I really think that it is wrong for the kids to learn life lessons from the misfortunes of our own family but that is what happened this weekend.
My wifes mom finds it best to live on the fringe of society and although most people that read this may think that I would find that cool, in fact I don’t
So my Mother in Law calls us yeaterday and the house that she is living with is full of Meth users, hookers, everyone deals and everyone seems to shoplift so they can get their drugs an alcohol. She has had enough.
Well she has kind of had enough, she is not ready to get a job but she really wants out and she wanted to stay here, my wife definitely wants her not to be around our kids and disapporves of her moms crazy, minimalist, welfare based lifestyle. She lets her in anyway.
So she stayed last night, got into a shelter this afternoon and I have been trying to explain this to my 8 year old daughter.
Taylor, Grandma doesn’t have money and even though money is not the most important thing it is very important to have enough so that you can decide where to sleep and what to eat. You need to rely on yourself and have a job becasue relying on the government is very very bad.
They say that there is a cycle of poverty and I am sure that is true. My wife broke the cycle and there is no way that I would want my daughter to sit idly by and hope that some guy is going to take care of her because that is a recipe for failure.
So my daughter goes into a shelter today, learns a life lesson on the evils of poverty and now hopefully she remembers that every time she has a chance to make a bad and lazy decision.
Oh and to all the people that say that we should have just let the mother in law stay her. Screw you! I don’t need that kind of attitude and acceptance of the welfare state in my house.
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