You Can't Tell Them Nothing

I was talking with my Goddaughter earlier today and I finally figured this whole thing out. My son is more laid back, so he never caused this to cross my mind. He asks questions on an "as needed" basis. She asks questions one right behind the other though, and they all seem to be thought out. Maybe that's why I hadn't seen it before now. Maybe it just wasn't time. The children are a mirror image of the adults right or wrong. The same thing that has consumed the adults in Memphis has taken over the children too. Some of these people couldn't read their name in boxcar letters. Yet they require their officials to have a masters degree and be working on a PHD. I have often said when it comes to local elections. We want a rocket scientist to fill a run of the mill job. That could be filled by someone with not as much formal education. Now we want to complain because some have succumbed to the pressure and went out and bought degrees. Some jobs only require that you be a representative of those who elected you. Why should a councilman have to be a lawyer; when all his constituents are law abiding blue collar workers? All a person has to presumably do is know more than the voters. Some people consider that a qualification.

This same mentality has spilled over to our children. They think they know more than their parents do, and oftentimes they are right. What need would a preschooler have for knowing how to do fractions? Why do they need to start thinking about a major in elementary school? I think we may be requiring a little much of them to soon. Children these days don't get a chance to be children. A whole summer has gone by and I haven't seen many children outside playing yet. They spend all their time inside playing video games. As soon as they are old enough to talk and make a complete sentence. We start preparing their resumes for the Ivy league schools. Realistically most of them won't achieve our expectations. But hold your horses, don't stop the presses. Do we live up to, or meet their expectations for their parents? Everybody thinks they know more than they really do. You can't tell them nothing, because they think they know everything.