Posted on 06/16/2024 9:23:54 PM PDT by NetAddicted
It’s Father’s Day. While I’d never thought that Bill Maher would have a good message for this special day for dads who are denigrated, mocked, and viewed as less than by angry feminists and deranged leftists, the HBO host, who often mocked traditional values throughout his career, appears to yearn for a return of conventional parenting. Specifically, Maher wants a return of the ‘trad dad.’ He wants fathers to have permission to be dads again.
One knock on Maher is that he doesn’t have kids or want them.
“Yeah, I don’t give b**wjobs either, but I can tell when someone is doing it wrong,” he quipped. The comedian said he may not have kids, but he sits next to yours at restaurants, and it's chaos. Children are ramming shopping carts into other people and receiving no discipline. Parents overindulging their children isn’t a new topic, as Maher noted the stages of evolution in this debate. Trophy syndrome appeared in 1993, followed by helicopter parents, then the bulldozer parent, and finally gentle parenting, where parents serve their kids like the butler.
The HBO host quipped that the new fad of parenting is not doing to kids what you wouldn’t have done to you. That’s stupid. Maher noted that he doesn’t want to be stripped down and plopped in a tub, but that’s called ‘bath time’ as a baby. Discipline is not the enemy, and the lack of it and the parenting involved in preparing your youngster for leaving the nest has created a generation of soft, whiny, selfish brats with mental health issues. It’s making both parent and child miserable...
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GOD is raising up unlikely voices (like Bill Maher) in these challenging times — to speak the truth.
The LORD our GOD is the ultimate loving Father, and He understands the concept of fathering (since after all He created it). Praise Him!
Shopping now is hazardous. Bored, hungry kids, angry at their day care dependent mothers, with zero situational awareness plowing through
With a little tinkering, what you just said would make a fine Haiku.
Ty
I saw it - Maher was spot on... good for him for speaking up...
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