Children are assholes. Now, let's get something straight first. I don't mean ALL children. As always, there are exceptions. Some kids are funny, some kids are cute and some kids succeed at just being kids and not annoying little douches. However most of the kids I encounter are little jerks. And from what I've seen they either a) don't know or b) dont care. Being rude to their parents, stealing shit, turning into a little banshee because they can't have pokemon cards (still happens), it's tough to watch. It's a truth that a lot of parents can't accept. I see it everyday. They push other kids, spit on people, scream and just generally behave like assholes. And the look on the faces of their parents are priceless. They stand around with a pained smile, wordlessly apologizing to anyone in the vicinity of their little demon spawn. They seem to be resigned to the fact that yes, this is my fault, and I'm sorry. It's up to you, dear parent, to combat that assholeness that your kid seems intent on making the rest of us suffer through.
What's even funnier are the parents that carry on as if they're oblivious to the destruction that their kid has wrought. "What? Mikey set your cat on fire? No sir, you must be mistaken. My little angel would never do something like that." Those are the parents that I worry about. Those are the parents that brush off everything their kid does as kids being kids. While it's true that kids will be kids, and participate in all kinds of general fuckery, there's a difference between normal kid things, and being a neighborhood terrorist. Kids need boundaries. Half the fun of being a kid was testing those boundaries to see how much you could get away with. Without rules and limitations in the home, kids will be ill prepared to handle the rules of a functional society. Its not the responsibility of teachers and daycare providers to instill discipline into your kids. It's up to you, the parent. I'm sure the majority of you will have pretty awesome kids, but they will be incredibly outnumbered by little shitheads with equally stupid parents. And who's to say one of my kids doesn't turn out to be a dick and raise their kids like dicks (it'll probably be the kid I taunt most for losing at anything). One things for damn sure though; I'm not going to stand idly by and watch it happen.
Our mom would tell me she'd slap the black off me if I ever acted like "one of those jackass little kids". Though I doubted she could actually slap me hard enough to change my skin tone, I wasn't willing to find out. I said all that to say this...discipline your kids. You don't have to "hit em in the throat or the stomach" , but do something to show them that they need to follow rules. If all else fails, I could send my mom around your house for you. After all, I'm still curious to see if she can actually slap the black off somebody.
