to wield any authority when they're 16 and taller than you?
A 2 year old girl locked herself in a fitting room yesterday. She was with her mother, her grandmother, and her 6 year old sister. None of them were watching her. Shannon and I were. We saw her go into the fitting room, giggle, close the door, and heard the door lock. We frankly didn't care. The mom noticed a few minutes later that her child was gone, but didn't worry. Because the 6 year old was in there with her.
Then the 6 year old said, "No, Mom, I'm right here."
She didn't know where either of her spawn were.
I think about that when I see the missing children reports on TV. I think, "How many children are missing because of a super-stealthful cat burglar/pedophile who steals the children in the night before hacking them to bits? How many children are missing because Mom and Dad thought someone else would make sure their child didn't get stolen?"
Squatting out a spawn does not make you a parent. If you don't want a child, there are numerous measures you can take to prevent it. Birth Control is one of them. If it's too late for that, an option is adoption (That rhymes. it's a good slogan. they should use that and pay me money for it). Another is abortion (my ideas about that are another entry entirely, though).
I'm done my rant. Thank you.
>^..^
