Parents in Diapers

A National Crisis: The Parent Who Never Grows Up.

It's sad. I was in Walmart today and there was this young family behind me. i could not help but hearing allot of fussing and I assumed it was just a group of high school students. When I turned around it was two middle aged adults fighting with their 8 and 4 year old.

Then as I walked around the store past the toy isle I noticed parents yelling at their kids telling them to get off the shelves, stop whining, and the popular "you better listen to me!" Yet what I found the most ironic was that in the midst of parents yelling at their children for not communicating properly most of the parents were mindlessly browsing their phones, complaining at store clerks and fighting with their spouses.

It is said that children are only a reflection of the parents who raise them. If the parents who raise them have themselves never graduate out of the playpen how can the kids be expected to fair any better? This reveals a deeper issue which plagues human society; if life is truly so short and we are spend and increasing amount of time consumed by our own selfishness, waiting well into our mid-life to mature, we limit our effectiveness.

In effect the enemy of our soul seeks to distract us from the whole duty of man, fear God and keep his commands. Yet what is far worse is that we not only fall into the pit of our own selfishness, we drag the youth of this generation in behind us. If parents desire for their children to grow up to become capable fully functioning adults it is time they grow up and become fully functional adults.

Today parents try to be an older sibling and not parents, dictators and not mentors, politicians and not parents. It seems there are many who are more considered with social media than with the media viewed by their children. Parents who refuse to say no or provide discipline via the paddle out of fear of damaging the child's self confidence have themselves never left the playpen.

If newborn babies are such a blessing why do parents view toddlers and teenagers as a curse? Why does that euphoric feeling fade with the first diaper? Why do the parents default to being the child? The best leaders always lead by example. Parents are among the most important leaders of a healthy society. Therefore I challenge all of us parents to rise to the challenge and be the best possible parent we can be!  

WILL YOU JOIN ME?