I know that I already complained about this but I can not help it. It is more and more obvious as I am watching the Winter Olympics.
The Chinese women's curling team has a Canadian coach who naturally can not speak Chinese and communicates through an interpreter.
I was watching women's figure skating last night. One of the interesting thing I noticed that the Korean star figure skater is being coached by the Canadian Brian Orser who himself was an Olympic silver medalist for Canada.
The guy who stood on the podium several times and watched his country's flag being raised now was wearing the Korean team's jacket as he was rooting for his pupil. I guess the mighty dollar is the ever encompassing reasoning behind all this.
Most of the coaching staff in figure skating are Russians. Either former skaters themselves or just very good coaches who have the knack developing talents. This applies not only for the American skaters but to skaters in other countries too. Oh, and most of them live and practice in the US with their pupils.
I can understand that countries are selling citizenships to serve their own interests and, athletes are recruiting trainers from all corners of the world. All this because sport is becoming a worldwide business of huge proportions.
I think the Opening Ceremony should be the same way as the Closing Ceremony usually is. Athletes should come in in one large group and not by countries since being part of a particular country has no meaning at all anymore.
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It seems that the media and others perceive today's children, primarily toddlers and their parents as idiots.
They are constantly occupied with child safety things. The car seat has to be a particular type otherwise the child falls out of it. The crib has to be a particular type of construction otherwise the baby might kill himself.
Electric outlets must be covered because the toddler will stick his fingers in them and gets electrocuted. Kitchen ovens must be protected in such a way that children might not be able to turn them on.
And this list goes on and on and on.
I don't understand all this. Maybe because I don't have any children.
But when I was growing up or any of my friends were growing up our parents never got a manual on how to raise us safely. And none of us ever got electrocuted or killed by our monster cribs.
We were allowed to sleep on our backs or on our bellies whichever we liked. We never had certain rooms barricaded so we might not enter. We never fell out of the windows and always got our shots without argument.
In our time we never had smartass mothers who thought they were more knowledgeable than the rest of the world. When they told us to get our shots we got them otherwise we were not permitted to attend school. We complied, never argued. End of story!
The so called experts are convincing everybody that today's parents are not up to raising children without a manual. And they are also convincing everybody that the babies and toddlers are on a mission of self destruction.
Somehow this world survived all these years without a safety manual and Baedeker.
Look at China. 1.3 billion people and I am sure they were not given a How to handbook every time a baby was born. The same applies to India with its 1.18 billion population.
At the top of these problems are the parents. Everything depends on them. Parents supposed to care for their children, they supposed to train their children for social etiquette. They are not to leave the basic values to the schools.
A well mannered child is not well mannered because he learned it in school. He is such a way because of his home life. Because the parents are willing to spend time with the child.
And since the apple doesn't fall far from the tree, bum parents probably will have bum children. But there is no excuse for good parents to have bum children.
Hate to repeat myself but I will. Just look around. Our parents turned out to be pretty good people and their offsprings aren't that bad either.
If I may say so myself!
They are constantly occupied with child safety things. The car seat has to be a particular type otherwise the child falls out of it. The crib has to be a particular type of construction otherwise the baby might kill himself.
Electric outlets must be covered because the toddler will stick his fingers in them and gets electrocuted. Kitchen ovens must be protected in such a way that children might not be able to turn them on.
And this list goes on and on and on.
I don't understand all this. Maybe because I don't have any children.
But when I was growing up or any of my friends were growing up our parents never got a manual on how to raise us safely. And none of us ever got electrocuted or killed by our monster cribs.
We were allowed to sleep on our backs or on our bellies whichever we liked. We never had certain rooms barricaded so we might not enter. We never fell out of the windows and always got our shots without argument.
In our time we never had smartass mothers who thought they were more knowledgeable than the rest of the world. When they told us to get our shots we got them otherwise we were not permitted to attend school. We complied, never argued. End of story!
The so called experts are convincing everybody that today's parents are not up to raising children without a manual. And they are also convincing everybody that the babies and toddlers are on a mission of self destruction.
Somehow this world survived all these years without a safety manual and Baedeker.
Look at China. 1.3 billion people and I am sure they were not given a How to handbook every time a baby was born. The same applies to India with its 1.18 billion population.
At the top of these problems are the parents. Everything depends on them. Parents supposed to care for their children, they supposed to train their children for social etiquette. They are not to leave the basic values to the schools.
A well mannered child is not well mannered because he learned it in school. He is such a way because of his home life. Because the parents are willing to spend time with the child.
And since the apple doesn't fall far from the tree, bum parents probably will have bum children. But there is no excuse for good parents to have bum children.
Hate to repeat myself but I will. Just look around. Our parents turned out to be pretty good people and their offsprings aren't that bad either.
If I may say so myself!
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