Epic Fail!

Let me tell you why I am scared for the future of our country: it will be run by a bunch of PANSIES!! First, what brought this analysis on. I took a little Today Show survey last week. The question was "Should kids get less homework?" The responses were:

A) Yes. They should be learning more in the classroom, not in their bedrooms.
B) No. Homework helps reinforce what they learned in school. It's important.

77% of the people who took this survey said A. I can understand if some of those people are kids that answered that just cause they hate their homework. As for any adults who answered that way, I believe they should be spayed or neutered. Seriously, what is wrong with a little homework for reinforcement of what you have learned. Suck it up you pansies.

Now, I know this survey is not enough to set this all off, but it was just the tipping point. I have been hearing things for the past few years about spoiling and coddling kids. Here are just a few:

1) In this area at least, there are more and more days during the winter where kids get the day off because it is cold. Notice I did not say snow day.....it's cold days now. Yeah, I remember getting snow days when I was a kid. It was great. But, I'm pretty sure it was usually cause the snow made it hard for the buses to get out to the kids in the country. What is with the cold days? Buck up and put some more layers on. I personally would be pissed about this as a kid, because it just means the end of the school year going further into the summer.

2) Kids can't play tag any more. I think their reasoning is inappropriate touching. What? That's all I have to say about that one.

3) Kids can't play dodgeball anymore. Reasoning here.....they might get hurt! Whatever. I've got experience in this one. I broke my ankle in high school playing dodge ball. Also, in middle school, I got my eyebrow cut open by a badminton raquet. Had to get stitches. What am I trying to prove here? I didn't cry home to mom! I sucked it up and kept going. Pansies! Whatever happened to the old adage "Chicks dig scars"?

4) You can't spank your kid without fear of hearing from child services. What the hell?!? Come on. First off, I take child abuse very seriously....it is a terrible, terrible thing. But, since when is a little spank on the bottom considered child abuse? Pansies! If I did something bad as a kid, my dad spanked me. I never did it again. Lesson learned, end of story. I agree that there are other ways of disciplining kids, but sometimes a good solid spanking is what they really need.

5) The biggest one of all....they are now not keeping score at games played by children. That way nobody loses, and everybody wins. What kinda mother-effing bull-honkey is this load of dog crap? Oh...it hurts their self-esteem. What the eff ever. Pansies! Yeah, maybe it does dampen the self-esteem a little, but that's life. Another old adage that's gone out the window...."You win some, you lose some".

Do parents not want any of their children to learn any life lessons while they are a kid? In the real world, you lose sometimes....you get hurt....you have to do a little extra work to get ahead. What are all of these children going to do when they grow up? They will have learned NOTHING about how the world works! They will all be spoiled rotten and when they get told no as an adult, they will either sue, or kill, or commit suicide....because they don't know how to deal with it! And this is what scares me.

If you read my last blog, you now know that I have a child on the way. I am sooooo excited about this, but all these parents that coddle their children and spoil them rotten are going to make raising a child the right way really difficult. I personally want my children to have to lose a game, so they can learn to try harder. I want them to get hurt, so they can learn to get back up again. I want them to have fun....and they will, but I also want them to always be learning.

So, until next time.....stop coddling, stop spoiling....just stop it in general!

K

The Sound of Awesome

December 7, 2008 was a great day for me. That is the day KariAn took a pregnancy test and it finally came out positive. It ranks right up there as one the happiest days of my life. Who could ask for a better birthday/Christmas present than that? Two days later KariAn went to the doctor to confirm the test. Thankfully, it was indeed confirmed. We decided to tell immediate family right away about this and wait for our first doctor appointment to tell everyone. I've wanted to have kids for the longest time, so waiting to do this damn near killed me. I wanted to tell the world.

Well, two days ago the appointment came and went and it is finally time to tell the world....I'm gonna be a daddy!!!! Which brings us to the appointment itself. We had about 7 inches of snowfall that I had to shovel through to get to that appointment, but it was worth it. :) It was a long appointment because we had to go over family history and all that, and KariAn had to give blood. But, there is one moment that I won't ever forget. The nurse put a device up to KariAn's belly and searched and searched.....finally, there it was. bumbumbumbumbum....182 beats per minute. That was the sound of my first child's heartbeat....and that is what awesome really sounds like. There is a long, hard road ahead of us. It won't always be easy, but every minute of that journey is going to be well beyond worth it.

So, until next time....remember how beautiful life can really be.

K

Brrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!

The official temperature here in sunny Cedar Rapids is a balmy -28 degrees.....around -50 with the wind chill. We hit a record low today. These are records I don't want to see broken. The news said it was officially colder here this morning than it was at the south pole!! Holy poop, that's frigid!

Until next time, bundle up, cause baby it's cold outside!

Update: We actually hit -29 today at one point, which I just found out is the lowest recorded temperature in Cedar Rapids history.....not just the lowest temperature for this day in history.

K