Stuck in Antarctica

[midcan5]

"When I was single and saw parents losing it with their kids, I used to frown at them. I'll never be like that, I promised myself. But single people are pathetically naive. They don't know what it's like to spend fourteen consecutive hours with a child. They don't understand how that massive span of time allows for every single possible human emotion to be bared: anger, fear, jealousy, love ... all of it. More to the point, they don't realize what little assholes kids can be. They have no idea. When I was in middle school, they brought in a lady who had traveled to the South Pole to speak to us. She told us that, at one point during the trip, she became so cold and so desperate for food that she ate an entire stick of butter. We all were disgusted. But she was like, "Yeah, well, if you had been at the South Pole, you would have had butter for dinner too." Parenting is similar in that you end up acting in ways that your younger self would have found repellent because the circumstances overwhelm you. What I'm basically saying is that having kids is like being stuck in Antarctica."

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[whitehall]

So much from the self centered generation. It's all about me.

 

[midcan5]

So much from the self centered generation. It's all about me.

"I don't remember my dad ever smacking me. He may have yelled a few times, but nothing that dramatic. Why was I so much worse of a parent? Why didn't my kid respect and fear me the way I respected and feared my old man? Why did my children always require one more minute of patience than I had? And why was I losing my shit at a 5-year-old for acting like a 5-year-old?" from article

I think this guy thinks too much, modern parents think a five year is a rational being and conversation the cure for bad behavior. Children are children and having raised a few, I think something is wrong with a child who insists on being attended to immediately. Something is also wrong with a parent who can't manage this sensibly. My brothers and I still laugh at the beatings dad gave us because we were fighting and carrying on with each other. It obviously didn't work as we still got in to trouble, but I bet my dad never once puzzled over the punches or belt wounds. Sounds kinda cruel now, but it was a different time and a different perspective.

PS After finally finishing this piece I have to put on my Freud cap and wonder if this girl is not a bit of a psychopath? The wife's comments were funny and more to the point.

 

[whitehall]

I find it amusing that the pop culture libs today think they invented everything from pregnancy to fatherhood and they never stop whining about how inconvenienced they sometimes get.