Parenting Failures
Posted: June 20, 2014 Filed under: Parenting, Single Motherhood | Tags: Advice for single mothers, bad mothering, bad parenting, Johnny Cash - I Won't Back Down, parenting fails, single mother fantasies, single mothering with determination, talent schools should be outlawed, Wisdom for single mothers, you know you're a bad mother if your kids... 6 CommentsCall me judgemental (go on, I love it), but I am trying to raise my children to be able to function in society when they are adults. To be reasonably polite and kind and treat other people well, be they garbos or barristers, I believe you have failed as a parent if your kids:
Are enrolled in a ‘talent’ school. Go for it kids, learn singing, dancing, playing a musical instrument, line dancing (maybe) whatever, but please don’t let children near anyone who claims to be able to teach your kids how to become famous
Cannot say please and thank you
Can’t look another human being in the eye when having an intelligent conversation
Listen to Justin Bieber beyond the age of 9
Use ‘verse’ as a verb
Believe that going to a shopping mall is a ‘can’t live without’ life experience
Feel the need to upload their entire life on Tumblr
Are still living at home beyond the age of 25
Think that ‘director of beauty’ is a job description
Know how to operate a firearm under the age of 10
Dear readers feel free to add to this list
loupollard 
You are one of the people who do parenting right. Good for you. And it may seem old fashioned but good manners go a looooong way.
Thank you La Diva, I make many mistakes but I keep on keeping on. Just keep swimming. And bloody well say please and thank you!
Add: Are so used to winning at everything that fear of failure prevents them from doing new things.
Yes! Get in there & give it a go
I think the Bieber one is a permeable membrane. Some people are ehoot with crud and won’t grow until they do it spontaneously. As a big music and lit snob, I think an open mind a better tool than anything else: just because I think something is SHITBALLS doesn’t invalidate another’s enjoyment of said SHITBALLS. And you know, they might realise Biebs is a massively racist douche along the way, which could incur some valuable plusses in the critical thinking dept.
Yes, very wise. My eldest had to listen to Delta Goodrem’s first album a lot but she learnt to loathe her music