Common Sense – Not So Common Anymore
This next article really got my thinking. Made me laugh my ass off too.
http://www.wfaa.com/sharedcontent/dws/wfaa/latestnews/stories/wfaa07018_wz_wiiporn.2073d3ef.html
I mean seriously if you can’t control what your kids are doing on a gaming system YOU bought them, you shouldn’t have any kids at all. I’ve noticed that parents what everything handed to them on a silver platter when it comes to raising their kids. They don’t want to take responsibility for anything.
This article is example of that. I mean c’mon Nintendo shouldn’t have to put a ” Cyber Nanny” type of filter in the Wii just because you’re too lazy to set up the parental controls that already come with the Wii? What’s more important raising your kids or yapping on the phone, or doing whatever you want, and not watching or raising your kids at all? Having kids is a RESPONSIBILITY!!! Just because you can pop out a carbon copy of you and the man or woman you slept with doesn’t mean that you SHOULD.
Having kids means being grown up and mature enough to actually spend time with your kids and talk with them, help them with homework, and what not. It doesn’t mean you park them in front of a Wii, hell any gaming system for that matter, or the TV or DVD player , and let that raise them. The rise of all the ADD and ADHD kids in this country is bogus. 95% of those kids don’t have those problems, their parents’ just don’t want to deal with them so they get them diagnosed with those problems and get them on pills to ‘calm’ them out. They don’t need those pills!
You just need to do the responsible thing and spend time with and discipline your kid(s) when they do something wrong. Teach them the difference between right and wrong. But that won’t happen in today’s ” I have a kid, and everyone must help me raise MY kid, because I don’t want to take any sort of responsibility for my actions. ” generation.
It’s a sad state our nation is in at this point in time. “Old Fashioned Values” were VALUES for a reason. Yes some of them may need to be updated, as all things do as time changes, but they worked just fine for my parents raising me, and my grandparents raising my parents, and so on and so forth. You have a kid, a leaving breathing intelligent life-form, not a dog or cat or pet fish. Take responsibility for you actions and raise your kids right!
Grik
