STEP ONE: Fix the Family.
What is wrong with it, you may ask?
1. Working Mothers.
There's nothing wrong with it if the father can't work, but someone needs to be there raising the kids. Someone that isn't being paid to do it.
2.Hollywood poisoning.
The media is anti-family. It shows sex outside marriage, divorce, substance abuse, and other negative behaviors as acceptable when it's really not.
3. Credit Cards.
Going into debt is not a good idea. The parents get a few credit cards and go crazy. Then they can't pay for it, argue over whose fault it is, and divorce when the marriage would have been fine otherwise. If the flat-screen is that important, you can save up for a few months.
4. Anything with a screen.
I love the internet, movies, texting, and my old-school Gameboy Color as much as the next teenager, but it really is not conducive to my family life. Where we could be talking, playing a board game, or doing something constructive together, we waste away in front of screens. It diminishe the ability to relate to living, breathing, right-in-front-of-you people. And don't even get me started on the drug that is pornography. (But you should in the future.)
5. The Mr. Rogers Complex
Some parents - make that a lot of parents feel guilty saying "no" to their children. This is bad. If Mommy and Daddy spoil them, they won't know how to properly deal with themselves when they fail their math test or can't get the "respect" they're looking for. The "Mr. Rogers Complex," as I call it, is when people feel like they are entitled to anything and/or everything they want "just because they're them." Kids think they should get stuff without working for it. Or that they should get the A instead of the C because "they worked so hard." If they had really wanted the A, they would have worked harder.
STEP TWO, or additions to STEP ONE soon to follow.
i agree with you intentions but this straight forward approach is just going to make those who dont want to all the more stubborn. I like your ideas but unfortunatly I believe there was a section in the bible reffering to a time when good christian familys would be ridiculed and persecuted for their beliefs, I'm afraid that time may come to soon.(>
If one's beliefs are the right ones, it's all the more reason to be straightforward and tell them to anyone who will listen. And besides, if someone really cares about their families or America enough, they will do anything necessary to make it go the way it should. That's another problem: people not caring enough about others.
true(>
You have an ideal and a vision of what you would like YOUR family to be like. That is nice, and I hope you come close enough to that ideal to make you happy, but why should the rest of us?
Do you really want to take our choice? Every problem you listed is a freedom. Perhaps those are good choices and YOU should make them for yourself.
Doing anything on a nationwide basis about any of them would make America less free. Is that what you want?
To see a world in a grain of sand
And a heaven in a wild flower,
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand
And eternity in an hour.
-William Blake
I'm not saying that anyone HAS to do this. In fact, I don't want the government to do any of this either. I'm just saying that this is ideal. And if anyone makes the wrong choices, they have to deal with the consequences.
The only thing I really agree with is the Mr. Rogers complex. Where'd you get that name anyway? (I know the show, that's not what I mean)
Let's face it, a family that isn't going to talk won't talk regardless of the amount of electronic devises in the house. We watch a fair amount of tv at my house, but talk while watching.
And, if you try and raise kids, having been one, do you really think it will make their lives easier if you try and talk to them and have family nights and all that? Peer-pressure is a powerful thing.
Credit Cards-stupid people do stupid things. It doesn't matter if they're married.
Hollywood- the movie business is a business. The reason those types of movies are popular is because people like them. Hollywood didn't create the climate, the climate created Hollywood.
Working Mothers- People can work and pay attention to their family.
"-bah!! Pardon the "bah!" I feel several "bahs!", but out of courtesy I only say one."
H.P. Lovecraft
Mr. Rogers always said that "you're special just because you're you."
Ah. Yeah, I hate that whole 'everything my kid does is wonderful' sentiment.
"-bah!! Pardon the "bah!" I feel several "bahs!", but out of courtesy I only say one."
H.P. Lovecraft
Maxine I believe that is important for one parent to be home with the kids if they are interactive with them. I know several stay at home dads that are doing a great job.
I understand your suggestions but I don't understand how they would "make America number 1 again and whose to say we are not the greatest country right now?
Government has no other end, but the preservation of property. - John Locke
whose to say we are not the greatest country right now?
"Every day we're told that we live in the greatest country on earth. And it's always stated as an undeniable fact: Leos were born between July 23 and August 22, fitted queen-size sheets measure sixty by eighty inches, and America is the greatest country on earth. Having grown up with this in our ears, it's startling to realize that other countries have nationalistic slogans of their own, none of which are "We're number two!""
-David Sedaris
"What a crazy random happenstance!"
Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog
Read my Blog!
I disagree. I don't think the family is the real problem. I think its the egotistical manner with which the government steps on the toes of other countries that sets a bad example. As a culture, we lack respect for other cultures.
Living is easy with eyes closed, misunderstanding all you see.