Unbelievable

I’m sure you’ve heard about the “gender neutral” family.  Basically a family who refuses to reveal the “gender” of their child because they want to allow it to choose for itself. 
The reason I put gender into parenthesis is because I want it to stand out to you.  Let me give you a little history about the word gender.  The term gender was coined by a man, a creep of man, named John Money, if you want the full disturbing summary of his life work go to Wikipedia.  But in short he believed in pedophilia, but only as long as it affectionate pedophilia….What the heck is that?  And he was ok with incest.  Need I say more???  He didn’t believe that sex roles (or what her termed gender) were connected to physiological sex but rather that they were learned.  I’m sorry, but sex, Y chromosome or X chromosome, it was decided by daddy’s sperm.  It’s a natural thing, the way of nature, the universe, or God, whatever you believe in, it was decided.  These selfish, stupid parents are buying into a concept created to deteriorate society and I feel sorry for their children.  This child is either a boy or a girl, who do they think they are to take that away from him or her. 

Bullies

Whenever I hear or read about a bully story I get super worked up.  Bullying is not acceptable. Ever.  And the crazy thing is I could probably list thousands of links to bullying stories.  Not to mention all of the bullying that goes that the news never gets a drift of.  So when a friend of mine posted this experience on facebook my blood boiled….

“Who knew that kids could be so mean so young?! Took Taj to the park today and when he ran over to the water fountain to get a drink there was a little group of boys there probably ages 4-6 filling up their water bottles and when they saw Taj, one of them pinned him against the brick wall and started punching him and another one thought he would join in on the fun and cornered Taj in the bathroom and dumped his entire water bottle out over Taj's head and down his back. Taj is a 2 year old, what kind of kids do that to 2 year olds?! We need to teach our kids to NOT be bullies when they are young!” 

A 2 year old…. Really?  And it doesn’t even have to be a 2 year old to be terrible.  Who does that?  Where are parents?  Who is teaching kids manners, respect, and kindness??
My kids will never bully and if they ever do there will be serious consequences.  They won’t learn violent behavior from me, so if they do where will it be from? TV?  I am very careful what I let stream into my home, I don’t let my kids watch junk on TV.  My kids try things, they are toddlers and sometimes they hit and bite.  When they do they get in trouble.  Even better I try to prevent it from happening in the first place or happening again.  I try and teach them to love each other and think before they act. 
This is mostly a rant, I am not trying preach about how to be a good parent, because heaven knows I have a lot of work there.  I just don’t understand how society got to this point.  Where are the parents of these bullies?  Or are they there and if so why are they allowing this kind of behavior?
The hand that rocks the cradle rules the nation.  Or it’s something like that.  We as mothers have so much influence on how our children turn out, and a society is only as good as the people within it.  Lets take care to teach our kids, not let them run rampant and keep our wonderful country from turning into a violent ravaging place.

Gratitude and Unselfishness….

From what I understand the NFL players went on strike because their labor union wanted to add 2 more games to their season but not pay them more for it.  Arguably football is a dangerous.  The players think they need to be compensated for the danger of injury in those extra games.  I have 2 things to say about that.  First of all, do they not love what they are doing?  Didn’t they dream as kids to get to grow up and all they would have to do is play football?  Second it’s not like they aren’t making tons of money to begin with (and I’m just considering their actual salary, not including all their other endorsements).  This is all over 2 extra games, really??  If you ask me playing 14 football games a year isn’t that bad of a deal when it comes to jobs.  I think 90% of the male population would trade careers with these football stars in a second.  So I guess this is all led to a lockout and if it continues there will be no NFL season. 

Don’t misunderstand the purpose of this post.  I am not bothered that there will be no NFL season, I don’t watch football.  Luckily for me my husband won’t even be phased by it either (although he would be one of those guys who would trade careers).  The point is the ungratefulness and selfishness in this whole scenario.  I don’t believe that every football player is is ungrateful and selfish. However, obviously enough that it has come to this. 

Gratitude and unselfishness are values I am trying to distill in my children on a daily, hourly, minutely basis.  I would be so disgusted with my kid if he grew up and became a professional athlete, was getting paid in the millions per year, but went on strike because they asked him to play 2 more games of the sport that he supposedly loves. 

http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=6121861