Attention Parents! You May Be Destroying Your Child.

by Jim Kopetz

A recent article in The Atlantic opines on the nature of the parent's/parents' role in the academic growth of their children, or rather how they affect it in a negligent/false-positive way. I, as you dear reader should predict, thought they did not go far enough.

I expect many to react from muscle-reflex, muttering that there are much worse things children are exposed to than an over-protective parental figure. This may be true. But that's beside the point. Just because you don't beat your children doesn't mean you aren't guilty of child abuse. Go back to your own childhood. Are you happy where you are now? Is it what you want for your children?

Bad parenting comes in many forms; in fact, there is no good way to parent your child. In the end they will become whatever they become. But hurting your child's education is a detriment not only to the child, but to society as well. Make them work for it! Don't write their papers or help collages. Guide them, inspire them, and make them realize the power of knowledge.

This new generation has no instinct, nor interest in depending on themselves. They are coddled. They are arrogant. And they despise you.

When I was young we were angry because we read Kerouac and Kesey; Hunter S. Thompson and William S. Burroughs. There was an innate need to rebel. To get out, and fuck up; even if it meant living in poverty. 

We had leased a floor on heroin alley, a block or two from campus. We were there for the experience, and sought it at all costs. Most of our money at the time was spent on cocaine and cheap vodka. Our "dining room" was in constant need of cleaning, as my roommate had a vicious ulcer which made him vomit blood.

I say this as a hypocrite, of course, but I walked the line. I chewed it up and spit it out.

This is the prelude to the end of the world...

  

Sources: The Atlantic