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Larry Winget is our guest bloggers during the week of January 11th. If you have any questions for Larry Winget, add a comment to any of his posts. Here is some more information about Your Kids Are Your Own Fault: A Guide for Raising Responsible, Productive Adults:

Straight-talking, bestselling Pitbull of Parenting Larry Winget says "This is not a fix your kid book. It's a fix the way you parent book. You owe it to your kids to parent with a plan!"

Being a parent is the toughest job in the world, especially with the increasing number of negative influences and pitfalls facing our kids today, from childhood obesity and out-of-control celebrity culture to the dangers of the internet and credit card debt. Larry Winget has never been one to shy away from tough truths, and what he says here may well be difficult for some parents to swallow: we are in the midst of a crisis with our kids. Kids today are over-indulged, over-entertained, under-achieving, and under-disciplined, with a sense of entitlement that is crippling society. And the real problem is that parents aren't paying attention to what's going on. If they were they would realize that most kids today barely read and write, except with their thumbs on their cell phones!

Well-behaved, respectful kids are the exception, not the rule, and for the most part, parents are to blame. Responsible parenting is about beginning with the end in mind and parenting with a plan. But most parents have never stopped to consider what kind of adult they want to raise. They have all this fun creating a baby, but they don't have a plan for the end product.

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That's right. It's easier to be stupid than it is be smart.

It is easier to listen to the political pundits and television news anchors and trust their words completely than it is to study, read, and search to discover the truth about a political issue or to actually read one of the bills or proposals you are so vehemently for or against.

It is easier to believe Rush or O'Reilly or Hannity or Olberman or Rachel or Beck or even Larry Winget than it is to actually do a little fact checking of your very own. It's work to find the truth out about any issue, so it's easier to just accept what you hear as fact.

It is easier to listen to the preachers and believe every word they say from their pulpit than it is to read the book yourself, or maybe lots of books and search for your own insight and develop your beliefs based on your own experiences.

It's easier to just toe the party line because you are registered Democrat or Republican than it is to ask whether the party line makes sense or not.

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You would not believe the number of emails I am getting about my political affiliation.  Some of you reading this are probably some of the people who have written me.  I kept my politics out of my blog for a long time but ever since I came out on a FOX News interview saying I was a Democrat voting for Obama, the hate mail has been steady.  Let me make my position clear. 

Yes, I voted for Obama.  I don't agree with all of his views in terms of the bailouts, but I do agree with many other things he endorses.  I am a social liberal and a fiscal conservative.  I have many Republican friends who are also fiscal conservatives and social liberals.  You can belong to either party and believe that way.  In my case, there are some things where I have extremely conservative views and some of my views would be considered quite liberal.  I am not one of those stupid one issue voters.  I have lots of irons in the fire just like everyone else and I want to cast my vote on what makes sense to me based on many issues, not just one.  I also understand how desperately America needs hope right now and obviously others agree with me based on the overwhelming turnout at the polls.  Obama represented hope to millions of Americans who are afraid and in trouble.  We are tired of the fear and the negativity and the politics of politics.  We want to believe in something again.  That hope he brings is just as important as are his views on the GM bailout.  And please realize that many Republicans voted for him too.  Democrats alone didn't put him in office.  Nor did African-Americans alone.  Or Hispanics.  Or people under 30.  Or women.  Or white men.  There was a consensus of many groups of people who believed in him as a MAN and were able to get past the small disagreements they had with some of his politics.

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Are people really idiots? Obviously I believe so based on the title of my new book, People Are Idiots And I Can Prove It.

What else could I believe based on the evidence provided?

Parents don't talk to their kids or discipline their kids; give them everything they want and then wonder why their kids are a mess.

People barely do any work while they are on the job, then can't figure out why they got laid off when times got tough for their employer.

People spend more money than they earn then seem to be surprised that the people who loaned them the money actually want to be repaid.

The majority of people can't read and don't read.

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I am an attack dog when it comes to stupid behavior.  After all, I have trademarked, The Pitbull of Personal Development®.  I even encourage others to become pitbulls in their own way and to attack when confronted by rude, absurd, stupid behavior.  I find that people often are confused by my confrontational style and sometimes miss my intent.  Based on that, some people consider my attacks to be either rude, condescending, or personal.  I can assure you that is not the case.  I never attack another human being on a personal level.  I do, however, feel I have the right to attack the behavior of an individual or an organization.

I recently watched a segment of 60 Minutes with Supreme Court Justice Scalia.  Justice Scalia was talking about his very close friend, Justice Ginsberg and how they have such an unlikely friendship.  After all, you have Scalia, a right wing conservative and Ginsberg, a left wing liberal.  Scalia said, "I attack ideas, not people, and there are very good people with very bad ideas."  I like that line.  I hope I do the same.  At least that is my intent: I want the ability to rise above behavior and enjoy people while still being able to consider that their actions are stupid, detrimental, idiotic, rude and sometimes seemingly insane.

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