Achievment

It has been a while since I have posted, to be honest I don't know how people update their blogs so often. I have been meaning to write this post for weeks, but just have never found the time.

A few months ago (man that went fast) somebody I know got to attend their eighth grade graduation, congrats to that person I am very happy for you. The funny thing is that their grades sucked and to top it all off they missed the last month and a half of school. Now maybe I am a hardliner but what kind of achievement is graduating eight grade? I seem to remember that eighth grade was easy and required no effort.

I think we are becoming a society that rewards people for achieving nothing, as a result people are terrified and distraught when something remotely close to failure occurs. We now give out children trophies for participation or just signing up. Now if little Tommy doesn't get to play quarterback you have Tommy Sr. yelling at the coach and saying his soon deserves to play quarterback, all I want to know is why?

Why do we instill a sense of entitlement into our children? I am a firm believer in telling my boys that they can be whatever they want to be, but they will have to put in hard work to get there. Just because they want to do something, doesn't mean that they are entitled to it. They have to work hard and earn their dreams.