And this behavior is present in ALL types of families. It starts when the children are young. Little girls are raised to be ladylike and respectful and to not get into trouble while little boys are left to find out on their own. Go visit someone that has a young son and daughter. The little boy might run around or jump off the bed or do something stupid while playing. What's the response?? Boys will be boys. A little girl is scolded if she has any of that behavior. The boy can go through his school aged years virtually unpunished because its thought that the only way he'll learn to be a man is through experience. The girl is pushed to excel academically and to be well-behaved and to be a homemaker to make her more pleasing to other men. I look at my cousins as an example. The oldest one, a female, is in school now and will graduate in May. Her dad throws fits if she gets a parking ticket or if her grades aren't that great. She has to work to take care of her expenses. Her parents will help her out but she has to do a lot of pleading for it. Her younger brother has been kicked out of the military, fired from two jobs, is a weedhead, and the idiot got his car stolen (the details are suspect). He lives at home and his father bought him a another car to replace the old one. What kind of ish is that?? Parents and extended family should worry less about raising a "man" or a "woman" and concentrate more on teaching a child to be an adult. The other qualities will come when they learn to be and see examples of good darn individuals.
...if I were a superhero, I'd be Had-It-Up-to-Here Woman, sneaking around grocery stores, malls, and amusement parks all over the world. With lightning speed, I'd snatch up bad azz kids and give them three swift licks with my golden switch and vanish into thin air before anyone knew what happened...
Pet Peeve of the Month:
Okay, I'll give it to you. Technically you do meet the requirements to be here. But be considerate. Just because the sign above the express lane in Wal-Mart says "20 items or less" does not mean that you should take your 19 item holding cart to the lane and hold up the rest of us who only want to buy a package of toilet paper.
Look over to your left...yeah, up in the corner. As a suggestion, you may want to take two.