The Exhorter 11/26/2006 How to be a Lousy Parent 1. Discipline your children only when you lose your temper. Let them get away with anything until youre fed up; then in a spirit of hostility and anger, let �em have it! Blow your top, holler, get wild, clobber then and really make a brawl out of it. The children will get a bang out of you. 2. Dont make yourself approachable, you might have to listen and reason with them. If you get too chummy, theyll want to talk things over with you. And whos got time to waste with kids? Youve got more important things to do. 3. If theyve done wrong, never let them forget it. Keep rubbing it in; theyll loathe you for it. A father was telling me in front of his son about the trouble the boy had gotten into 5 years earlier when he was 13. The boy was ashamed and disgusted. When the father went to answer the phone, the son said in an undertone, He makes me sick. I felt like saying, Me, too! 4. Give your children all the spending money they want; dont make them earn it. Money in large quantities is an acceptable substitute for love. After awhile they will only want your money and couldnt care less about you. Its something like starving them on creampuffs. 5. Compare your children with someone else to make them smarten up. Use that beautiful expression, Why cant you be like Johnny? They will despise you and Johnny both! 6. Mother and father should disagree in regard to the rules for their children. Children will then learn to play one parent against the other and develop an unhealthy closeness to the one they can manipulate. 7. Never let the kids think for themselves. They dont have the equipment (the reason may be that they are a lot like their parents, or theyve been influenced by their home environment). Make all the decisions for them so theyll never be able to handle life. 8. Treat them with suspicion. Never trust the sneaky little characters. If they turn out well, it wont be your fault. ITLL BE A MIRACLE. (I found this article in my files, it was titled, Stupid Parent. Ralph)
Posted on: Mon, 12 Jan 2015 19:55:22 +0000
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