Things you don't want to hear: issue #1

http://www.latimes.com/health/boostershots/la-heb-facebook-induced-asthma-attacks-20101118,0,3964165.story

A kid gets dumped by a girl. His heart is broken. What does he do? Create a false identity on FaceBook and digitally stalk her, intentionally exposing himself to the fact that this girl is over him and has other possible suitors. Eventually, he has an athsma attack because of the stress (that he was putting himself under on purpose). Where were his parents when he was involving himself in this self-destructive behavior? And why the *hell* is everyone blaming the inanimate object that is FB, rather than putting this boy in therapy where he belongs?

The more I pay attention to the news, the more I feel like the host of an old school documentary, featuring a tribe of natives standing on a Volcano, about to sacrifice a virgin, screaming, "Bad juju made it happen! Sacrifice the virgin!" 

Yes, society. Let's make it more ok for parents to not take responsibility for the behavior of their child, and lets make absolutely sure that we teach the children that they are absolutely not responsible for their actions in any way. 

If it sounds like it's absolutely screwed up, that's because IT IS. A wise friend once said, "Throwing your kid into the pool doesn't teach them how to swim, it's an excuse not to have to nurture or encourage your child." Getting rid of Facebook, or the internet, or TV, isn't going to make your kid not have self-destructive behavioral patterns. You just don't want to pay to take your kid to therapy or have to put in the effort to teach him not to deliberately engage in things that irritate his condition. 


The truth is, it's YOUR fault. It's our fault. It's his fault. And no matter how hard you believe that throwing a virgin into the volcano is going to solve these issues, it won't. Do something. Sit down with your children, teach them to respect themselves, and if they fight you too much, leave them in the woods like animals do with their defective babies, because if your child can't adapt or learn not to run into a bear cave, then he was probably meant to be eaten alive; that's a direct quote from Darwin (not really). 


Though, I have to admit, if you leave them in the woods just once, they'll usually change their tune.