Trying not to get judgmental is no easy business, but seriously now, I think parents are the greatest hypocrites to ever exist among us. Most of them preach virtue but are in fact the biggest sinners; they teach their children honesty while they are the biggest liars themselves, and they pretend to love their children but also find it proper to complain and wish they were never parents. What is that all about? I just can’t justify that, I mean, if you don’t want kids then don’t make any. And more importantly, if you are not fit to have kids then PLEASE don’t make any! Don’t go around having kids and then bitching about it all the time to your friends and family or making them feel you are God for the rest of their lives just because you did a very simple biological thing and created them. It’s just pathetic.

Too teenager-like for you? News flash: it’s not! Just take a look at parents around you, I know some of them really love their kids and all that but how many of them actually realize the responsibility that lies upon them as they raise their kids? How many of them earnestly reflected on the thought that they are creating LIFE, as they were in the process of creating it? How many parents do you know do not act as if they own their kids and whenever their kids gain a sense of independence they feel they’re losing their grip? How many parents do you know, in this country, treat their children equally? How many parents, again in this country, think about their financial and social situation BEFORE making any kids? They simply have kids and more kids only to realize they can’t really afford bringing them up, most of them solemnly believe that this has something to do with religion, I really can’t agree with that. Simple math: if you can’t give them the best, don’t have them. And if you’re not mentally and emotionally ready to receive them and accept them the way they are, then –I guess you know the rest of the sentence by now- don’t have them!

So back to my argument about parental hypocrisy. What I find so strikingly funny is that so many moms teach their kids not to lie (morality 101) but they also teach them NOT to object to their lies in public. I’ll explain, a mom teaches her daughter not to lie because that’s wrong. But this same mom lies in front of her own daughter and teaches her not to object to that and that it’s OK because this is mom lying.
Yet another real-life example of how parents are such hypocrites. They teach their children not to do all sorts of forbidden things while they have a been there done that situation. Which means they themselves have done all the things they tell their kids not to do. Some might argue that is because they don’t want their kids to commit the same mistakes and get in trouble, but hello? I’m so not buying that. Children want to explore things for themselves and this is something parents just don’t get. They will do these things sooner or later and will probably not tell their parents about them due to the constant preaching and, needless to say, the fact that their parents are hypocrites.

This naturally doesn’t mean I am anti-parents. I sometimes like them but most of the time I am indifferent to or repulsed by their actions. Maybe one day I’ll be as much a hypocrite as they are. But well at least I’ll know I’m a hypocrite and I’ll try not to overdo it. *smiles*