Laziness

Textbook conspiracy

For thirteen years textbooks were telling you this is exactly how an event in history happened, and there is no doubt about it.  Then, you get to college and there are books that have newspaper articles in them that came out at the time that same event happened and it leaves you thinking how could you not doubt something like that.  Its just the government messing with your head.  Its like most of the newspaper articles printed around the time that the event happened...the only thing published is what the government wants you to think.  In high school, I was friends with a few of the foreign exchange students from France and Germany.  They were frustrated because in France, Napolean did not try to take over the world, he was just a great leader...he never got put in jail.  In Germany, the Holocaust never happened.  However, when they came here, they learned differently.  Their textbooks were different from the rest of the world's to make them believe more in their country.  It would be nice to study world history in another country just to see what they have to say about what happened, to see what the U.S. government wanted to leave out of history so that we would support our country more.  We are here because of what our government has become not because of what it did.  We study history so that history doesn't repeat itself.  For example, the Trail of Tears and Guatemala...what do they have in common?  American SETTLERS killed off all of the NATIVE Americans.   Guatemala happened over two hundred years after the Trail of Tears.  Did the U.S. government sleep during history class???  In short, don't be brainwashed by your government education...keep an open mind.

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Fathers

Just because you helped conceive a child does not make you a father.  What makes you a father is being actively involved in your child's life.  Financially supporting your child does not count as being actively involved in your child's life.  When I say being actively involved, it means allowing your child to be who they want to be...not who you want them to be.  Being actively involved requires you to listen to them...not necessarily agree with them.  Being actively involved requires you to pick them up after they fall or even just being there when they fall (not at work or having "your alone time" after work).  To be a father you have to be responsible enough to realize there is no alone time when you have kids.  Telling a child what to do and what not to do...does not make you a father.  What makes you a father is explaining why they should not do it or why they should do it, "Because I do not think it is appropriate" does not qualify as an explanation neither does "Because I said so".  Without an explanation your child could careless what you say because they have no idea why you feel as you do.  Being a father requires you to be open to their ideas and their explanations, not just demanding they be open to yours.  Being a father requires you to realize when you were wrong about something and admitting it.  Being a father requires you to, at a certain point in your child's life, allow them to make their own decisions and their own mistakes.  Trusting them to rely on the moral boundaries you were supposed to set for them as a child.  Being a father requires you to give hugs and kisses to your child, not pull their hair out or slap them across the face.  Being a father requires you to give constructive criticisms and praise, not destructive criticisms and put downs (this includes calling your child fat or incompetent).  Being a father requires you to acknowledge the fact that your child is trying hard to please you, do not only notice what does not please you.  Yeah, this ones for all of the bum fathers out there, go on and pop open an ice cold Budweiser because thats all your good for...you might as well be an alcoholic.

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