tucky Fried Chicken. When they took me back to campus they dropped me off at the stadium parking lot away from the campus life, so as to not embarrass me by being seen getting out of a police car. That incident happened over 35 years ago, and I haven’t walked in a store since that night unless I had the money to purchase whatever I came to get. Adults will routinely lie about how
much money they make. Husbands and wives will lie to each to other about who they were out with last night. We all lie to the police when we get pulled over to try to get out of a ticket. We’ll lie about how much we eat, our weight, and how much exercise we get to our doctor. Adults will lose half their paycheck gambling and lie to their spouse that the job mistakenly shorted their check. We will lie and steal by making false claims on our taxes. And we constantly lie to ourselves. But when our kids bring home an altered report card because they’re afraid they’ll be beaten for a bad grade, we feel compelled to beat them, in order to teach them not to lie? This is fear- based, double-standard child rearing – and
your kids see through it like a pane of glass. But I get it, these parents are simply doing
what was done to them. And I’ve started to wonder in this Social Media era if younger parents are seeing this as their turn to wield the belt, and also get their “15 minutes of fame”. But for parents of my generation, If you’re wondering why your adult kids don’t want anything to do with you, after you pro- vided them with all the trappings of a great upbringing? It might be because the only inti- mate contact you had with them growing up was at the business end of a belt. Consider this your wakeup call. •
Anthony Richardson is an entrepreneur, inventor and writer living in Atlanta. He graduated Magna cum laude from FIU, was a Ohi Beta Kappa member and holds a Masters (MPS) in Tech Entrepreneurship from University of Maryland. Be sure to visit his blog site
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