A link would help.
Here’s the link:
How did this make the news?
Many of today’s families have come under the strain and continuous anti-family onslaught from the media and society. However, the parents are often just as much to blame for following those trends and not making the home a safe haven for raising children. Kids just don’t all of a sudden go ‘bad’. I don’t know the full story, but maybe the father should have come ‘off his perch’ when the kids were being groomed for life. Something major has gone wrong if three kids are on the verge of their fifth divorce!
This is what cultural Marxism results in.
Like the 27-year-old idiot I saw on TV SKATE-BOARDING with what looked like other neighborhood 12 year olds.
He had a full beard and a growing beer-belly, and you could just hear the disappointment in the fathers voice as he recorded his idiot son's biggest effort of the day: skateboarding down a hill on their street "instead of looking for a job"
The idiot son crashed at the bottom of the hill and since he is not a 12 year old he broke several bones and ended up in the hospital
Imagine how David Petraeus’ father feels right about now.
The world sucks, take some responsibility for not doing your best. If every parent did their best, there would be fewer crimes, and smaller prison populations. And maybe Barkie would not have been raped into a socialist by Frank Marshall.
While it's not difficult to understand your bitterness it's clear you've missed a few things. Going off to some school is not preparation for life.
A real education involves teaching humility in our assessment of ourselves and gratitude for the sacrifices of others on our behalf, closely related to that is respect for those who gone before us and what they have produced.
Having to work for what we have teaches appreciation for its true cost. Finally, teaching your children that there is a God that looks on and holds us responsible for our actions.
Humility, respect, gratitude, reverence for the sacred....teach your children these things and they'll be educated for life and all else will follow. Fail and you will most certainly be bitterly disappointed.
Too little, too late.
My 14 year old laments that he is not allowed to do things that other kids do. He complains that he has to do chores around the house. He whines because we insist that he does (and re-does) his homework until he gets it right. He dislikes the fact that we insist on supervising most of what he does. He moans that he’s only allowed to do a fraction of what the other kids do. And, most of all, he hates it when he does something inappropriate and receives a consequence.
Being tough on your kids now pays big dividends in the future. My parents did it with me. Their parents did it with them. Too many kids grow up with a “free-ride” mentality and carry that over into adulthood.
People my age (Gen X) and even people my parent’s age sometimes fail to understand that YOU HAVE TO PASS YOUR VALUES ON TO YOUR CHILDREN, and that is HARD and sometimes UNPLEASANT. You can’t be wrapped up in a career or social life and expect to raise kids that grow up as responsible adults. The babysitter won’t teach them. The day care center won’t teach them, and the schools for damn sure won’t teach them.
The easy way that the world offers creeps in at every opportunity. You have to put all your fingers and toes in the dike to keep your kids on the right path. You have to stay on top of EVERYTHING, and that is a full-time job.
“Hands off” parenting produces liberal children who are often unable to cope with life. A huge price to pay for a “fun” childhood.
Good for this man. It’s about time he and his wife go about their own lives and live and enjoy what they have worked for. Their children (adults)sound selfish, self-absorbed and probably don’t know a damned thing about anything outside their own whiny lives.
These parents have done all they can. It’s up to them now to make it on their own and they will now KNOWING their parents are finished listening to their whining and crying.
Now the rubber meets the road. Good job parents. Go out and enjoy what you have worked for. Your kids will survive one way or another but...that’s THEIR choosing.
You are wise to cut the strings.
In what language is that written? Once I find out then it should be a simple matter of using an online translator.
Sorry, admiral, it your fault. Parenting is not for the weak of heart. Fun to make but hard to raise.
What did the older generation teach their children? Not much. Not much at all. They were on autopilot. Now the older generations want to complain. Too late, gramps. You had you chance for over 50 years and you sat on your collective asses. The younger generations can barely tie their own shoes as no skills whatsoever were passed down. Life was good after WWII so no one bothered to raise those little suburbian darlings. No one bothered to teach them.
he is a military officer with speaking to his own kids as if they were his subordinates on a ship. is there any wonder that they feel alienated from him? they make life decisions without his advice ; does anyone here wonder why they do that?
he has been doing this for many years. it’s also likely that he’s a very angry and violent man.
This is the inevitable result of selfish decisions, which is at the heart of the “liberal” mentality. And who really suffers the most from this liberal mentality? The children of course, the exact same group of people that liberals portend to support with all of their selfish policies.
JoMa