Well there is part of your problem right here. Cocky kids that have to be cool and go against authority. This is what’s helping lead to the demise of our future. With everything going on in the country today, all I ever hear is everyone’s complaints. A lot of people just do not take personal responsibilities for their actions. Suing fast food companies because you’re fat, cigarette companies for making you smoke. Next it will be suing phone companies for making texting so easy and addictive for kids who just don’t know any better. Parents constantly find excuses as to why their kids are the way they are. Teachers are constantly a scapegoat for their child’s bad behavior. When these kids grow into teens they know exactly who to lay blame on for all their problems and bad decisions…everyone but themselves. Now I haven’t exactly figured out how to not make this mistake with my own kids, but I try to show them that I take responsibility for my mistakes. If I punish them and find out later they were telling the truth, I apologize. And yes, it’s humbling to do but it shows your kids that you are human too and that’s okay to be wrong once in awhile as long as you apologize and learn from your mistakes. Now I’m sure that the government makes some dumb decisions but it does not always mean you should decide to just ignore the laws put into place for public safety. You have to realize they usually only make new laws like that after too many people have been injured or died and it can no longer be ignored that we as people just don’t always make the best decisions.
Blog #14 – Response 5 to: “If some grandstanding state legislator pushed through a law making driving and testing illegal–I’d probably do it anyway.” – Kevin Maney April 5, 2010
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