Hello!!
so i'm totally not a parent - but i have great parents who love me and have raised me extremely well :) and i have questions about how OTHER parents raise their children. so here's a "teenager's" take on parenting.
1. why the crap can't they jump in puddles and get muddy and get paint all over their faces? ya, you have to wash them up, and maybe you don't feel like it but for real?!?!?!! kids are messy. and who could tell me to my face that they don't wish they could roll around on the ground in mud and eat bugs and get away w/ it?! maybe that's just me.
2. Why are you always the one cleaning up their crap after asking them 234567 thousand times to do it themselves? PFT. punish them!!! "you are sitting in your chair at the table until you tell me you're cleaning up your toys. they are not mine, i did not make the mess- i am not cleaning them up. you tell me when you're ready." then don't reward them w/ ice cream or a new dress. they're reward is not sitting in a hard un-comfy kitchen chair for another hour. maybe i'm an awful person. but heck- i'm not cleaning up a huge nasty mess that i didn't make when i feed, bathe, love on, provide for, and buy those mess-making toys for the kid. not my job.
don't wanna vacuum the kitchen? you can eat your dinner off that dirty floor. a little dirt never hurt. (at this point i'm thinkin like 7-13 yr-old. not infant / toddler) do that, then tell me it's fine and doesn't need vacuuming.
boom roasted.
3. you don't wanna eat your peas?! sit there till you do. when i was a kid i spent hours at the dinner table- no joke. my momma put me there and let me scream for 10 min until i stopped and and then she left me and i sat there for 3 hours until i ate whatever it was. one time i sat there till bed time. went to bed- then sat there the next morning. yep. my momma's awesome!!!!!!
4. No, it doesn't make you a bad parent if your kid runs into a hotel room and screams "hooommmmeee!!!!" or the only way you can make them happy at 3 am is a rice krispy treat and cartoons, or you spank them cuz you've just had enough of telling them no over and over and over and your patience is gone. it's OK. anyone worth listening to (advice on parenting -wise) will tell you the same- if that's what it takes to get your point across, or get them to stop crying, or make them happy, or get a smile out of a tear-streaked face; then that's what you should be doing.
there's really no point to this, and i have no wise words about parenting to share. but that is a brief "glimpse" of what i think. lol.
<3
-Rae
PS! check out my friends blog!
"laughlivedream.com"
so i'm totally not a parent - but i have great parents who love me and have raised me extremely well :) and i have questions about how OTHER parents raise their children. so here's a "teenager's" take on parenting.
1. why the crap can't they jump in puddles and get muddy and get paint all over their faces? ya, you have to wash them up, and maybe you don't feel like it but for real?!?!?!! kids are messy. and who could tell me to my face that they don't wish they could roll around on the ground in mud and eat bugs and get away w/ it?! maybe that's just me.
2. Why are you always the one cleaning up their crap after asking them 234567 thousand times to do it themselves? PFT. punish them!!! "you are sitting in your chair at the table until you tell me you're cleaning up your toys. they are not mine, i did not make the mess- i am not cleaning them up. you tell me when you're ready." then don't reward them w/ ice cream or a new dress. they're reward is not sitting in a hard un-comfy kitchen chair for another hour. maybe i'm an awful person. but heck- i'm not cleaning up a huge nasty mess that i didn't make when i feed, bathe, love on, provide for, and buy those mess-making toys for the kid. not my job.
don't wanna vacuum the kitchen? you can eat your dinner off that dirty floor. a little dirt never hurt. (at this point i'm thinkin like 7-13 yr-old. not infant / toddler) do that, then tell me it's fine and doesn't need vacuuming.
boom roasted.
3. you don't wanna eat your peas?! sit there till you do. when i was a kid i spent hours at the dinner table- no joke. my momma put me there and let me scream for 10 min until i stopped and and then she left me and i sat there for 3 hours until i ate whatever it was. one time i sat there till bed time. went to bed- then sat there the next morning. yep. my momma's awesome!!!!!!
4. No, it doesn't make you a bad parent if your kid runs into a hotel room and screams "hooommmmeee!!!!" or the only way you can make them happy at 3 am is a rice krispy treat and cartoons, or you spank them cuz you've just had enough of telling them no over and over and over and your patience is gone. it's OK. anyone worth listening to (advice on parenting -wise) will tell you the same- if that's what it takes to get your point across, or get them to stop crying, or make them happy, or get a smile out of a tear-streaked face; then that's what you should be doing.
there's really no point to this, and i have no wise words about parenting to share. but that is a brief "glimpse" of what i think. lol.
<3
-Rae
PS! check out my friends blog!
"laughlivedream.com"
HAHAHAHAHAHA you are ridiculous. 'boom roasted' . i about died laughing. thanks for sharing. i like the viewpoints of a teenager. i'd like to hear more about how you think parents should raise kids. maybe even some serious stuff about raising kiddos through some of the hard years. great post. thanks for the laugh
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