Good morning all.
It's 8:15am on a stunning Sunday morning and I seam to have some spare time on my hands. The family is sound asleep with not a care in the world. Our oldest, who is 16, by the way brought home his girlfriend last night for the first time. No matter how cool you think you are why do Dads try and impress their Son's girlfriends. No matter what poetic,informed and frankly witty lines I delivered last night I was met with a gaze of contempt. Have I lost touch, is the teenager of today really a totally unique breed from my day or have I just turned out to be my parents?
As a teenager I thought there was nobody who could hold a light to me without being blinded by my radiance, now I just think I was just an arrogant tit. Things have moved so quickly, the Internet has seen to that. I was the voice of wisdom without the latest news from Sky to back up my facts.
How do parents keep up with today's teenagers? They are the most informed and technical age group ever to wander this earth, and at no time do they think they are lucky. Quite the opposite actually, We place too much pressure on them I am told. We expect too much of them considering the level of education that the state provides. I am sure there is a disc, a program somewhere that defeats the need for us hardworking and concerned parents to send our kids out daily to school. Someway we can teach them the facts of life in the comfort of our own home. But who would want that?
I love my kids, but the sight of them leaving for school every weekday fills me with joy! 8hrs of unbridled joy and serenity which I could never achieve if it were not for the education system. There is more to school than just classwork. The chance to learn how to make and keep friends, the need for humour and civility, that's what important at school. Not Shakespeare's endless ramblings. We judge a school by it's standing in the preposterous school league tables, not what it feels like and what the current pupils say. Surely a true measure of a school is what the 5Th yr students say to you not some made up, fiddled results table.
A short rant for today because I can hear the family stirring in their rooms, so I am of to suprise them with breakfast in Bed.
Regards
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I think things are very different these days. Because in the media, to young females, the male parent is usually portrayed as some old sleezy sexual deviant looking for some "young tail" and yes in some cases that can be true. But when ever I meet a boyfriends parents I am always flattered by anything they may compliment me with. I also make sure and not act as if they have offended me or embarrased me. I know those situations can be very uneasy for a parent and so I avoid making the situation anyless uncomfortable I infact endeavour to make them feel at ease, but thats just me. On the second part, I am a teenager who knows the ways of the internet inside out. I love it don't get me wrong but I know it can be dangerous and on top of that, the way that new technology is moving scares me. Im sure there will come a time when school becomes obselete. And I know that even though most teenagers whinge and moan about going to school, I wouldn't have given it up for the world! I mean yeah, getting up early is a pain in the arse but its something that allows us to make new bonds with people that without school we would never even have met. It also wises us up to the ways of the world. Yes, people go to school and some of them have their lives made hell by bullies but its all a learning experiance. Even the bullies eventually learn from their mistakes and seeing what they did to their chosen victims, from a more mature stand point which hopefully makes them go on to realise that that is no way to treat another human being so they can then go on and share what the have learnt with the next generation. But hey .... that's just how I see thing =P
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