Today was a typical California winter, as in, it rained. And as expected we had the horrible drivers, but that's for another day.
What really got me today was watching a woman walking her kids in a stroller while they were dressed in clothes meant for summer! I understand that it's "Mommy's right" to dress the kinds until they're five or six in whatever the hell she wants. But since when is a tutu appropriate attire for cold, muggy, rain? You may be working out pushing that two seated stroller around town, but their little butts aren't!
This is a perfect example of Mommy pretending her kids are dolls, dressing them up in whatever cute little outfit she wants to see them in. While I'm not against dressing up your kids in cute outfits, I feel like you've just crossed the line from responsible parent to sixteen year old idiot. If it's cold outside, you would dress yourself appropriately, wouldn't you? You would wear pants, a sweater or jacket, and maybe a scarf or gloves if you're into that. Why? Because it's cold outside! So why do you think it's a good idea to put a tulle tutu skirt on your kid? Why isn't your infant wearing a hat? Those little bodies are more sensitive to temperature than you are.
Use your heads when you dress your kids, please. For their shivery little sakes.
Love, Polly.
Showing posts with label Dealing with Irresponsibility. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dealing with Irresponsibility. Show all posts
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April 30, 2010
April 30, 2010: Maturity isn't something you just stumble upon.
We all have that stupid friend frustrates us because they won't grow up and handle responsibility. There are so many ways that irresponsibility is fostered it's no wonder they exist either. Just a fact of life that we have to accept no matter what goes on. Sometimes they even have the gall to tell us that we're being irresponsible with our lives as well, and we can't see where they happen to get off saying those things.
Being the friend who won't grow up, the friend who thinks they're all grown up, or just the person who is all grown up doesn't mean that we're ever in a place to judge anyone else really. I'm not really sure of my religious stand point yet, so I'm not going to be the person that says, "Only God can judge". But I'm considering the fact that there will always be the friend who won't grow up or who thinks they're all grown up, and not always the person who is all grown up.
But it doesn't really matter which of them you are in the long run, life runs it's course and you'll just have to deal with things as they come. For the people who won't grow up, they find ways to enable that, be it through their parents or other people. Maybe they just didn't learn the lessons that they need in order to mature more. And for the people who think they're all grown up, well that's great for them. If they're not, eventually they'll fall upon a hard time that will force some kind of growth, we hope. I've never met a person who could always say that they were all grown up, and had become everything they wanted to be. Even Bill Gates wants to be a person in a perfect, healthy, livable world. He has money beyond the imaginable, and he still goes to help those who are less fortunate. Something inside him says, I am not yet the person I want to be and I cannot be that person until the world is functioning in a way that allows that. Not to say that he's unfulfilled or unhappy. I'm sure that he experiences both those pleasures. But something compels him to do those things, and that is the knowledge that the world is not in a state that he can be the person he would love to be in it.
As with each variation of persons, there is a variety of ways to handle it. You can complain or try to help foster the things that you believe that person should have. Personally, I think the only way to combat any of the issues with irresponsibility is to work yourself. Strive to mature, mature your thinking, mature your beliefs, and mature your moral and ethical code. The body matures at it's own pace and there is little you can do outside of wishing or hoping on your own to help spur the process. The mind is different, when you expand it, you grow. With growth comes maturity. I'm going to strive to grow, and I'm going to strive to be better in all the ways that I can. Instead of complaining or badmouthing, I'm going to push myself to show the most responsibility I've ever shown in life. Self-responsibility and social responsibility, together.
Love,
Polly.
Being the friend who won't grow up, the friend who thinks they're all grown up, or just the person who is all grown up doesn't mean that we're ever in a place to judge anyone else really. I'm not really sure of my religious stand point yet, so I'm not going to be the person that says, "Only God can judge". But I'm considering the fact that there will always be the friend who won't grow up or who thinks they're all grown up, and not always the person who is all grown up.
But it doesn't really matter which of them you are in the long run, life runs it's course and you'll just have to deal with things as they come. For the people who won't grow up, they find ways to enable that, be it through their parents or other people. Maybe they just didn't learn the lessons that they need in order to mature more. And for the people who think they're all grown up, well that's great for them. If they're not, eventually they'll fall upon a hard time that will force some kind of growth, we hope. I've never met a person who could always say that they were all grown up, and had become everything they wanted to be. Even Bill Gates wants to be a person in a perfect, healthy, livable world. He has money beyond the imaginable, and he still goes to help those who are less fortunate. Something inside him says, I am not yet the person I want to be and I cannot be that person until the world is functioning in a way that allows that. Not to say that he's unfulfilled or unhappy. I'm sure that he experiences both those pleasures. But something compels him to do those things, and that is the knowledge that the world is not in a state that he can be the person he would love to be in it.
As with each variation of persons, there is a variety of ways to handle it. You can complain or try to help foster the things that you believe that person should have. Personally, I think the only way to combat any of the issues with irresponsibility is to work yourself. Strive to mature, mature your thinking, mature your beliefs, and mature your moral and ethical code. The body matures at it's own pace and there is little you can do outside of wishing or hoping on your own to help spur the process. The mind is different, when you expand it, you grow. With growth comes maturity. I'm going to strive to grow, and I'm going to strive to be better in all the ways that I can. Instead of complaining or badmouthing, I'm going to push myself to show the most responsibility I've ever shown in life. Self-responsibility and social responsibility, together.
Love,
Polly.
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