As I was waiting in line at Walgreen's the other day I looked at the magazine rack and saw plastered on the front of one of the magazines a picture of Brittney Spears looking like complete shit and the title read something to the effect of "Parenting Coach says Brittney Spears is a bad parent". Besides thinking how fat she got and how she reminded me like a little piggy, I thought about how fucking retarded the whole notion of a Parenting coach is.
Believe it or not, I think this title captures the essence of what is going on with a lot of people today. In this blog I do not intend to take broad strokes and analyze society as a whole, but this thing is just something I've noticed amongst a few people (and I think many more are guilty).
Why do we need Parenting coaches? A lot of people, in my estimation (myself included at times), have little faith in a very fundamental skill we all have. The ability to start something new, and just chug through it and correct ourselves as we go. I have yet to find a better way of learning to do something, if you know of it let me know.
However, that opinion does not seem to be shared by many others. If it were we wouldn't have parenting coaches. We too often want to be told how to do something, we're too risk-averse. The reasons for this, I am not sure why and I suspect it varies from person to person. I think I finally understand that "fucking up" is something that needs to be done. In fact, it's not half bad.
To top it all off, it's the more fun way to learn something. I feel I am better at a skill if I just work at it and keep on it. I don't need a fucking parenting coach, no thanks. We give these experts too much praise and we build them up too much. We worship the very fact they were able to accomplish or are "experts" in an area we want to be.
Don't fall for that bullshit! Man up and just do it. I know this is sounding like a cheap sports speech but it is true. I suspect that we all are a lot better than we give ourselves credit, and most importantly I think we can do it better than all the experts (or scam artists, whatever you want to call them).
P.S. The article is called the Great Heist because people are out there telling us we have problems just to sell us the cure.
