Showing posts with label parenting. Show all posts
Showing posts with label parenting. Show all posts

Sunday, July 20, 2008

Personal responsibility at its best.

I have long railed against the lack of personal responsibility in America. If you know me, you know that I generally think people are too stupid to think on their own. When people think for themselves, they typically do stupid shit then refuse to take responsibility for their actions. The following story pretty much sums it up where a woman left her 4-year-old son in her car while she spent three hours in a nail salon getting her nails done for her wedding that day. This was in Florida, mind you, and the child died on the way to the hospital.

"Investigators say the woman may not have known her son was in the car.
They explain he may have climbed in to the vehicle without anyone noticing."

Obviously her nails were so important that she couldn't pay any attention to her kid who's four years old! Whenever I am with a friend that has children, they always know exactly where those kids are. If the kids have run off and we don't know where they've gone, then the search is on! It's all a basic sense of responsibility that any adult should have. Of course, that is one of the major issues with American culture today: no one seems to understand the need for personal responsibility anymore.

People should seriously need a license to procreate.