Rants, Raves, and Redundancies

If you don’t have children, have never had children and never plan on having children.. then please do myself and others who are parents the courtesy of not telling us how to raise our children.

Christ. (This *is* a rant now, so bear with me while I let off heavy steam)

If I have to be subjected to so-called child rearing specialists (no degree, these people are from the school of “I know it all” and have their child rearing degree in “Because I’m smarter than you, obviously”) then I hope they can take the backlash.

To me, it would be like me trying to tell the airline pilot how to fly his jetliner… or telling the brain surgeon that, “Oh hey.. you’re doing it wrong!” Give me a break people.

How the hell are some people so self centered that they believe they know all about child rearing and that if a child acts like a CHILD on some occasions (shock.. they tend to do some things that parents and other adults DO NOT LIKE) doesn’t mean the parents have failed their children and failed as parents.. and it sure as hell doesn’t mean that the kids run ramshod over any and all authority or that they are ‘brats’.

I have to wonder if these same people that bitch on and on about ‘unruly’ children are the same ones that empathetically state that “spanking your children is WRONG!” because if they are, I would genuinely like to know what their advice would be to parents to get their children to act as though they are ’successful’ at raising them. Tell me please!… as I would not want to fail as a parent.

Seriously. For those of us that actually HAVE children and who do everything from grounding, taking favorite toys/games away and on occasion and during serious transgressions have actually spanked our children… what should *we* do so our children act perfectly? Hmmm..? I’m dying to learn!

It means quite simply, that they are kids and not smaller versions of adults.

I really apologize for ripping like this, but honestly… it’s maddening that some people in this world believe that a parent has total and complete control over their children at all times.

Hell, my husband is 41 and *still* has moments where he does something embarrassing out in public… yet some expect a three year old to be perfect?

Yeah. I’ll have some of whatever the people that think that are having. I could use a dose of NON-reality.

/Rant over