Taking Responsibility
Occasionally, I get into super nanny, even though realistically she doesn’t do that many things, but somehow makes a pretty significant difference. The other night, she was working with a family that had 10 kids, 10 freaking kids! And the mom was going for 12, even though she couldn’t actually handle the 10 she already had. How does that make sense? Dad was a truck driver, so he was gone for 3 4 days at a time. The older kids helped out a lot, which is great. I mean it’s great when the family can work as a family. But at the same point in time, obviously, they were having issues being on super nanny and all. The kids weren’t finding the most effective diet pill underage, they weren’t smoking, they weren’t drinking, they weren’t doing other drugs, they weren’t really getting in trouble at school, so some would say not so bad. But at the same point, the oldest kid, who was 15, was thinking about running away from home, because he couldn’t handle it. I mean it wasn’t just a matter of the family working together. The mom would actually get mad at the older kids if they were not parenting their younger siblings! That is not their job! If the older kids babysat every once in a while, not a big deal. If the mom told the other kids while I’m gone, this person is in charge, not a big deal. People in smaller families do it all the time, it teaches some level of responsibility, and teenagers deal with it. But when you choose to have kids, especially that many, you cannot push your parental responsibilities onto somebody else just because you don’t feel like dealing with it, especially kids. It’s like even the most effective diet pill cannot do the job for you. You have to take responsibility. The same goes for kids. You cannot expect the schools or someone else to raise your kids for you. They help, but the majority of it is YOUR JOB.No comments:
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