Parents Just Don't Understand!!!

Kids are always saying that adults don't understand, or that parents just don't understand!

Funny thing is Parents & Adults alike are all feeling somewhat the same way about the kids these days too. "What is wrong with that child?"

Simply put there is no reasoning with children as their brains are not developed enough to handle simple math yet, let alone any complexities we adults deal with on a daily basis.

Firstly children have a lot of time on their hands, or they used too, before video games & the internet started to become a life force to be reckoned with. Nevertheless children have more time in a day to daydream or stall their responsibillities then your average adult. There are far too many distractions these days then when I was a child. My god I can only imagine how hard it would be for me to study or do homework with all these bells and whistles going off (MSN, Cell Phones, Blackberrys, blueberry's, video chats and game sites, chat rooms, blah blah blah) the list goes on and on.

I can remember my folks telling me to turn on the radio or the television so I could concentrate better, I would think, OMG, your kidding me I can study with music on or the TV!

Today Children are doing their homework on their computers with printers and built in calculators with MSN running with four hundred people talking back and forth playing ring tones and sending mini's back and forth with files of music or video's or whatever, blah blah blah, once again the list goes on and on.

All I am trying to get at is that there is a lot of distractions kids face these days as a result of finding means to keep our children busy so that we can continue being double income families.

sounds like I just took one for the kids but facts are facts.

If we want to start cleaning up the mess that WE MADE, we first have to start realizing that it is OUR MESS. Then we need to start developing better communication skills with our children.

Would it actually hurt to sit down and create some type of schedule that involves everyone's wants and needs, hey! what a concept. Of course taking priorities into consideration.

Kids need to be taught to understand certain family values that have been passed down from generation to generation. What happend to the last two generations of our social civilization? Would it be the wars we've endured? The coming of Equal Rights? What was it? How have we evolved to the point we are at now and what can we learn from that study? How can we correct our path for the sake of humanity and our future as a planet?

With proper time management you can accomplish anything... ANYTHING!!! yes you heard me right. Time is money, you've heard that before I'm sure of that. Well there is nothing better than time. IF you were a rich dying person you would buy more time if you could, but you can not. That is why time is NOT money, it is far more precise then money.

Children have lots of this commodity, this untangable entity we all strive to have more of called time. The older we get the less time we seem to have to enjoy any of the things we work so hard for. What kind of initiative is that for our children to look at and see? While we continue to be double income families, thinking that we have it covered by throwing all those gagets at our kids to keep them busy, meanwhile they see you running around like a chicken with it's head cut off thinking hey man I'm staying right here in yougsville where there is NO responsibillities.

Last but not least, children, teenagers and the like, need to understand what it means to RESPECT YOUR ELDERS!!! it means to understand that they have already dealt with handfuls of idiots in their life time, worked many hard hours and had things taken from them and they've already been deprived of things when they were kids from they're own parents.

Bending rules every once in awhile is for those who deserve the rules bent. If your parent does not bend rules for you then maybe it's because your not meeting your parents half way in the first place, smarten up and start pulling your own weight. Nothing is free in this world. I used to be one of those kids that would yell out " I didn't ask to be born" Well I think that I found the answer to that stupidity or comment that a lot of kids seem to say now or think that they didn't ask to be born and that the world owes them something on a silver platter.

You may not have been asked to be born, just as your parents didn't prey to god to have a lazy child that didn't want to amount to anything either!!! They did their part by giving you a shot at an opportunity of a lifetime!!! literally. The rest is up to YOU!!!

You have 18 years from birth to take advantage of the free education, room and board, food, clothing, dental, medical, PLUS daily lessons in love, happiness, anger, pain & loss through the nurturing knowledge of a parental form. After 18 everyone expects you to have your shit together, and they won't bother to hold your hand after that, plus if you need more education it's not free anymore that's gonna cost ya too!!! So if you want to sit around and play all the way up to 18 and beyond then don't expect everyone to still be there handing out care packages and holding your hand.

My father told me when I was a kid, when you go to bed at night, ask yourself two things.
1) Ask yourself what you did today that made you a step closer to your goals?
2) Ask yourself what you can do tomorrow that will help you get closer to your goals?

Never prepare FOR a worst case scenerio, ALWAYS prepare FROM the worst case scenerio, work from the inside out, not from the outside in. Keep it simple.

Time Management, Proper schedules, Communication skills, family meetings, any other idea's folks, I am open for comments on this one, as you can see there is so much to discuss.
JDP