I’m not a parent, but I aspire to be one someday and yet when I see the efforts of child-rearing parents being splashed all over the newspapers, evening news & the Internet throughout the United States and beyond do what they do to their children, it just makes me cringe and I wonder how they got into the blissful part of the parenthood lottery pool, while others struggle so hard in attempts to have children and are unable to and have to go the adoption route, which is a tough road to hoe too.Take into account the several reported cases of parents leaving their younger children alone to take care of themselves and often found in disheveled conditions. Then there’s children beaten or starved to death because that child didn’t obey them. There have been more reported instances of parents chaining them up like slaves, locking their children in dark closets and locking them in cages, treating them like animals. Some children have even been murdered by their parents.
Then there are parents that let Disney, Sesame Street, cartoons, cable programs, films, videos and DVDs to baby-sit them, while subliminally formulating in their impressionable young minds a taste for “Everything Mickey” and the like.
Most of all, there are parents, as reported by the New York Times in recent days, staging a protest at a Chicago coffeehouse, Taste Of Heaven to be exact in the Andersonville neighborhood on the north-side of Chicago. They are boycotting the establishment because the coffeehouse’s owner allegedly told those particular parents that he didn’t like how their children behaving in his restaurant.
You can see where this is leading, right?
Parents are beginning, if not already behaving like children, throwing adult-size tantrums in public just because someone else tells them how to behave in THEIR establishment.
In the other examples I mentioned, it’s just parents shirking off their responsibilities off to other means or displaying immature actions, just as children do when they can’t figure out what to do because after all, babies do not come with how-to instructions when they are born into the world.
I think that these particular types of parents need to own up to their responsibilities immediately by taking care of their children like the way my parents The Arizona Babe & Rex Pâté Homo and my friends George & Sandy Weister, Mr. & Mrs. Zog-19, T-Bone & Cupid, Cathy Tedder, Cathleen Schandelmeier & Peter Bartels, Brian & Leah Grover, Michael & Debra Brownstein, Mr. & Mrs. Eric Brice, Steve & Lorre Johnson, as well as countless other parents have done and are still doing, raising their children the best way they know how to and that is with lots of love, tenderness & practicality. That’s how a child should be raised!
Well, tomorrow is Veteran’s Day, a salute to veterans of all wars, great and small. However, tomorrow when you see a parent with their child either in tow or alongside of them, whether big or small, young or old, give them a great big smile! Here’s to the parents of the real wars, the difficulties of raising their young to be good upright citizens of the world.
Yes it’s true, there are already holidays set aside for mothers and fathers aptly titled Mother’s Day & Father’s Day and the veterans who fought for freedom should have their day as well, but if it weren’t for the parents who raised these children to determine right from wrong and keep freedom intact, where would we be today?
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