WRAM

(sigh)

OK. I'm going to put on my big girl pants and stand up to the younger generation of women which, I swear, suffers from the WRAM syndrome (World Revolves Around Me). More and more I see women who have bought into the "you can have it all" 70s mantra. They are oblivious to the fact that merely simultaneously HAVING a career and HAVING children doesn't make them particularly good at either. Everyone who has a family knows that children require an inordinate amount of time, attention, direction, love, guidance and FOLLOW-UP. By that I mean that a good mother doesn't just ask a child to clean his room, do his homework, take out the trash but FOLLOWS UP in seeing that he DOES. One doesn't need to nag, but one DOES need to ensure that tasks are completed and some sense of responsibility is achieved.

Mothers today are hopelessly involved with full-time positions outside the home which routinely are accompanied by long and stressful commutes. The workday is then lengthened moreso by their hair and nail appointments, the teeth whitening at the dentist, the Pampered Chef party for a co-worker (who also has kids but "needs" the extra income Pampered Chef/Nutrilite/Tupperware/Avon provides). It's endless. These women are totally immersed in their careers and personal extra curriculars to the extent that their offspring are latchkey kids and most likely nuke their frozen dinner to be eaten alone. God forbid a woman should COOK any more and sit down and enjoy a meal with the family.

WRAM is contributing to what's wrong with America today. There's no one home raising the kids, and the moral decay this country has undergone in the past five years alone is appalling. I'm very disturbed by all of this, but my opinion doesn't count. I'm outnumbered by two generations of tattooed, pierced "liberated" women who haven't a clue the damage they're inflicting on society. It's sad, and so am I.

(sigh)