Dreams vs. reality
Bookworm on May 25 2008 at 5:42 pm | Filed under: Uncategorized
My dream:
Me: Jump!
Others in my household: How high?
My reality:
Me: Jump!
Others in my household: I can’t hear you. Okay, I heard you, but why should I jump just because you told me to? I don’t want to jump. Jumping is stupid. I hate it when you make me jump. Nobody else has to jump. If you make me jump, I’m going to do a really, really bad job, so you never even think about asking me to jump again.
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Get a drill instructor’s cover, known as the Smokey Bear.
Put that sucker on and bark:
All right family, listen up, jump!
I wonder if you and Mr. Bookworm might strike up an impenetrable front against the kids so that the two of you can start training ‘em. Or breaking them in. That depends on everything else that has already gone before, of course.
Every teacher knows you start out tough and then relax the rules later as you go, as the kids show that they can handle themselves WITHOUT the need for all the rules. (It means they have begun to learn, via self-restraint, how to be civilized.)
Heh! Just wait until they hit their late teens and their brain chemistry goes critical.
It sounds like your Others in my household are destined to become successful career employees in the US State Department !!
Sounds like your sickie is feeling better???
My 17 year old son has never gotten out of the bad habit of framing everything as an argument against an authority figure, instead of dealing with the reality of the situation. He’ll have to learn the hard way that the world isn’t organized for his convenience.
gpc31, I have one of those. Reality to him is a 2 x 4 between the eyes. Then he gets it.
The problem is framing things against the authority is what happens when you are the authority? Thus we get into situations where people solve that conflict by remaining ever children and irresponsible. That’s a great way to deal with problems in the real world, if you’re gunning on self-destruction and suicide.