I shouldn’t post this, and you shouldn’t read it…

Hey there folks! Okay….I’m ranting! Look away now if you don’t want to read a rant. How many people are so sick of the perfection game. Raise your hand if you can’t read another post on Facebook about someone’s perfect life, or read another article about how to be a better wife, mom, friend, and still get dinner on the table by 6:00 o’clock. I still do not understand how these people actually think anyone believes them. Hey…”perfect” people…everyone knows you’re NOT! You have no one fooled at all. 100% of people can see through your “perfect” facebook shit, and your perfect “my life is better than yours” bullshit. How about this…..everyone has the right life that is exactly perfect for them. That’s it! And if more people would stop with the “perfect” facade, then it would be much easier to connect on a human level. Especially mom’s. It’s a hard job raising decent people for society. We have a lot of people judging the way we do it. You have the folks that don’t have kids yet, and always say, “when I have kids I wouldn’t let them act like that.” …Oh really ?…um, be careful what you say in front of other people because that shit is coming back to haunt you! I always enjoy the ones in the store that judge you even though they are looking at a snap shot of a situation. Look, just like grown up people…little people have shitty days too. Well…sometimes those shitty days coincide with your shopping trip and as you are walking through the store trying to get your groceries, your kid is having a melt down. I love it when I either get the “you should beat that kid” look…or the “what did you do to that kid?” look. How about NOTHING!!! They are just being shitty today. Maybe they were up most of the night  because they had a nightmare and pretty much got NO sleep which meant I got NO sleep which put us both in really crappy moods, yet we still had to go to the store because life does not stop just because I didn’t get any sleep. It always makes me wonder about someone when they say they hate kids. OKay listen…I’m not judging anyone here….some people do not want kids, or just don’t like kids and that is their choice. Just take a second though and remember that you were one! and somebody somewhere hated you too just because you were too short to reach shit and you acted like a crazy person. (all kids are crazy, all percent of the time)… Then you grew up, learned some self control, and now you hate kids. OKay!! As a mom….I have to raise these people with morals, and values, and make sure they never make bad choices, (because according to society it is MY fault if they make bad choices and do bad things.) Well that’s great but when does their personality and who they are come into play here. When is it considered the time for a person to stop looking at what their parents did or did not do and start taking responsibility for themselves? One of the most widely used statements that annoys the friggin crap out of me is “kids today are so much worse than they used to be.” Okay…stop for just a damn minute and think about what a stupid idea that is. It’s funny when people say this because it’s absolutely untrue on every level. Since the beginning of time, there has been shitty people. If you look back through history…people have been killing each other and doing shitty things since forever. There was never a time in history that the world was super safe and people were just all nice all the time. There have always been wars, and have always been crazy people doing crazy things. NO different than now. There is always hope for a better tomorrow, but let’s be real shall we.  My grandmother always said…kids today are so bad, but I guarantee her grandmother said the same thing to her and her grandmother to her… And so on and so on. Because we grow up and WE mature and all of a sudden start to act like normal people and forget the stupid shit we were doing when we were 12. So we say….oh kids today are so bad. It’s just not true. They are no worse than they have ever been. A 12 year old acts like a fucking 12 year old. What makes them different is their personality. It has NOTHING to do with the time we live in. Guess what…when I was kid, my grandmother thought we were so spoiled because we had record players. They were new age things that kids shouldn’t have, in her opinion. When she was young…..her grandmother would have never thought it was proper to drive an automobile. She believed that kids were spoiled with all that new age automobile crap. I had a woman tell me that the reason kids are so bad today is because people don’t beat them anymore. My response to that was: How the fuck do you know if people are or are not beating their kids? and secondly…how the fuck do you even remotely think that beating someone is making them good? This “theory” makes no sense to me. There are still a wide range of folks that believe in that way of discipline. Just look at facebook!! O.O It’s just a ridiculous notion to think that one way is the way for everybody. We live on a big planet here and you have NO idea how other people are raising their kids. So to say “kids today are so bad” holds absolutely no validity. How can anyone know what is going on in someone else’s home? I have 4 kids, and they are all completely different. Why would I treat them exactly the same when they are NOT exactly the same people? I didn’t want to make this a post about disciplining children because I truly believe that each person has to decide on that for themselves. Whatever works for one person may not work for another, but DO NOT look at me in a store because my kid is having a friggin moment like I need to beat my kid! Because then I will look at you like FUCK YOU!!! okay…so rant over…..bring on the comments!! Let’s do this…

 

I recently read an AMAZING post that Lucy’s Football wrote about Mr. Rogers here!  While I was reading and commenting on this post, a fellow blogger Neuronotes- link here,  left these comments which embody exactly what I am trying to say….or rant about! Check it out…

 

“I see no hope for the future of our people if they are dependent on
frivolous youth of today, for certainly all youth are reckless beyond
words… When I was young, we were taught to be discreet and
respectful of elders, but the present youth are exceedingly wise
[disrespectful] and impatient of restraint”
~Hesiod, 8th century BC

“What is happening to our young people? They disrespect their elders,
they disobey their parents. They ignore the law.
They riot in the streets inflamed with wild notions.
Their morals are decaying. What is to become of them?”
~Plato, 5th century BC

“The children now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for
authority, they show disrespect to their elders…. They no longer
rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents,
chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their
legs, and are tyrants over their teachers.”
~Socrates, 5th century BC

“The world is passing through troublous times. The young people of
today think of nothing but themselves. They have no reverence for
parents or old age. They are impatient of all restraint. They talk as
if they knew everything, and what passes for wisdom with us is
foolishness with them. As for the girls, they are forward, immodest
and unladylike in speech, behavior and dress.”
~Peter the Hermit, 13th Century AD