“Wonderful, God fearing parents can do all the right things, but that doesn’t guarantee their kid won’t go off to college sober and come back the same way.”
This was my thought after reading the post about the six major influences. Yes, you can control all those things when they’re home, but what happens when you send them off to indoctrination centers whose goals appear to be to undo everything their students have ever been taught?
I must say, as perhaps among the minority here, that I find it disturbing to learn of so many self-righteous people here.
Ted Koppel was no more my favorite than Obama is now, and everyone around here must now how much I detest that cretin.
But some of the shit I’m reading on this thread about child-rearing simply leaves me speechless. It borders on cruel and nearly hateful. And we FReepers are better than this, I’m positive.
Please, folks...don’t assume that your good fortune is an indictment on someone else’s bad parenting. Not all good kids come from good parents and not all bad kids come from bad parents. If it were that simple, nearly all our kids would be good, don’t you think?
My only child turned out to be a pretty good kid. I don’t say that to boast; I say it out of pure RELIEF. He didn’t have some superior upbringing; I did the best I could and I hit the jackpot.
But that does not mean that some other parent, who cared as much and tried so hard to do the right things, was inferior. It merely means that I had some heavenly help.