Sunday, March 24, 2013

Crippled and handicapped

For starters this post may be written in sections. I think I write about seemingly pressing issues that I deem as necessary. Necessary, perhaps, for my own benefit. I have noticed something about many of my generation. It is surprising to me every time I hear something like, "I never had to clean a bathroom", or "I've never cleaned a toilet before". I am taken aback each time someone says this, and unfortunately it is frequent. The reason I bring this up is that while seeming insignificant, there is a deeper cultural issue here. When I live with kids between the ages of 18-22 I would assume that they were given some direction as what is important and how to function in society. Lately, it seems, I have been wrong more often than not. How is it that you (someone my age) are 22 years old and do not know or never had to clean a toilet or a shower or do the dishes? My jaw just drops at the thought. Then I ask myself, how is it that your father or mother or whomever took care of you never had you clean anything besides your room? That is appalling, what do you even teach your children? What kind of parent are you? This is where the 'crippling handicap' comes into play. This may be a little drastic but it is fundamentally true. Now the reason that this is a handicap is that the child-turned-adult knows little of the importance of societal functionality. This is not only detrimental to the child, but is detrimental to me, the receiver and roommate or housemate of the unlearned. Who am I to teach your son or your daughter how to do the dishes? Even more, will he or she listen to me? doubtful at best. This leaves one scenario, me cleaning up after everyone I live with because they are too lazy or too stupid to figure it out. And why are they this way? Because mom and dad didn't want little Johnny or little Joey or little Jane to have to work for anything and wanted them to be happy, blah blah blah. You're crippling your child, cleaning the bathroom won't hurt anyone, not cleaning it will. Taking this idea a step further, when your son or daughter marries another son or daughter who is also a moron, what then? Who will clean their house or bathroom then? You? When they have company and the company feels uncomfortable and visits less often due to the dirtiness, what then? One more step, what about when the nation adopts these ideals and in a few generations hardly anyone will know how to clean or understand the importance of cleanliness. Then we will live in a nation of dirt, a people of filth. The moral of the story is make your child work, have them clean and teach them to be an upstanding and functional citizen and member of society. Stop thinking that doing so Johnny or Jenny will get mad or "hate" you. Stop letting your children be in charge of what happens at home, be a man, be a woman and stand up for yourself, your family and your home. What I find comical about his post and all posts is that I am the only person that will likely read them. I write as if to inform or teach someone a lesson, but only I read it, so really I am talking to myself. Ha. In the end I will have my own family and teach them correct principles and what I deem necessary and beneficial to them and society. That's all.

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