April 3, 2012
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Good or Bad
It never ceases to amaze me how nature attempts to protect our kids from us while they are growing up. They start off by being birthed with a completely different language. This is meant to give them a couple of years head start before we contaminate them with our gooder grammar.
While still infants they use a natural defense mechanism of continual bowel release and dispersement which can be very effective on certain of our timid species. This is meant to keep us at arms lenght from them. Then there is the incessant crying which is meant to be a catalyst and unnerve many of us in the hope we might abandon them in the local pine preserve for the wolves to raise. This becomes a love and hate issue.
If we survive their terrible “twos” and have resisted not eating them, then there occurs a few years of calm and serenity. It is during these years that our young children study us! They continuously ask questions and debate with us. They’re looking for flaws and weaknesses!
Then they reach their teens and go rabid. They roam continually looking for things that are not there and blaming you for hiding whatever it is they can’t remember they lost. They become lost in their mirrors as they try to correct nature’s achievements with their own fashionable absurdities. They don’t like what they look like, who they are, who you are or even more confusing…..what they are! They are maturing.
Through all their emotional and biological tirades, if we can but teach them one basic premise…..‘right from wrong‘…..then we have succeeded.
Your greatest hope and success will be the day they finally walk out your front door to take on the world or just lay down on the sidewalk and wait for the SWAT team to show up.
Comments (4)
Hi Charlie, lol We raised three kids, but there were not wolves around to handle for us. I considered Boarding School for my son, but I was too poor. lol
It is a miracle any of us walk out the door without the Swat team waiting for us. It is tough raising kids, especially if you want them to know the difference between right and wrong and choose right most of the time.
I sure wish I could do some do overs. lol
frank
Absolutely hilarious. True to the very last bit. I am currently raising a 13 yr old whom believes everything is always his fault, or at least its NOT his fault, but we blame him anyways. He has a younger brother who is of course, by his opinion dumber and so much more childish then he EVER was at the same age… Then we add in the constant word trends such as “Epic” or “Fail” that I swear, if I hear one more time I will sow his mouth shut for the rest of his life.. That or his ears.
Thank you for sharing this… 
@ANVRSADDAY - You are so right! Raised four of them and I’m now overjoyed at the grief they’re going thru with their own.
@ObscuredRendition - Beer helps.