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Tuesday, January 10, 2012

Waiting for Superman to Fix All These Shitty Parents | Mr. Teachbad

Waiting for Superman to Fix All These Shitty Parents | Mr. Teachbad:

Waiting for Superman to Fix All These Shitty Parents

Herein you will find Part II of my review of the block­buster film Wait­ing For Super­man. Part I can be found here. Part II of the review first appeared, in more or less this form, as a guest post at White Group Math­e­mat­ics.

At a cer­tain level, it makes no dif­fer­ence whether par­ents are will­fully neg­li­gent, stu­pid, or gen­uinely inca­pable of being good par­ents due to forces beyond their con­trol. At the end of the day, you’re just a shitty par­ent and other peo­ple have to deal with your kids. For a living.

And that’s a big prob­lem if you are a child of such a par­ent. With shitty par­ents you miss out on a whole bunch of use­ful habits and ori­en­ta­tions that, hav­ing not learned, will mess you up more and more with each pass­ing year. You will offend and gen­er­ally dis­en­fran­chise your­self with more and more peo­ple