I hate society today.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070420/ap_en_tv/people_baldwin_basinger
Alec Baldwin gets fed up with his daughter apparently acting like a snot-nosed brat and leaves her an angry voicemail. Listening to the entire voicemail, it sounds like she missed a phone call from him that he had to work hard to fit in his schedule, but also that apparently this is not the first time that this has happened and that she doesn't pull this kind of thing with her mother (Kim Basinger).
So now Kim is acting all superior like 'I don't leave my daughter angry voicemails' and letting the entire world know 'what a bad parent' Alec is.
To which I say bull. Honestly, if my dad and I were in the same situation he would do the same thing, except not as nicely, and nobody would say a word about it. (Yes, this is assuming I'm twelve like Alec Baldwin's kid.) Because if your kid acts like a spoiled brat and you call them out on it, that is good parenting.
I never understood the wishy-washy "I let my kids run all over me" tactic that a lot of parents use today. When I talked back to my dad, you better believe I got in trouble for it. A few times he even stood me up and told me, "The door is there if you want to leave. Go. I'm not stopping you." And yet despite all this he was a loving and caring dad who went to all my choir concerts and all my report card nights and all of the things that were important to me. He helped me choose a college and supported me no matter what I did. He took me here to Alabama to visit a year ago because I wanted to go. He's given me money when I'm broke and plans on paying for bartending school so I can get a job. I couldn't ask for a better dad. But he was the disciplinarian in my family, and although he was strict he was never overly so (he's the one who wants to take me to get my nose pierced).
I just hate that idea that you have to let your kids do whatever they want blah blah blah. It's crap. Call me old-fashioned but I really don't see the point in it because then they'll just grow up to be discourteous spoiled brats who are twenty, thirty, forty years old, and that is not preparing them for the real world. If my daughter treated me with that kind of disrespect, you're damn right I'd leave her an angry voicemail.
Rant off.
Alec Baldwin gets fed up with his daughter apparently acting like a snot-nosed brat and leaves her an angry voicemail. Listening to the entire voicemail, it sounds like she missed a phone call from him that he had to work hard to fit in his schedule, but also that apparently this is not the first time that this has happened and that she doesn't pull this kind of thing with her mother (Kim Basinger).
So now Kim is acting all superior like 'I don't leave my daughter angry voicemails' and letting the entire world know 'what a bad parent' Alec is.
To which I say bull. Honestly, if my dad and I were in the same situation he would do the same thing, except not as nicely, and nobody would say a word about it. (Yes, this is assuming I'm twelve like Alec Baldwin's kid.) Because if your kid acts like a spoiled brat and you call them out on it, that is good parenting.
I never understood the wishy-washy "I let my kids run all over me" tactic that a lot of parents use today. When I talked back to my dad, you better believe I got in trouble for it. A few times he even stood me up and told me, "The door is there if you want to leave. Go. I'm not stopping you." And yet despite all this he was a loving and caring dad who went to all my choir concerts and all my report card nights and all of the things that were important to me. He helped me choose a college and supported me no matter what I did. He took me here to Alabama to visit a year ago because I wanted to go. He's given me money when I'm broke and plans on paying for bartending school so I can get a job. I couldn't ask for a better dad. But he was the disciplinarian in my family, and although he was strict he was never overly so (he's the one who wants to take me to get my nose pierced).
I just hate that idea that you have to let your kids do whatever they want blah blah blah. It's crap. Call me old-fashioned but I really don't see the point in it because then they'll just grow up to be discourteous spoiled brats who are twenty, thirty, forty years old, and that is not preparing them for the real world. If my daughter treated me with that kind of disrespect, you're damn right I'd leave her an angry voicemail.
Rant off.