Wisdom lost through the ages, common sense is no longer common.
Recently, at a dinner gathering, two of the couples sitting next to my wife and I were talking about how their teenage kids always wanted them to drive them to school functions and other events they were going to .
I have heard this scenario before, with parents talking about how their kids had no interest in learning how to drive. Really !
I wonder why?
As long as mom and dad will drive them, why should they learn how to drive and accept any responsibility?
Then the normal response is, “I get tired of arguing with them , they don’t want to do it.”
First off, who is the boss in your family?
Next, they like to go places don’t they?
What is wrong with just making the statement, “I don’t have time to take you everywhere, you are all grown up, if you want to go, you will have to learn how to drive. It’s time you accepted some responsibility and started driving yourself. “
Start thinking of somewhere you need to go when they need to go somewhere, they will get the point.
Unless you want them living in your basement until they are thirty, it’s time to lay down the law and make them grow up. if you want to raise responsible mature people, you can’t be afraid of hurting their feelings or making them feel inferior. Feeling inferior is a decision they make on their own, you are not in charge of their feelings, and you have no control over their feelings.
You aren’t doing them any favors by patronizing them and keeping them under your wing. If they don’t learn to fly, they never will, and chances are your grandchildren won’t either.
Gary has been a writer/photographer for over thirty years. Specializing in nature and landscape photography, while studying native cultures.
The aborigines of Australia
His travels have taken him to most of the United States, as well as Australia, Belize, Egypt and the Canary Islands.
He has studied the Mayan culture of Central America and the aborigines of
Australia. Photography has given him the opportunity to observe life in various parts of the world.
He has observed that many of the forgotten cultures had spiritual beliefs that were stronger than ours in modern times.
In technology, we have made advances far superior to those that came before us, but, we have lagged behind in gaining or maintaining our spiritual knowledge.
For us to advance as the human race, we need to combine the spiritual knowledge of those that came before us, not only that of the ancients but the knowledge of our direct ancestors as well, with the technical knowledge we have today for us to propel into the twenty-first century and beyond.
He has published several books about his adventures.
For more information, please consult his website,www.journeysthrulife.com.
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