At first I thought you guys were talking about some new anime or TV show or something. But then the more I’ve read, the more I knew you must have been talking about that old PBS series that I thought nobody would have remembered.
We are old, first of all, and second, it really goes to show you how few options there were back then and how everyone watches the same stuff. Now there are so many different options and a lot of us don’t even watch TV, I doubt most kids watch that much TV either.
That show ended after what, 2 seasons? I’m going to go look it up on wiki now lol.
The first time I heard about this I searched for the link and donated 300. This show NEEDS to come back. Arguably in the Top 10 of my favorite shows OF ALL TIME.
Naw, man…ain’t no Big Bird anymore, unless you count background cameos…it’s all Elmo and his group of special needs preteen friends. Telly might still be on there (along with Baby Bear and his goofy speech impediment), but he’s always having some jacked up anxiety attacks over nothing now. I swear there’s something wrong with all of the muppets now. Every muppet that was like a normal person, but, you know, a MUPPET, they got rid of. They need to bring back FAMILY Sesame Street. This ultra-kiddie crap cannot be good. Edu-tainment’s supposed to be for everyone. The people Sesame Street’s aiming at are too young to do anything but watch the screen and bounce while shouting one garbled word while drooling on themselves, then cry in stores when their mother won’t buy them something with Elmo’s mug on it. We need something like Reading Rainbow to balance this mess out. Martha Speaks can’t do it alone (DAMN, that show needs a seasonal box set dvd release! But PBS doesn’t do that, for some dumb reason).
1: Parents too sorry to teach their spawn how to read (or even ACT, these days)
2: responsibility falls to teachers, who have to deal with 30 or 40 OTHER kids at the same time…unfortunately, reading is something that needs a lot of one-on-one instruction and help. Teachers don’t have time for that. They have to keep shit moving, and get through the curriculum. If Timmy is still stumbling through “Dick and Jane” while everyone else is on “Lee: The Rabbit with Epilepsy”…well, fuck Timmy. We just won’t call on him to read in front of the class.
I honestly don’t know why anyone who isn’t well off would want to have kids nowadays.
The public education system is shit, so you’d have to spend money on tutors/private school… Other people are too lazy/stupid to raise their own kids properly, so you’re constantly having to combat the influence these other shitty kids have on your kid…
…And may God help you if you’re raising a boy… Hoo buddy… Won’t even get into the war on masculinity in this society, or the false diagnoses of developmental/learning disorders in male children because no one knows how to raise men due to the lack of good fathers that borders on an epidemic in poorer households…
Doing a good job raising a kid today is like playing through Battletoads on one life…
Add to that the fact that teachers are dealing with other kids whose parents have the same problem as in #1, and they wind up being referees to a bunch of barbaric children who have zero social mores because mom is too busy taking selfies to get their kids away from the TV, and you have the entirety of the problem.
Teachers/Congress are not your kids’ parents. If your kids are disrespectfully cursing you out in public and refusing to listen to you about anything, that’s a byproduct of your lazy, shoddy, thinking “liberal” means “letting your children raise themselves” parenting.
Grab a belt and start spanking that disrespect out of them. If they come home with reports that they’re being disrespectful to teachers, grab the belt. If they do that to random people on the street (like I had one kid do to me as I was walking in to work, then overheard him do the same to his grandmother), grab the belt. 99% of the time, that’d clear the problem up.
Only 1% of the time would stuff like ritalin be used, yet that’s what every parent these days thinks thinks their kids need.
And women? You don’t need to be a man to grab a belt and spank your kids. My grandmother used to cut switches out of a tree in the backyard to spank me and my cousin with. My mom SAVED broken paddleballs to use on me when I got out of line. So daddy not being around is an invalid excuse. Get off instagram and snapchat and get on smackdatass. Don’t even need to download it, just grab a paddle or belt and go in.
And I truly am of the belief that the lack of corporal punishment has created this level of disrespect children are giving. There’s other factors too, but if people weren’t scared of spanking their kids, there’d be less of that. Any parent trying to NEGOTIATE with their children to get their bad behavior to stop needs to be euthanized. Congrats on teaching a child how to talk to police during their bank hostage crisis when they become adults. Now take this cyanide tablet and spare the gene pool of your idiocy.
Poor people don’t give a shit. They get a ton of government handouts for popping out kids, so they do it.
But you’re right, for everyone else, it’s tough to have kids. And hence most people aren’t having kids in the US. The middle class is dying, young people are not forming families and buying houses, and even when they do they’re still not having kids.
Liberal policies are a failure because they punish the hard working productive middle class in favor of the non-working poor and non-working wealthy.
