the-unpopular-opinions:
You actually have to spend time and raise them, you know? Before they’re going to respect you. You can’t just expect them to love you if you only take notice of their mistakes. I really don’t think today’s society understands that.
Well I do agree with what the opinion says in the picture I think you’ll find that many parents in today’s society don’t even attempt to “scold” their children for their mistakes. Many of today’s youth run around doing whatever the hell they want because no one has taught them any different. Ever heard of a little show called Teen Mom on MTV?
Even though I’ve never had a child I do think that parenting requires A LOT. And I think many parents nowadays are just plain lazy. I don’t think there is any one set way to be a parent and everyone fucks it up sometimes. But as I move closer and closer to wanting to have my own family (when my life is in order enough to do so) I know some things I hope I’ll always stick with.
I know love needs to be the basis of parenting even on days when you can’t stand your kids because I think that’s bound to happen. I think that from the time they start being able to understand what you’re saying you need to be disciplining them and teaching them. I think discipline should be something they ultimately learn from not something that scares them years down the road. And I think that especially as they get older you should always try to keep an open mind and an open ear so they can talk to you about anything even things like drugs and sex. Too often I think parents get judgmental with these topics and forget they themselves were young once too. And yes this kind of relationship with a parent or parents I believe is possible even though I think most people think different.
I know that people would think that because it happened in my life time that the biggest world or national tragedy that would effect me and stick with me would be 9-11 but I don’t really think that’s so. Don’t misunderstand 9-11 is something that I have many many feelings from and it was something so awful that I think it changed not just the US but the world forever. But for me I think the one awful moment in history that changed my view on the world and myself first and forever was that of the Oklahoma City Bombing.
I feel like so many horrible things on a much more horrific scale have happened since then that people have all but forgotten about it. I was eleven I think at the time and I’ll never forget seeing those images on tv, I’ll never forget wondering why someone would do such a thing especially to other kids, and I’ll never forgot the horrible feeling I felt knowing that the monster wasn’t some scary bearded man from another country but someone who had been born and raised right here.
How did we produce someone who could do this? If we don’t ask these kind of questions than its far too easy for these kinds of things to happen again.
The Oklahoma blast claimed 168 lives, including 19 children under the age of 6,and injured more than 680 people. 30 children were left completely orphaned, 219 more lost at least one parent.
Never Forget.
http://vimeo.com/8716214
hard to read but pretty creepy ghost story
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WHAT IS WRONG WITH EVERYONE
Do you not realize that bigger, curvy, over-weight, fat, thick, large whatever you want to call it men and women make up more than half of the entire worlds population. The world claims to have a national BMI but this measurement is generally inaccurate because what is good for one person isn’t good for another. So trying to live up to an average weight makes no sense. Plus the media will always play a pivotal role in how we see ourselves and those around us whether we want to admit to that or not.
Though adults enjoy Disney movies its really children that are most influenced and supported by them. There are scientific studies to prove there are children born with the genetic disposition to be over weight from the time of their birth through no fault of their parents or themselves. Children who no matter what they do will struggle with their size, and not just because they need to be healthy but because people will make them feel like they are wrong as they are.
What about them? Why is there no heroes or heroins or beautiful princesses to show them that who they are is enough ? As a kid I never loved the Disney characters I did because of their size or image I loved them because I could sing with them, because they reminded me myself, and because just watching them made me feel empowered to follow my own dreams.
Many children have no one who believes in them have no one who shows them how to see the good in others and themselves just one negative message after another. One Disney movie with a fat princess could do these things, why is that so damn threatening to so many people?
fuck what everyone else thinks believe in yourself. <3
(Source: strictlybutter)
socialismartnature:
(Photo) The U.S.A. has killed at least 8 million people in the last 50 years.
People only call it genocide if it happens all at once …
someone needs to hand this out on pamphlets at the next election
(Source: torevolution)
TENNESSEE
The Tea Party of Tennessee wants to remove incidents of slavery and genocide from American textbooks for fear they would besmirch the image of the Founding Fathers:
The Memphis Commercial Appeal reports.
As a result, the Tea Party organizations argue, there should be “no portrayal of minority experience in the history which actually occurred shall obscure the experience or contributions of the Founding Fathers, or the majority of citizens, including those who reached positions of leadership.”
“The thing we need to focus on about the Founders is that, given the social structure of their time, they were revolutionaries who brought liberty into a world where it hadn’t existed, to everybody — not all equally instantly — and it was their progress that we need to look at,” Rounds explained of his interpretation of the legacy of the Founding Fathers.
The issue of revising curriculums to teach history in a manner that encourages the glossing over of the uglier factors of the past has popped up in other states over the past year.
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