post about revolution somewhere had me thinking about how the babies are key to any change..being out here in europe I see a lot of fat, apathetic kids with little/no personal direction save to follow the path of least resistance - like electricity. kids still do things & get up to stuff but it seems as though as they're influenced as much by a desire for minimum hassle as the desire to improve themselves.

so of course the discussion turns to parents and this was/is my main point of contention..subject line's misleading in a way but a major imbalance I see out in Western society is that a lot of parents just want their kids to LIKE them.

feed your kids whatever they ask for, drop them off at a fat/diet camp for the summer and stop at mcdonalds on the way home..all the sht I used to find shocking when I first came out here starts to make sense.

I know I'm generalising and that I can't really speak on it until I'm faced with the challenge of parenting..but how do you respect a parents that doesn't respect themselves though? damn near anything goes for kids today because a lot of parents would rather be 'dug' than admired and the cycle continues.

america's particularly interesting because y'all are so inspiringly shameless..I feel like many americans are raised to expect & take what they want NOW on a day to day basis - not even to feel guilty about that but to be assertive & complain when you don't get it when/how you want it.


I guess the question is:

as a parent, how do you balance it so that your kids love you, respect you, dig you and are comfortable enough with you to both listen/learn & speak/teach? does anybody actually have the physical hours in the day for their kids anymore? seems almost like a lost art.
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