It is the sole duty of the parent to ensure that they receive proper instruction and education.
This is the essence of the law on the books in CT of all places, which freely allows home schooling based on this law. It is and should be the crux of our education system. If shits broke, and not teaching your kids critical thinking or teaching them wrong, they are yours its on you and you alone. If your kids are clueless, look in the fucking mirror, they have your genetics, they are capable if you are, unless your spouse is an IQ 80 nigress/er.
So yes I feel very comfortable telling people they have failed. I do all the time subtly to their faces, I find subtlety to be the best method of making people squirm if they catch what I'm saying. If not then the apple and the tree apply.
And yes I have grown children that are aware probably more than I am and are here posting/lurking too. So fuck off if thats where you're going to answer with. I've failed as a parent in my own ways, I full acknowledge that but not in educating them.
How have you failed "in (your) own ways". What ways are those? Do you see others as failing "in their own ways", or do you just see them as failures?
Some things are more important than others is the point, thus some failures are more significant or impactful than others. Everyone has their own failures, though not all are self-aware enough to acknowledge them. Again the point here is to make more people who can think do just that. We all should be striving to consider other viewpoints, as is the central point in critical thinking. Yet to fail to teach critical thinking, and to apply it in our own lives, there is no greater failure when it comes to leaving a legacy.
I understand that all people have failures. Though I do find it strange sometimes to see how often we tell others what their failures are while we only generalize our own.. Myself included since this engagement certainly seems related.
It’s good that your grown children are aware. And I’m glad that you were such a perfect person to produce such children.
As much as I wish ours were more aware, I’m proud of the people they’ve become. They are hard working and loyal. Honest with integrity. Kind to the people in their worlds. Some have taken a circuitous route to get there. So, while being awake is important there are other equally important aspects of being a good citizen.
I may have failing as a parent and as a human. I can guarantee you I’ve never done one thing. I’ve never stooped so low as to tell another parent they’re failed parents. I hope the apple and the tree do not apply in your case. I feel for your children if it does.
Stick your sanctimony so far up your as that it lifts your feet off the ground in sheer ecstasy.
Sounds about right.
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