A child, like your stomach, doesn't need all you can afford to give it. Clark Frank

So what if she never taught her daughter the value of the money? So what if she never learned that you can't keep buying stuff for your son while he doesn't care and loses them constantly? Everyone sees their children as their best. But their children see them as well. And if they think that their son or daughter will not learn from their behaviour, they are dead wrong.

So what if someone that has barely money to eat dreams of a vacation? Aren't they allowed to dream? Hey, the emptier the pockets the better the dream right? But why go into a debt you can't afford just to please your child? Where do we start doing too much to please the child and not teaching the child that enough is enough?
Children - saw it today, barely even 5 years old. Daddy bought an expensive toy for the red headed girl - 600$ for an iPad. Parents buy love from their children. Parents stop being parents and start being buddies with their children. They are tired of being parents. They don't want to be called "mom" or "dad". Really? I mean...you are not one, why should they even bother to call you that name right?

Where does respect from your kids come? did you ever wonder that just because you bought that expensive toy, or phone that they just don't need, they don't love you as a parent? They see you getting in debt to buy something you cannot afford because why not you are in the "please my kid" business. What they learn is that money come from a plastic card and not from hard work.

So, what did you do for your kid today? Teach him/her a lesson or give him/her anything they asked for? Before you screw your kid up and let him/her sleep thought their teen years like a bear, wake him/her now and teach them that life is all about making a sacrifice and standing up after a fall. Not everything is given to us. We actually have to work for it.

There is nothing like the razor sharp tongue of a good friend to cut through the lies we tell ourselves.

Well well...so here we go again. MIA for a few months.
I wonder why a friend will ask for your advice. Just to make sure he/she will go the exact opposite way? It's a sort of  sounding board that the echo comes back "distorted"? What is it that people come to you for an advice since they have already their minds made up? Why the lying? And why do I even bother answering those calls, really.
My first instinct when I see someone making a stupid move because they think with what they have between their legs (that applies for both sexes) is to tell them "stop!". Go back. Reassess.Rethink.
But no, I become the enemy because I am trying to point to the obvious...arghhhh...I need to stop myself from doing that.