Thread: Twitter......What am I missing

Originally Posted by BobH

Don't worry, once the the real world kicks them down a few times they may eventually realize the world doesn't gives a rat's butt about you as an individual. I wonder where they got the idea they were so important in the first place?

Bob

There is a karate studio next to the tattoo shop I work at. So I stand out in front when I want to smoke my pipe and watch these young, maybe 8 to 10 year old kids, go through the moves and do the exercises they are taught. On one occasion they were going, one after another, in a line, and had to do a move that involved catching something. As each person in line took their turn the others would applaud, being led in that by the instructor.

What got me was when one of the kids dropped the ball, so to speak, and the instructor began applauding .... and the other kids followed suit, as if he had succeeded instead of failed. It is some of that "worse than Dr Spock" mentality. I asked the instructor about it later that day when he was leaving to go home. No losers ..... don't want to make the kid feel bad. So they are being instilled with a mentality that doesn't recognize there are winners and losers, and consequences in life.