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HOW TO BE A LOUSY
PARENT
1.) Discipline your
children only when you lose your temper. Let them get away with anything
until you're fed up; then in a spirit of hostility and anger, let 'em
have it! Blow your top, holler, get wild, clobber them and really make a
brawl out of it. The children will get a bang out of you.
2.) Don't make yourself approachable, you might have to listen
and reason with them. If you get too chummy, they'll want to talk things
over with you. And who's got time to waste with kids? You've got more
important things to do.
3.) If they've done wrong, never let them forget it. Keep rubbing
it in; they'll loathe you for it. A father was telling me in front of
his son about the trouble the boy had gotten into 5 years earlier when
he was 13. The boy was ashamed and disgusted. When the father went to
answer the phone, the son said in an undertone, "He makes me sick."
I felt like saying "Me, too!"
4.) Give your children all the spending money they want; don't
make them earn it. Money in large quantities is an acceptable substitute
for love. After awhile they will only want your money and couldn't care
less about you. It's something like starving them on creampuffs.
5.) Compare your children with someone else to make them smarten
up. Use that beautiful expression "Why can't you be like Johnny?"
They will despise you and Johnny both!
6.) Mother and father should disagree in regard to the rules for
their children. Children will then learn to play one parent against the
other and develop an unhealthy closeness to the one they can manipulate.
7.) Never let the kids think for themselves. They don't have the
equipment. The reason may be that they are a lot like their parents, or
they've been influenced by their home environment. Make all the
decisions for them so they'll never be able to handle life.
8.) Treat them with suspicion. Never trust the sneaky little
characters.
9.) If they turn out well, it won't be your fault. IT'LL BE A
MIRACLE.
------- via. Henderson
Blvd. Bulletin.
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