Wouldntchaknowit, my family had to get involved this weekend as well.

I fail to understand how, when we're trying to make decisions in our childrens best interests, we continually get judged as bad parents by mainstream society. No, we don't beat our children with a wooden spoon and even threaten them with it regularly as my brother does. No, we don't send our kids to school because we believe this is the best way, the appropriate way to learn. No, we don't want to be working all the time and never seeing our kids just to have more stuff.

I cannot see how these things make us bad parents. If I had jumped on my brother and told him he was abusing his kids with that spoon, or that his working all the time was buying them things but they were missing out on his kids lives, or that he was making an ill-informed choice by sending his kids to school and that they would be scarred for life, I would be looked on as the judgemental, meanspirited one. But as long as we're attacking alternative choices, then it's all okay you know. Our choices are only okay as long as other people are making the same choices, MORE people are making the same choices. No going against the grain!

Why is mainstream society so close minded? Why do they just blindly go about their lives without thinking that there are other ways of doing things? I know, I shouldn't say "they" or I'm being just as judgemental as those who judge us. But it does seem a large number of people in the world are blind to environmental issues, problems with the education system in this country, positive ways of raising children.

I'm very frustrated today.