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RSS 1.0 feed To the Hipster Parents in the Coffee Shop
in Life Stuff
written by Playmaker on 11/17/2009
Here's a message to the young hipster parents that are in the coffee shop this morning. You really don't know anything about parenting for three important reasons. First, you abdicate your parenting to a daycare for a large percentage of your child's life. If you work from 8:00 until 5:00, not considering travel time, and you put your two-year-old to bed at 8:00 or 9:00 in the evening, you are getting three or four hours a day with your child. This leaves the rest of your child's waking life being influenced by someone whose primary goal is to keep their job -- raising your kid takes a much lower priority.
Secondly, you have spent your child's college fund on ink. I got nothing against tattoos, and am currently hatching a plan to get my own. However, if you have most of your arms covered, and your back, and a couple on your ankles, you have to have spent thousands. Include the piercing in you tongue and eyebrow and I am thinking that your child is being deprived something in their lives just so you can increase your aboriginal beauty. Selfish and misguided, please don't spend anymore of your child's future on having them removed.
Third, you have one girl baby. I just hate when a married working mother of one girl baby tries to tell me how hard her life is. If you have at least two and one of them is a boy then you have some cred with me. Otherwise, you have it pretty damn good so shut up. You didn't even nurse your baby because of your nipple piercing. Give me the mother who nursed her twin boys -- now that's a mom who knows something about parenting and who had paid her dues.
Parenting requires the giving of one's self and one must surrender to the role of raising a child. If you are still making sure that your vintage clothes are the right amount of raggedy, and you are still spending thousands on body art, then I don't want to hear how tough your life is.
And by the way, pull up your damn pants. Nobody wants to see your boxers or your butt crack.
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¶By BadFaith
My ebook version begins with: The way that can be described is not the unchanging Way. I think our life choices are wrapped in a historical, socio-economic and biological framework. I would never have chosen my parent's path, and feel kind of blessed that I didn't have to.
¶By Playmaker
Bad Faith:
Thanks for the comment, but it seems like you may have been commenting about another post, because what you said really doesn't make sense to me in the context of "Hipsters in the Coffee Shop." Could you enlighten me?
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