The things you hear while passing through a airport can be so wild! I had a three and a half hour lay over in Dallas. Trust me when I say I was hungry. I looked around to find a spot where I could get something vegan friendly. Let me tell you, it was not easy. I see everything else but that. However; my stomach was not having me deciding not to eat, so I gave in to the “rumblings” of my stomach and decided to get a sub from subway, worst decision….. any way; while sitting there a man and a boy sat at the table next to me, the boy, appears to be about 14 years old the man looked like he could be in his 40s. This dude proceeded to chastise the child for his choice of food. Telling him; you should not be eating all this food as you will be sitting on a flight for a long period of time and it is just going to sit there in your stomach and you gain weight, plus you are lazy as it is already. Granted he purchased the food for the boy. Granted he himself has a stomach that looks like he just swallow a very large chicken….. Come on people….must we degrade our children in this fashion? I mean Jesus….especially in a public place.
I moved away from that scene. I believe it is the responsibility of every parent to build their child/ren self esteem up not tear them down. Too often parent tear their chid/ren self esteem down by saying things to them that they cannot take back. Those parent then expect the child/ren to be productive members of society and just “live”. Too often I hear parent/s telling children things and then follow with “my parent told me worst and I am fine, you will be fine”. Parent are you really “fine” or did you just “survive” because you had to. Did it really work for you? I really don’t think so.
Be a better parent than your parent was. Be a better human being. Lift up the next generation. Help them to be better than you were. That is how we change the World. That is how we change stigmas. Just be BETTER…..
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