Sage

Sometimes I don't understand how so many parents can just not care about their kids. At the store/wal-mart/whatever, I always feel SO terrible for the kids when the parents are just total, complete, utter assholes. I know that everyone has days when they're tired, stressed, sick, whatever, and those days it's ok to be a little cranky. But when the parents are just being asses towards their kids, I want to walk up to them and say "Are you TRYING to raise the antichrist?" Now, I don't have kids so I don't know any of this firsthand, but there's been enough babies come through my family that I've seen what works and what doesn't.

I think that there should be the kind of friendship between child and parent that exists between a teacher and a student. Not only are you friends, but you respect each other enough to really listen and be concerned about what's going on. One of the main reasons I don't want to have kids (I'm 22, so this may change) is I'm afraid of rasing them wrong. I still have some "princess" tendencies to work through, and I know I'm not mature enough yet to put my child's needs over my wants.

Great book excerpt by the way

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