I’ve recently realized that as a parent you can’t be an asshole all the time. Believe me I pull it off quite often but kids need a cloud of hope to protect them from reality.

Telling children they can be anything they want when they grow up makes them wake up every morning with a purpose in life. What if we told some of them the truth? “No they can be anything they want. Those kids are different. Your parents work in the mill and hate being told what to do so they came home everyday and the roles reverse. Now they’re the boss and they get to tell you what to do so they control every aspect of your life conditioning you to be unable to function effectivly without someone else in charge until you finally realize your father’s main function in life was to hold your spot at the mill.

The pain that kind of truth causes will make an eight year old boy slapl a girl he hasn’t even knocked up yet, just in case she wasn’t sure he was the boss.