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Can we reconsider blaming children?

Where are the parents?

I mean really.

I teach Middle school English. WE go through Shakespeare. Taming of the Shrew and Romeo and Juliet, for instance, The first thing the girls want to know is why would they want their father involved in choosing a mate? That’s what Juliet said. Catherine obeyed.

I can deal with the boys. They ask the same question. I present it to them as a matter of their paternity, do they want their future daughter coming home with an idiot who can’t take care of her, and have the daughter back in the house at age 28 with kids? The light bulb goes on. The whole classroom tunes in. Now the boys are thinking like dads.

This is what they need in order to get them to tune in to what a nice girl expects and what her fearsome father expects.

silly girls are easy and they, unless mentally challenged, so not have fearsome fathers.

Girls have chosen cute, outlaw, idiots for centuries, from the beginning of time. they need guidance and direction.

That’s a parent’s tough job. Teaching her how to discern. And it starts in preschool, before even. When we go, as parents, to a friend’s house and the three year old girl does not like that creepy guy whom everyone says is so funny and great, let her not like him.

And find some nice friends.

Then she can, when she’s twenty, figure out that it’s ok to say, hey he’s creepy let
s get out of here.

Teach her how to spend money. And by example not by punishing her with a stupid job, unless that’s what she wants to do. Show her how to spend without going into savings and credit.

WE expect kids to take the responsibility here, they are not responsible.

Most, by a vast margin, of adults live paycheck to paycheck in this country. Is that the fault of kids?

WE can’t even blame the government because the government is by the people and for the people.

they take taxes, but we are letting this happen.