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Sorry, the dog eating shit thing was meant in a philosophical way. Didn't help that I'd just been browsing Politics. (But I really do know a dog that likes shit, and it seemed to fit what I thought was an attempt to excuse hypocrisy. I had it backwards.)
As for the parental situation, that's rough. Parenting isn't easy. It makes you evaluate so many things and little habits that previously went unnoticed. Some of us are slow, some of us never learn. Other parents know the advice generally comes from the heart for the child's benefit. It can be hard to convey that when you're the local bastard authority figure. Moreso when your actions don't match. Inconsistency is an obstacle for everyone.
It'd be great if children didn't get their first tastes of personal failure by observing their parents, but we all wear skin. Hopefully we grow to understand that and take relationship bumps and annoying advice in as positive a light as possible.
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There are a vast number of people who are uninformed and heavily propagandized, but fundamentally decent. The propaganda that inundates them is effective when unchallenged, but much of it goes only skin deep. If they can be brought to raise questions and apply their decent instincts and basic intelligence, many people quickly escape the confines of the doctrinal system and are willing to do something to help others who are really suffering and oppressed." -Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media, p. 195
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