"We are raising men..."

but are we really? As a society, I do not believe this to be the case. We are so concerned with PC, and don't hurt anyone's feelings, that we are neglecting our children. We are doing them no favor by coddling them, especially our boys.

I had a conversation with my sister-in-law today about this. What prompted it was the fact that I went and saw 300 last night. In the first 3 minutes I felt like the most overprotective mother in the world. I told her this, and the fact that my husband tells me I baby our boys. He has constantly told me that we are raising men. I always understood what he was talking about, but I don't really think I changed my actions very much, maybe occasionally here and there. I do not however baby my daughter, I constantly thrill at the fact that she is one tough bitch. I know what it is like to be a passive girl, and will not allow that to be her fate. After all "Well behaved women seldom make history." (thanks green-eyed-godess, been wanting to use that one ) When you see this movie, or if you have, you will understand. They "were Spartans" and they took no shit from anyone. Granted we do not live in as violent a world as they did back then, but that is only here in America and a few other parts of the world. Most countries, as we all know, are not as lucky as we are. But if you use your brain at all, you can see a darker time coming for us privileged Americans. Soon we will not be so lucky, war on our soil is inevitable, especially if our current President and his party get to stay in charge. Maybe not even on our soil, but still we are sending our "men" to fight. They are not men people but boys, soon mine will be at the age, and frankly it scares the crap out of me. Not because I don't believe they can rise to the challenge, but for the fact that they will have to fight (don't get me started here) alongside of the PC-parented children. This world is not fair, and you do your child no favor by raising him to think that it is. I know most parents can not be at home with their kids, and I am sorry. But to spoil them and allow them excess because of your guilt will bring the downfall of all. Children crave discipline, they toe that line constantly, they want to know where their boundaries are. If you do not give them one, then you have failed. Ask any preschool teacher out there, they will tell you that the unruly kids are not always the neglected ones. Most of the time they are the spoiled and guilt-ridden parented children. I have always believed that it takes a village to raise a child. If my children are not behaving, I expect you to voice that to them, I expect you to hold me to my shortcomings as a parent. No, I will not sue you, I will not take offense (at least not later when I think on it :) but I will know that someone cares about someone else, and in return cares about all of us.

Please people, think of the future, not what makes you feel better for the moment. Our children and theirs will live in a world so vastly different from ours. They will have to fight- to live, eat, breathe, for everything. By giving them everything, we have left them nothing. Please do not allow your children to numb their brains away with technology. Inspire them, teach them, discipline them. For if you won't, I will.



We are our own worst enemy, not threat from abroad. We will contribute to our own downfall, by refusing to open our eyes.



GO SEE:

Come on People!

So, some of you did not appreciate my post below. Well, while I love you, I also say Fuck You! I can't in good conscience sit back any longer and allow the people I care about to make uninformed decisions. I will tell you what I know, you must make a choice with that information, and then live with that decision. I will no longer be a passive partner to the world around me. I will no longer sit back and watch people I care about be affected by others, simply because it is easier to ignore and think that things are going down the right path. Not when politicians and others with dollar signs in their eyes continue to wave sugar-coated lollipops in front of us in order to distract us from the state of reality. I have too much to lose to allow this behaviour anymore.

My official stance on the whole vegetanariasm issue,......
now that I've had a moment to reflect on what I saw. I do believe that eating meat is okay, it tastes good. I personally do not eat red meat, for about three years now, and the reason is simply, my body functions better without it. Everyone has different needs, my husband and son are old-fashioned carnivores, I am not. My daughters needs are more like my own, I know this by the types of foods that she instinctually chooses to consume. I read an article when my kids were little (because my son chose to not eat meat) that kids will eat what their body is craving. As long as you are offering them different types of nutritious (McD's is not in that category) foods they will choose wisely. As long as they are gaining weight and thriving, there is no need to worry. Made sense to me. Back to the point. I have no problem with you carnivores out there, I have a problem with the way the animals were treated in order to get that food in the market. That is the point that I was trying to make. There is no reason for it, there is no reason not to stand up and say it was wrong, as long as that was what you really believe. End point.

I watched a movie today called,............

-Who killed the electric car?- Now I know some of you will not even watch this movie. But I encourage you too, it's informative and extremely interesting. If you won't go rent the movie, you can at least check out this, while you are wasting time on the computer one beautiful day. It's got a lot of interesting facts on electric cars vs. gas cars vs. hybrids vs. fuelcell powered (Bush's current sugar coated lollipop, he does have some stake in the gas car after all ) The video would be more impactful, but like I said before, I can only give you the info, you have to make the decision.

Vegetanariasm? is it me?

Don't watch this if you can't handle it, it's got me seriously thinking. I knew it was bad out there, but just allowed myself to ignore the situation. This video made me cry, made me sick to my stomach, and like I said I'm doing some major pondering.

and now for something a little lighter.....

Spiders on Drugs

Rainy?

So when I woke up this morning, it was kind of drizzly and rainy, not such a great way to start our Spring Break vacation.( Quite honestly I didn't mind, we needed the rain and I love the rain.) Anyways, I decided to let the munchkins watch Eragon, while I had a little computer time. As the morning progressed this is what became of the weather. Needless to say, it's gorgeous out now. So we shall commence with the Spring Break activities. Here's the list: library, grocery shopping, beach, pool, dentist appointments, Evie's speech and occupational therapy, the dinosaur exhibit at the local botanical gardens, washing the 1200 cars currently in our front yard, none of which technically belong to us. I know it sounds just like a regular week for us, but it's exciting because... we don't have to get up early? I don't know, the point is, it's vacation for 10 days, we shall be having tons of fun and these are my "hot dates" for the week.

MATADOR!

For those of you who don't know, Matador rocks. And they also lost one of the original members of the band. Drummer Doug Marcucci has moved away and we miss him very much. So this ones dedicated to you, Doug.

Saturday night they played The Billabong Pub. They were supposed to play with another local band, Hideous Idiots, who we were all looking forward to seeing. Unfortunately, as these things happen, one band member was in the hospital and another quit the day of the show. Maybe there is a reunion in the future and we can try again.

But as they say, the show must go on.

So Jonny's other band, whose name is, seriously, Lef Deppard, hopped right in and took their place, with the few songs that they knew. They were very good, and I've heard rumors that recently they shut a bar down *hush*, I know, so look for them in the future. Maybe they'll change their name.

So as promised here are a few of the thousand pictures I took of the show. Yes, it's Snapfish again, I tried another outlet and it just didn't work, so bear with me.

PICTURES, YEAH!

and for all you myspace freaks out there, you can also request to be a friend at their new page.

www.myspace.com/sansmatador

It's under construction, hopefully there will be songs and videos up by this weekend?

*cough* Jonny