Thanks to all of you, this blog is receiving a steady 10 views a day! And to thank you all for caring or being bored enough to check, I am going to post a strange article every week! And for our first week, I was going to post something from the source of ridiculous news stories: The Paradise Post; but since they were all out today, I stumbled upon a free little digest right next to the cigarette counter.
Signs of the Times is a christian digest that is aimed to protect(?) you from… Whatever threatens Christians today I guess. Now you could say, “Conor, is this going to be a religion-bashing post?” No, not this time anyways. I skimmed through the pages until I found a column called, Ignore Your Children.
Remember the good ole days when parents used to neglect their kids and offer that 
they had had a long day at the office while they pour a half a glass of scotch? Well apparently their are some patriots out their that want those days back! The columnist John Rosemond found that the one answer to all of the problems afflicting children today is to simply tune out from them. He states that parents should tell their children “mutually liberating things as, ‘You don’t need a mother/father right now, and I’m not going to be one,’ or ‘You don’t have permission to ask me for anything for the next hour, and if you attract any attention to yourself during that time, you’ll be in a mess of trouble with the meanest Mom/Dad in the world!’”
Right, this makes perfect sense. Whenever some teenager commits suicide, they always say that we shouldn’t have paid so much attention to him! Sigh, he goes so far as to say that if anyone disagrees with him, then those people have been brainwashed by modern “psychobabble”. There’s honestly nothing more I can say about this article. If you honestly think ignoring your kids will make your life better, then you are not a good parent. What articles like this do is simply widen the gap between children and parents from the other side which is not going to help anyone out. Hey Dr. Rosemond, why don’t you ask any kid whose been through a divorce if he/she would’ve enjoyed their parents leaving them alone more?
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