Ten Signs You Are A Bad Parent
January 25, 2010 | 37 Comments
There are many signs that parents aren’t doing a good job as parents. All you have to do is look around at the millions of people living out the results of their own bad parenting to know that. Take a moment and look at these ten signs and evaluate how you are doing:
Ten Signs You Are A Bad Parent
If you don’t know where your child is right now,
you are a bad parent.
If your child is obese,
you are a bad parent.
If your child has a television in their bedroom,
you are a bad parent.
If you don’t know your child’s friends,
you are a bad parent.
If you tolerate disrespect from your child verbally or physically, you are a bad parent.
If you promise consequences for either good behavior or bad behavior and don’t deliver, you are a bad parent.
If you don’t teach your child about money,
you are a bad parent.
If you don’t have open, honest communication with your child about sex; the dangers, consequences and joy of it,
you are a bad parent.
If your grown child still lives at home and mooches off you,
you are a bad parent.
If your own life is an example of what you don’t want your child to grow up and become, you are a bad parent.
Some of you are now spewing and sputtering and shouting “yeah but” at me because your kids are great yet they have a TV in their room or are overweight or blah, blah, blah-de-blah-de-blah! Okay, you can tell yourself that, and since I don’t know you or your kid I’ll step back and give you the benefit of the doubt. But I still don’t believe you. Just because you don’t see the harmful results of your action or inaction today, doesn’t mean that you won’t later.
“But I genuinely LOVE my kids Larry!”
I’m sure you do. But we have to stop pretending that the definition of being a good parent is “loving your child.” Parenting is MORE than love. Parenting is loving your child enough to make sure you produce a responsible, productive fit adult who lives a life steeped in honesty, integrity and respect. An adult with a strong work ethic who knows how to give her word and keep it even when it isn’t convenient. A person who knows how to be financially responsible by earning, investing, saving, giving and enjoying their money. That requires communication, involvement, education, discipline and punishment. It requires work. Love without the actions to back it up doesn’t really mean much.
If you want proof about the damaging effects of these ten signs and more, read my book, Your Kids Are Your Own Fault: A Guide For Raising Responsible Productive Adults. Go to www.yourkidsareyourownfault.com
The Average American – Please Don’t Be One!
May 26, 2009 | 28 Comments
Why would I say you shouldn’t be an average American? Because the average American is fat, stupid and broke. Don’t believe me?
* The average American is fat. 65% of all adults over the age of 20 are overweight and 31% are obese.
*The average American owes $10,000 on their credit cards.
*The average American reads at a seventh grade level.
*The average American doesn’t read a non-fiction book after graduating high school.
*The average American has little or no savings. In fact, the average 50 year old American has less than $2500 saved.
*The average American spends nearly six hours a day watching television.
*The average American complains about how hard they work, yet studies tell us that they only work half the time they are on the job.
*The average American parent spends only 3.5 minutes per week in meaningful conversation with their children.
*The average American doesn’t exercise, doesn’t read, doesn’t communicate well, eats nearly twice as many calories as necessary, and is obsessed with the mundane and the superficial.
Fly the friendly, low-fat skies of United!
April 23, 2009 | 53 Comments
Let’s say you have a designated parking spot in a lot that you pay for and some guy rents the space right next to you where he parks his Ford F350 dually taking up his space and half of yours. You can’t get your doors open. Your car gets dinged every time he opens his door. Your car no longer fits in the space you pay for because his hangs out in front, in back and on both sides. Would you cry foul? Sure you would. Would you eventually go to the parking lot owner with the argument that his car is so big that it takes up his space and yours too and that isn’t fair? Yes you would. And you would expect the parking lot owner to take action on your behalf. Your argument would be if the car he drives by choice takes up two spots then maybe he should pay for two spots! And you would be right!
United Airlines has decided if you hang over into the seats around you, then you have to buy a second seat. Fat people and their support groups around the country are screaming, “Unfair!” What’s unfair about it? If you take up two seats, you pay for two seats. Just like when you take up two parking places!
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