Just Pass Me By

One of these days dads is going to get himself into trouble. I got home today early we was over staff. I saw dad was awake while I was parking the car, or maybe I woke him up after laying on my horn by accident. I went into let him know I was home and we could spend a little time together but I would need a nap after walking the dog. Last night was kind of an odd night. Well, I walked away and dad said let me feel your leg, I told him no! I know he sometimes thinking he being funny making passes at younger girls or me but this isn’t good. He in his right mind or at least appears to be he always tries to get a reaction out of me, one of these days he get a reaction one he don’t want at all.
When I got home, he was worried I was fired for not feeling well. I had told him yesterday if you keep me up all night and then I don’t sleep during the day. I am going to have troubles because I won’t be able to make it into work and could lose my job; this is why I need you up during the day. Last night dad sleep all night but I didn’t sleep well. A power surge woke me up out of a good sound sleep. I am sensitive to that stuff; sometimes I turn things off or throw the switches on the panel. I don’t mean to but it happens. Electric and I don’t always like each other. My laptop didn’t want to start today when I powered it up. I am not sure why but it just got stuck, maybe it got something to do with the memory. At least the memory if I need it for this might be cheaper than macbook memory. It could also be I still have too much in the startup menu but since I put in Window7, it’s been running better.
Dad hates computers and other things like it because he doesn’t understand it.

I have to admit I am a little dismayed here. This morning I was listening to the radio, once again I found myself wanting to yell at parents and listeners. We are so quick to throw lawsuits at companies this is not good. So the problem is that parents or some stupid advocate feels that Mc Donald’s happy meals lure children in and make their parents bring them in for unhealthy food. So they do not want the toys in the happy meal. Okay even as a child, when we went to Mc Donald they had happy meals with toys and my sister and I loved them. We wanted happy meals but my mom would sometimes say “NO” and if we threw a stink, we were not going to be eating there. We could go home and simply eat something not as nice, or get a spanking.
We need to stop placing blame on Mc Donald’s and start taking responsibility for our own action as individuals and parents, and stop looking for a way to make other be responsible for us. I am so sick of hearing on the news or radio about lawsuits against companies for childish crap. If a parent does not want it child eating a happy meal how hard is it to say no, or not today or anything. Plus the happy meal compared to when I was a child is healthy now you get choice of apples or fries, or milk or soda. This does not sound unhealthy to me, it gives healthy choices with not so healthy choices and frankly it the parents responsibility to make the child pick the healthy choice, or not to allow their child to eat only unhealthy food. This is not Mc Donald’s, Burger King, or Taco Bells job to ensure we make healthy choices on their menu; it is our responsibility. These restaurants are all fast foods so when we order we ought to be responsible and ask for calories not sue them because they might offer a child a toy with their meal. I think it great that a child can get a little toy to play with and have fond memories of their time out to dinner with their parents, or whomever they are with. The problem here is not Mc Donald’s it is the parents, who do not want to look like the bad guy because gee we can’t tell our kid no.
Kids need to learn the word no, they need to understand it okay that they do not always get what they want. They need to learn that material does not equal the amount of love their parent have for them. It like when kids get old enough to get zits and a parent makes them take
acne vitamins in hope it will help them, they might hate doing it but the parent is trying to do right by their child.
Do I agree with swatting a child on the bottom when he is being naughty and making a scene yes I do. I think parents now days are so scared to punish their child, which they simply do not. We need to teach our children and some kids need the swat on the backside and some kids simply need to be talked too. Before my mom got into drugs and alcohol, she never abused us kids. However when we were bad we got it. I can think of two times my mom spanked us kids, once when I lied to protect my sister after she got caught stealing. I was spanked because I had lied and mom found out I always took the blame for my big sister to try to keep her out of trouble. I learned something that day. I tell you what I never lied to protect my sister or anyone again. After I was spanked and mom lift us in our room after restricting both us girl. She came back a few hours later and asked me do u know why I spanked you, and you’re on restriction. She explained very clearly that lying to protect anyone was wrong, lying was not okay, and she wasn’t going to have it in the home. The other time I got spank is when I called her a bad name, as a small kid.
I earned what she did, I can think of one time she smacked me before her stupidness. Where she should have explained and spoke to me. I was an innocent child and asked a question, but looking back at it. I understand why she reacted the way she did, but it took me until I took history and learned about what happened in Germany that I understood why my mom got so angry with me. I will say I never learned the lesson that day, but my actions stuck in my mind as something that hurt and upset my mom that day.
When discipline is used correctly it will not permanently damage the child it could teach them respect. Now I am not saying spanking the kid first and then talking is the way to go. I think it best to speak and then to use something else. My mom would first, speak, than restriction and then spanking if we did not improve our behavior. It is up to the parents to shape their child not up to others. The school is there to help and educate the child but it the parent’s responsibility to teach morals and ethics.