Thursday, October 1, 2009

Job opportunity for me

I have recently come across a job opportunity for a waitress at a strip club. I am kinda excited about the prospects for good tips and am not uncomfortable with the sex industry or anything of the sort. This could end up really fun or really wrong lol.

Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Spare the Rod and Spoil the Child

As a very liberal minded mother of 3 my opinion on spanking has changed over the years. Nine years ago when I was pregnant with my first daughter I thought that there is nothing a child of mine could do to make me want to spank them (I also thought I wouldn’t let them watch TV LOL). Then when my beautiful Skylar came into the world, she was so precious and so perfect in every way I couldn’t in a thousand years imagine laying a hand on her out of anger. Than the terrible two’s hit!

All of a sudden my perfect baby girl has turned into a little rebellious monster with a mind of her own. Lucky for me this was around the time that the nanny shows were big (Nanny 911 and Super Nanny). I struggled to follow their advice, which was to put the child in time out… that worked… until Skylar realized she can get up from time out and I would grab her and put her back. “Great!” she thought “a new game!”.

Eventually, and my memory is failing me on exactly why I lost my temper on this particular day but natural instinct took me over and I smacked Skylar’s hand. We both cried for a while, but guess what? It worked. Now like everything else in this world moderation is the key, I am by no means saying one should spank their child for every naughty thing they do, nor am I advocating losing one’s temper on a small child but let’s take a look at some facts about spanking.

For the first half of the Twentieth century spanking children was so excepted that they allowed teachers to paddle our children, now that may have been a bit much because as we all know not everyone deals well with that kind of power and many teachers took advantage of this power, leading to the first generation of kids to grow up vowing not to treat their children the way they were raised. Subsequently this led to a generation of people who raised there children without raising their hands in anger.

Usually it was the father’s role to discipline. Remember those haunting words from your childhood “just wait till your father gets home!”? Those seven words were enough to send a shiver up even the toughest kid’s spine. So in modern day when you take the father out of the equation as is the case in a lot of families over the last 30 years the rod has been seriously spared by single mother’s out of guilt, lack of time and or wanting to be the child’s friend. All this has done in my opinion is created a generation of disrespectful grown children who feel entitled to whatever they want.

In conclusion it is our responsibility to teach our children about consequences to their actions. If we don’t then the police will.