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Mr. Rogers is to blame for everything wrong in your life!

July 9th, 2007 Leave a comment Go to comments

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One thing people today love to do is blame others. It’s never YOUR fault so it has to be someone else. You didn’t burn yourself with hot coffee, it was McDonalds fault for not telling you. You wouldn’t have been driving drunk if that bartender and your friends didn’t make you drink so much. You say you have a gland problem because you can’t stop eating Krispy Kreme wrapped in bacon. You can’t get a job because the man is bringing you down.

Thanks to Don Chance, a professor at Louisiana State University, we can now all join into one sole reason for why YOU have issues… Mr. Rogers. Yeah, the sweater wearing guy that taught us how crayons are made. Famine, poverty, the Pirates losing 15 seasons in a row, crime, my wife dropping a dish, rising gas prices, your kid flunking out of school and hiding in a dark corner crying him/herself to sleep… all Fred’s fault.

The problem here isn’t Mr. Rogers. The issue is of the coddling parents do to kids. You have to know where to draw the line people. Kids shouldn’t receive awards and trophies just for participating make them work for it and appreciate it. That defeats the purpose of working for a goal. If your child is emotionally inept to handle news of what’s going on in the world today and you need to shelter the kid, you’re setting them up for life long therapy. They need to learn that crying and begging or heck, threating with a lawsuit is not how you get ahead in this world. Stop now! Enough about if you’re hurting their feelings, worry about their lack of confidence and thoughts of entitlement to everything.

Don, Fred didn’t screw up your kids, it was your inability to be a decent parent that did it. Why did you have to pick on a dead guy. Not cool man… not cool. You get no trophy.

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    • Phil

      Agreed whole-heartedly Mr. Spoon.

      This guy’s an idiot. Why not just blame Big Bird while you’re at it? It’s easy too, to blame the dead guy, when all along it’s the parent’s responsibility here.

      Mr. Rogers was geared towards teaching children to be nice to other children. Of course, the kids that were watching Mr. Rogers didn’t need this lesson, because the problem children in the neighborhood weren’t watching Mr. Rogers. They were outside, lighting your cat’s tail on fire.

    • http://douglasderda.com douglas

      The whole “let the community raise my kids” idealology is bullshit too while I’m at it. It chaps my ass when I see how some people I know and am related to raise their kids. It makes me want to yell “WTF are you thinking!” but ya know what, it’s not my kids so do what you think is best. When I was at one of my nephew’s games and found out everyone gets a trophy I was so pissed I left after some of the parents tried to justify it to me. The sad part was I could see even then that these kids were screwed.

      Mr. Rogers was a stepping stone for teaching morals. It was then up to the parents to expand on that.