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When I have children, I will make sure there is always a ruler in the house. And there will always be color pencils and glue and white out too. I don't think there has ever been a bottle of white out in my house, at least one that isn't stolen.
There will always be a ruler in the house, and then my children would use it when doing projects for school. They wouldn't have to use the edge of a thin book called "The Picnic" to make a bar graph for a science project. They wouldn't have to use old markers that are dead within a second of coloring with them. They wouldn't have to use a cheap glue stick that doesn't stick.
They wouldn't have to work on the ground on their floor, so that by the time they finish, their feet won't be numb, and their backs won't ache from hunching over, and their thighs won't hurt from resting their geography textbook on it to write.
And if they were, for some reason, using a book as a ruler and surrounded by dead or dying markers, I wouldn't come in and laugh. I wouldn't laugh, so there would be no reason for my children to think, "It's your fault I have to work like this! My back hurts and its all your fault!! If you could only get money!! If only you could get it and keep it!! If you could have only not taken that money from my dead grandma!! Then we would still trust you with money!! If only you could keep a fucking job!!!"
Then, if they never thought that, they would never have to feel incredibly bad about it afterwards.
And then, when they are finished with the project, they won't look at the crappy results and think, "Well, it sucks, but its up to my standards. This is as good as its gonna get."
There will always be a ruler in the house, and then my children would use it when doing projects for school. They wouldn't have to use the edge of a thin book called "The Picnic" to make a bar graph for a science project. They wouldn't have to use old markers that are dead within a second of coloring with them. They wouldn't have to use a cheap glue stick that doesn't stick.
They wouldn't have to work on the ground on their floor, so that by the time they finish, their feet won't be numb, and their backs won't ache from hunching over, and their thighs won't hurt from resting their geography textbook on it to write.
And if they were, for some reason, using a book as a ruler and surrounded by dead or dying markers, I wouldn't come in and laugh. I wouldn't laugh, so there would be no reason for my children to think, "It's your fault I have to work like this! My back hurts and its all your fault!! If you could only get money!! If only you could get it and keep it!! If you could have only not taken that money from my dead grandma!! Then we would still trust you with money!! If only you could keep a fucking job!!!"
Then, if they never thought that, they would never have to feel incredibly bad about it afterwards.
And then, when they are finished with the project, they won't look at the crappy results and think, "Well, it sucks, but its up to my standards. This is as good as its gonna get."