Some comments I liked:
"If more parents stood up and made their kids take responsibility for their actions this world would be a much better place!!"
"Good parents worry about outcomes. Bad parents worry about their children liking them."
"Parents should stop being so scared of their kids....no wonder teens are selfish, disrespectful brats most of the time."
"BRAVO!!! The disrespect for parents and authority is far too out of hand and the media has a goal to make the parents the bad. I applaud your direct effort to attempt to fix a very broken system"
**My Comment: So many parents these days are stupid. They do not teach their children accountability for their actions and do not make, that's right, I said MAKE, them contribute to the household by doing chores around the house. Notice, I deliberately used the word "make". As in, the children have no choice and no say in the matter. If they are to benefit from the hard work and benevolence of the parents, they must chip in, like in the old days when the children who grew up on the farm had to work on the farm to help the family.
These days, the popular, yet stupid idea, is that children are expected to be useless lumps, with no responsibility, yet given all of the luxuries of life without being expected to do anything to lighten the load of the parents a little in return for being provided for and taken care of. Their every little whim is expected to be catered to because they "deserve it", in the eyes of a stupid and dumbed-down society. This dumbed-down society doesn't care about your welfare or the welfare of your family. The ideas are simply followed without question and all that matters is the perpetuation of popular opinion, no matter how worthless and damaging that opinion is.
We have to be men and direct the destiny of our lives. We must take the reigns of leadership in a matter-of-fact way, unapologetically, making no excuses for fulfilling our natural role as men. We must LEAD our women and our children in the right direction. Our women and children must be taught respect, accountability, and correct behavior. We lead first by embodying those virtues in ourselves, leading the way by example. We lead with love and with unwavering firmness when necessary so our women and families have a good life now and in the future. Good does not necessarily mean easy. It could mean following a difficult road at times but in the end and along the way there are also good times and pleasures and moments of rest.
We do not WORSHIP pleasures at the expense of character but we can enjoy the pleasures in life while building a good character. If there are some hardships encountered along the way toward building good character, so be it. In the end, the building of that good character, the ideals we strive for, is a pleasure in itself. Or at least the end result is. Life is not all pleasures and it is not all hardships. It is a balance and too much of the first breeds a worthless, good-for-nothing ingrate with a sense of entitlement. Too much of the latter breeds a person with a martyr complex, a self-righteous masochist who believes the only virtue is in the experience of pain.
