Some of this is pretty ridiculous...
#5. Declaring Bratty Kids to Be Magical Superhumans ("Indigo Children")
"Raising a difficult child can be hell -- it's exhausting to deal with a kid who is uncooperative, endlessly demanding and spoiled. You have to try to get them ready to deal with school and the adult world beyond, all while helping them recognize their own potential as the next X-Men-style evolutionary leap forward for mankind."
"Yes, you are witnessing enlightened beings who will usher in a new age of understanding, one ruled by the kind of spoiled douchebags who as we speak are using their 12-year-old lungs to shout racial slurs at strangers on Xbox Live. So you take the worst kids and literally tell them that they're more special than the other people on earth. No way that can go wrong, right?"
#4. Pole Dancing for Kids
"The "Little Spinners" class at Make Me Fabulous, a studio that teaches strictly pole dancing, is apparently a real thing. According to them, teaching your toddler to pole dance will help them "use their bodies, move, balance and be free." Plus, it's a great way to pay your way through college. But, hey, Make Me Fabulous doesn't list the kid class on their website anymore, so no worries, right? This isn't something that's happening all over the world."
#3. Extreme Breast-Feeding
"The video is part of a documentary called Extraordinary Breastfeeding, and in case you're curious, the kid in the above picture is 7 years old. And man, does she ever love breast-feeding. And she's not alone. Her sister was breast-fed until the ripe old age of 5, but four years later, she still yearns for the day when lunch meant latching on to mom's bosom."
#2. Orgasmic Childbirth
"Right now women are being taught how -- all you have to do is practice relaxation techniques, kiss and caress during labor and have that baby in a candlelit hot tub, presumably while the sweet sounds of Michael Buble waft through the air.
You can watch the preview for the documentary Orgasmic Childbirth here, but we think it's not safe for work. We're not sure. There's sideboob and cleavage. Depends on where you work, we guess. What we're saying is it's a bunch of women having planned orgasms while giving birth."
#1. "Training Up" Your Kids With Constant Beatings
"Today, the method of punishment for children has largely turned to "sit in the corner" or "talk it out" rather than the righteous full-on beatings of yore. And you know what? Michael and Debi Pearl think that's a bunch of horseshit.
These people exist at the extreme opposite end of the spectrum from the Indigo Child crowd. According to their book, To Train Up a Child, not only should you be beating your kids, but you should be using a pipe to do it.
But seriously, it's not like the Pearls are advocating beating newborns with PVC pipe or anything. No, it's much worse than that. Check out this savory quote:
"Select your instrument according to the child's size. For the under 1 year old, a little, 10- to 12-inch-long willowy branch (striped [sic] of any knots that might break the skin) about one-eighth inch in diameter is sufficient."
More of the article with hilarious pictures @ http://www.cracked.com/article_19721_the-5-creepiest-progressive-parenting-fads.html
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