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In His time....................... Wanted: A sense of peace and quiet! Social maturity 101 Watching your daughter leave right before your eyes I CAN'T SLEEP! A tree and its fruit Wishing for some culture in my family Back on the parenting soapbox! How far will the government go in telling us how to teach/raise our children? Defensive Driving March 07 April 07 May 07 June 07 July 07 August 07 September 07 October 07 November 07 December 07 January 08 February 08 March 08 April 08 May 08 June 08 July 08 
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Back on the parenting soapbox!
I read an article in the Bakersfield Californian several days ago about the owner of the empty home that was used for party central by numerous teens. The owners decision not to press charges baffled me. He stated in the article that he took the beer back, but returned several other items to them. WHAT? Okay, I look around the neighborhoods and high schools and see kids driving brand new vehicles, wearing $250.00 pairs of jeans, carrying designer handbags and think...what are they going to want when they graduate? Hold these kids accountable for their actions! So they won't like you, who cares! They WILL get over it, and if not......who cares! I am so incredibly fed up with parents NOT parenting, allowing their relationship with their kids to be that of a buddy and not a parent! No wonder our society is the way it is! Okay, I'm done................for now. Thanks for reading and putting up with my "venting". 1 comments from 1 users
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posted by
sunnica
on Mar 12, 2008 at 12:40 PM
Vent away. I hear you, believe me. I've always been of the mind that you get certain things at certain ages: you don't get a phone at 10 -- you don't get a car at 13 -- etc. Many times parents feel like they are making up for some other shortcoming in the kid's life (or failure in the parent's life). But what they are doing is setting up the child for disappointment further down the road. The real world doesn't run in the manner these kids are accustomed. That's one reason why so many houses are in foreclosure: they bought the huge house they felt that they "deserved" based on the lifestyle they were accustomed to -- and then what? Then they couldn't pay for it, that's what!!! The other day, my husband and I were driving beside a lifted, 4-door, gorgeous Ford F-350. OMG! The "kids" driving it were in their 20s with a toddler in the backseat. What a great way to begin a marriage and family: in debt. I sincerely hope there's room on that soapbox for two. ~d.
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