Parents don't care about their kids anymore. I've felt this way for awhile but after tonight I'm convinced. I've been through hell, again. I'm tired of being responsible for everyone's kids. I have my own. I can't afford to raise the others and can't spend all my time teaching them right from wrong. Obviously the other parents aren't teaching them a damn thing and I am fed up with it. I am also scared to death because these are the people that will one day be adults and running this country. No wonder it's all going to hell.
I had a fairly good day with my kids. We went to the pool and they played with the only two children here I will let my kids play with. The other kids had their nanny with them and that made me feel good. We sat together and played with the kids. There was another couple there that was playing really loud, obnoxious rap music with really bad language. The radio was sitting about a foot away from their three-month-old baby. The man playing the music was a huge black man that often shows his dislike for white people by saying racist remarks loudly in the pool such as "I hate all these white fucking kids in the pool." His white wife usually tells him to shut his mouth but today they were fighting and yelling in front of the kids and the music was too loud and lyrics were about shooting whitey, niggers rule, and stuff like. The nanny went into the office and complained and to my surprise someone actually came out [thirty minutes later] and told them to turn it off. Not only was it offensive to all of us but they should not have music that loud next to a baby. A baby that young shouldn't be out in this heat anyway. They get in the pool and leave the baby there for up to an hour at a time alone. We all walk by and look in the carrier to make sure it's okay.
Tonight two girls that were at our apartment complex jumped my daughter Jessica. We did not invite them over. They aren't allowed here because I don't want my daughter around them. I only knew one of them actually; the other one turned out to be a schoolmate. I'm in my house relaxing when my son comes in and tells me Jessica is getting jumped. I ran outside to hear them calling her a whore and bitch, saying they were going to kill her and come back and egg our house and so forth. They took off running as I got closer and almost got hit by a car while fleeing across the street. I called both mothers and the first mother told me my daughter must be a whore or her daughter wouldn't be saying it. I asked her "Would you be okay with it if I came over and stood outside your door and told Jessica to start yelling names and cusswords about your daughter?" She actually told me "If my girl had done something to deserve it I wouldn't mind." I guess she approves of this behavior and anyway she went on to call me a bitch and say her kids can go anywhere they want. No they can't. She said we shouldn't have invited them over. We didn't invite them.
Twelve-year-old girls have no business walking around the streets by themselves in bathing suits anyway.
I called the mother of the other girl and it didn't go any better. After I explained to her what happened and told her that the girls almost got hit by a car all she had to say was "I'm in law enforcement and have to get up at three in morning, I don't have time for this and I don't care." Oh what a loving and caring mother! I hope she doesn't get called out to any child abuse investigations. Maybe that's one of the reasons these things are allowed to happen.
I don't claim to be a perfect parent. I don't believe my kids are perfect. But I damn sure know where they are at all times and would never approve of such behavior. One of the girls that caused the problems has told my daughter she is no longer a virgin and has done cocaine. Jessica came home one day and told me this. I immediately told her never to invite the girl over and not to hang around her at school. I care about my kids. By the way, the mother of this child is the one that works in law enforcement. Both these kids are in trouble at school all the time.
One of the teachers at the school told me that it was his first year there and he will not be coming back. He said that the kids are totally out of control and that he has not been able to get one parent to come down to the school when he calls. He also mentioned that he has a hard time finding one that speaks English. That's another story I won't go into right now. To better understand that statement go read Speak English.
These examples above are nothing compared to some of what I have seen. It's ridiculous that parents don't take interest in what their own kids are doing. I see nine and ten year olds out at night walking around. A kid mugged my son twice my size one week after he got his new bike. If someone called and told me my kids had done such things, my kids wouldn't be leaving the house for a long time and doing all the housework. I've found that extra housework is a good way to keep them in line. They really don't give me much trouble other than not wanting to clean their bedrooms or do the dishes. All kids hate that stuff. I think about how much it gets on my nerves when they argue with each other and don't want to do their chores. Then I think about the kids that are tramps and thieves already and thank God my problems are so small. One of the employees here where I live told me a few weeks ago that my kids are the only good kids here. That made me happy. He said mine are the only ones that haven't had the cops called on them yet.
Every day you hear something on the news about some kids killing or committing some other type of crime. What can you expect when the parents don't want to know what the kids are out doing? I see kids sneaking out of the skating rinks and walking down the street being picked up by cops. It's no use calling the parents; there won't be anyone home. I can't get over the woman telling me she didn't have time to hear about her daughter almost getting hit by a car. Fort Worth is full of trashy people and I am getting out as soon as possible. After living in this school district and seeing what kind of people are involved, I'm getting the hell away.
Maybe if these parents took the time to know their children and keep up with what they are doing and where they are going, there might not be these problems. Instead we have kids of parents that either barely speak English, if any at all, and kids of law enforcement workers that don't have time to be parents. Let's not forget the crackheads that take their kids out thieving with them, yes, I know a woman that actually does that. She lives by a friend of mine. She spends all her money on crack and then sends her eight and nine year old out to bum food off neighbors and takes them in stores and teaches them to steal. She drives drunk all the time with the kids, the cops are at her place all the time and she is being evicted because of it. Child Protective Services have been called several times but nothing happens.
Nothing is going to get better in this world unless parents start raising their kids. Anyone can give a child shelter and food but it takes a parent to raise them.
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