Thread: Parents treating kids like their pets

Unfortunately, most parents treat their kids like their pets. They do not understand that they are dealing with an individual human being just like themselves. Parents force religion down their throats, give them homeopathic/traditional/voodoo bullshit medicine instead of polio vaccines, force what ever traditions there are in the family (career, incest, hate to rival etc) and so on and so on.

"So what? It's my kid, I can do what ever I want to him."

NO YOU CAN'T, good sir. Just because the kid came out of your reproductive organ does not mean you own the fellow. If that were to be true, incest pedophillia is perfectly legit. Your job, as parents, is to make sure your child becomes a civilized human individual, who makes HIS OWN choices, who walks his own path.



You see, every kid tries to be just like he is. But most parents want their kids to be just like them. Too bad, this results in so many broken lives...

Thats your opinion and I respect it, I think parents do what is necessary for their child, They avoid what is unnecessary from the child, Parents always try to give children a better future, But children do not understand that, They seek only the freedom. Parents try to give them a future with freedom, Not a life in jail, Thats why they try to change their children as they want.

Originally Posted by trtpure

Thats your opinion and I respect it, I think parents do what is necessary for their child, They avoid what is unnecessary from the child, Parents always try to give children a better future, But children do not understand that, They seek only the freedom. Parents try to give them a future with freedom, Not a life in jail, Thats why they try to change their children as they want.

I think you both agree on the point below (me as well):

Originally Posted by Nequilius

Your job, as parents, is to make sure your child becomes a civilized human individual, who makes HIS OWN choices, who walks his own path.

Parents are meant to be a GUIDE not a MASTER treating their children like slaves.

When I drive to work in the mornings I pass this elementary school. An American school. I often see this fat American lady walking with her child on a child leash.



I laugh my ass off then I get sad because, it's fucking sad. She walks her older child to school but the younger child on the leash is forced to walk with mom because the husband's at work. Oftentimes she walks with other mothers with their own children still too young to go to kindergarten but the other kids walk freely amongst the group. I wonder if she even notices she's the only idiot that tortures her child this way. It's a terrible sight in real life. I can only justify it consciously by pretending her child is somehow retarded and it's for his own protection. But every time I see him he appears very well behaved.

Anyways, my point is this. If I have a child, then I own the child, nobody better dare tell me otherwise. The child is my blood thus he is mine. I can do whatever I want to him, within the law of course. Perhaps I'm an evil person that doesn't respect the law, then I believe the law should intervene on behalf of the child. But then there's those grey areas where if I discipline a child with a slap on his ass that I believe the law has no business in.

You have to trust that a parent has only the best intentions for their offspring. The law is there to serve society. If you live by the law I believe you can raise your child anyway that you see fit. Your child is yours, and no one else's. And how someone else raises their child is none of your business. But I do think they should ban those child leashes. I mean, look at that!



lol, that's awful. I think that's so damn lazy. None of my business tho

Originally Posted by dosage

This reminds me of a FML story I read:

"Today, I was taking a nap. Apparently, my two year old daughter decided to crawl on top of the covers on my bed because she was scared since there was a thunder storm. I thought she was one of our cats so I kicked her off. She hit the wall. FML"

Hope she is okay...please be careful next time....as for girl one mistake and you have to take care of her for whole life as any girl social status matters the most....take care of her..

Interesting topic for discussion, I can't believe that people actually take their kids out on leashes. It's not only embarrassing, but it's lazy as hell.

That being said, I do believe it is a parents job to be a guide for their children. Help steer them into the right directions in life. That does not mean shoving Beliefs or idea down their throat though. A good parent can raise a child and let them make their own decisions as soon as they are old enough to do so. For example, my parents FORCED my siblings and I to go to church until we were 13. At that points they let us decide if we wanted to continue going or if we wanted to stop. I was always a little intellectual computer nerd, even back then and I made the decision to not go to church. However I think there is an age that is too young for a child to even know what decisions to make and we he/she wants to do.

I'd like to expand more but I'm goon to be late fOr class and I'm posting for an iPod.

Originally Posted by dosage

This reminds me of a FML story I read:

"Today, I was taking a nap. Apparently, my two year old daughter decided to crawl on top of the covers on my bed because she was scared since there was a thunder storm. I thought she was one of our cats so I kicked her off. She hit the wall. FML"

Unless there were another adult in the house, taking a nap instead of watching a two year old is irresponsible in itself.

Originally Posted by mcfly

Unless there were another adult in the house, taking a nap instead of watching a two year old is irresponsible in itself.

2 year olds can sleep on their own can't they?

Originally Posted by oki

If I have a child, then I own the child, nobody better dare tell me otherwise. The child is my blood thus he is mine. I can do whatever I want to him...

I dare. And how dare you talk about a human being as if he's an object? You don't own that kid. He's his own man. Your job is to guide him until he's able to guide himself.

See, it's exactly that kind of attitude that leads to, for example, mothers using holy water to cure their children from a potentially deadly disease, instead of just taking aspirin like the doctor said.