I saw a sister today with her son waiting in an office. Now this woman was accompanied by her two year old son and she hadn't thought to bring him any toys, a bottle, juice, a snack, teething ring, not a binky, a book or anything. Well, you know that without stimulation, the child is going to bore very quickly and become fretful. He managed to find a Jet magazine on his own and asked his mother to "read." Well, this bonehead said, "No." She proceeded to have a three minute childish argument with the child, stating that she didn't want to read and kept telling him to read it. After his argument with his mom, all of the joy and excitment that the child first exhibited about reading was gone. He picked up on his mother's lack of enthusiam about reading and followed suit. Wow, what a waste of a teachable moment. Why couldn't she spend 10 minutes reading to this child? Even if she couldn't read, she could have pretended to read, the two old wouldn't have known the difference. What a pity, that this woman felt that she would rather sit in a chair and do nothing with her child than share a memorable moment that could have instilled a love of reading to her son. Some people just shouldn't have kids. Now the priorities that will be passed down to her son will be the same ones that were passed down to her. That children and education aren't a priority, but sitting in an office begging for a social service is much more important. Too bad, the struggle continues, but where oh where have the warriors gone? They've gone to the county assistance office to beg for a handout as they play the role of parent. I'll make a baby, but don't ask me to raise it! Wake up, take the laziness out of your head and put some common sense into it.
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