Old skool mommas vs. the Nu skool
on May 10th, 2009 at 1:40 pmNu Skool
These 4 minutes are a little painful. So feel free to skip through some of it.
In short, Dr. Mom is telling viewers that children should be taught how to discipline themselves. Her examples on how to do this are…interesting.
What Dr. Mom doesn’t realize is that her wonderful child-rearing theories will lead to this.
Now I really appreciate my mom for how she raised me along with my father. We used to do all kind of fun things together like going into the city, riding the trolley, going to the museum, zoo, movies, etc. At the same time, she made sure I understood that she was my “mother” first. The “buddy” part just was just extra. That’s ol’ skool. Thankfully, I married a woman who, like my mom knew how to make those distinctions with our children.
I believe I have completely reached my limit seeing the role of “mother” being reduced to the new meaning of “big sister”. The reverence we once had in our society for the role of mother has diminished greatly over these past couple of decades. In many cases, we have traded the respect that comes with motherhood with sex appeal and the ability to be cool with our children. “Go get my belt” has been replaced with “I’m not trying to be mean”.
Our younger mothers in this generation could really use the help of you older mothers out there who have been down the road these young women have just entered. Please, do not allow political correctiveness to shackle the sound wisdom that only you can give.
Ol’ skool motherhood should not be rejected, but embraced.
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