was it always like this?

since redonning my position as martial arts instructor to the masses it has once again occurred to me that although i am not a parent myself, i may make a better one than the many i have contact with regularly. now this is not to say that any of them are bad parents; at heart i believe that they try to do what they feel is best...the sad part is that they usually only end up doing what is easiest. this is detrimental not only to their children but also to their relationship with them.

in short: kids are punks.

they complain and whine and back talk and cry and all other manner of aggravating actions. why is this? who the hell decided that parenting was about giving your children the world without also giving them a means to make sense of it?? i told a child recently "you can't learn if your mouth is open and your eyes and ears are closed" and i stand by my statement. children should learn early on that the way to get what you want is to learn from the people that already have it or have had it, not to bitch and moan all day until another person's will breaks and they give in. put simply, life is tough; you will fall down, you will be cut, you will feel pain and kids should be taught that those feelings are okay, they are natural to help with learning. the problem is nobody wants to be tough anymore, everyone wants the easy way out; everybody has to win.

BULLSHIT! teach your kids to fall down, get back up again and wipe away the tears that shouldn't even be there unless they were broken up or bleeding...profusely. i've decided that kids are pansies because their parents are pansies. kids expect you to give them what they want because their parents lack enough of a backbone to ever tell them "no". 

GIVE ME YOUR TIRED, YOUR POOR

YOUR HUDDLED MASSES YEARNING TO BREATE FREE,

AND I WILL TOUGHEN THE LITTLE BASTARDS UP

AND TEACH THEM WHAT RESPECT MEANS.