Parents who want their children to work.

The other problem is that the sorts of jobs that kids can get tend to teach them that work is boring drudgery, best endured via slacking off or just zoning out.

If you're trying to prepare your kid for a career on an assembly line, that might be a good lesson. But otherwise...

 

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Its not just necessary to work, its necessary for children to physically suffer.

The suffering inflicted in military basic training has a very specific psychological purpose...to break down the human ego.

 

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Otherwise...you'll end up with a kid incapable of sweeping the kitchen floor.

 

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Why?

 

Actually its to teach soldiers how to work past breaking point. You need someone, especially in special forces, who can go past the pain threshold. Its the way you separate an elite soldier from an ordinary soldier. The ordinary soldier needs to know how to fight through fatigue and physical stress or he is no good to his fellow men nor to himself. One's life and that of other's depends on being able to persevere through suffering.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4HT6pm5240

 

Work is not pain and is not suffering unless you invented a new definition .

 

I know I suffered when I had to help clean out the garage

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Because both the parent and child are energy collection machines. If a child doesn't learn how to collect energy on its own then it won't survive and reproduce.

 

Why break down the human ego?

Because teamwork requires men who's automatic reaction is to put the team ahead of his own personal self interest.

When Marlon Brando went to military school in his youth he found he just couldn't cope with this principle...but admitted:

"Its really the ONLY way you can run an army."

 

No teamwork ensures the safety of all, in the field your safety is DEPENDENT on the guy who is right next to you. Marlon Brando? That's your idea of a someone cut out for the military? :bugeye:

The best military outfits in the world are those who work in small tight-knit teams like the Seals and SAS. They are disciplined, well trained and can handle the 'suffering'.

Jesus I wouldn't want you around when there was any trouble, people would be looking for a well trained person of action and all they would fine is someone who is interested in his 'own personal self-interest'. You sure embody real 'heroic' values

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You see VI Marlon Brando is a great great actor but he failed terribly as a man. He wasn't good to his wives, his daughter committed suicide, his son went to prison for murdering the father of his sister's only child with a shotgun and then went on to battle his drug and alcohol problem. Marlon Brando is a real shining example. What a guy! As a matter of fact I know an elderly woman from the theater who not only knew him but other greats like Tennessee Williams and she told me once that Marlon Brando was a great actor because he was no one so he could be anyone.

 

That is work, i have allways said looking after the house, kids and all that is harder than work,

i wouldnt be disapointed because if that is what they wanted to do then fine by me, has long as they had the option in the first place, some people dont have the option, because day care in this country is expensive and somtimes there is just no point in mum and dad working,

 

and you lived on a farm and yet didn't work til you were 8?

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harder than work? maybe working at McDonald's but not harder than what my husband does that's for sure. Not harder than being a soldier.

And is it work if there are no children? :shrug: