Perfectly expressed by my fellow writer, Ellen Lambert (who blogs at EllenOutLoud at Braveheartwomen.com)\u00a0 I woke up hearing the words, “Children don’t like it when their parents fight.”\u00a0 Ellen captures this sentiment perfectly.
\nI grew up in a family where the parent people fought all the time. All the time. It was habitual. It was constant. It was distressing, disturbing, and annoying. Nothing was ever resolved; no conclusions were ever drawn. The current debt-ceiling debate is giving me flashbacks.<\/p>\n
Maybe it\u2019s because I was raised around it, but I am not a big fan of bickering. I loathe name-calling. I abhor baseless rhetoric.<\/p>\n
I do, however, adore a good debate. I sure wish we could have one.<\/p>\n
Between the finger-pointing, blaming, and pouting I just wish the Great Playground Monitor would call a big recess to recess and send all the squabbling brats and bullies to time-out or home, it makes me no difference<\/p>\n
I never had the power to get my arguing progenitors to stop. I do remember asking them to. Yesterday I asked my representatives in Washington to do the same. I used to tell my parents that they had to stop behaving so stupidly; they were supposed to be taking care of me. I reminded my Senators and Congress people of that too.<\/p>\n
Yes, all the juvenile posturing and gesturing does remind me of a time when I never had a say in things, but now that I do? Oh, I intend to make my voice heard. Out loud.<\/p>\n
Speak up, and Soldier on!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Perfectly expressed by my fellow writer, Ellen Lambert (who blogs at EllenOutLoud at Braveheartwomen.com)\u00a0 I woke up hearing the words, “Children don’t like it when their parents fight.”\u00a0 Ellen captures this sentiment perfectly. I grew up in a family where the parent people fought all the time. All the time. It was habitual. It was…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[352,353,354,10,355],"class_list":["post-677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-joys","tag-debt-ceiling-debate","tag-ellen-lambert","tag-ellen-out-loud","tag-mary-anne-radmacher","tag-soldier-on"],"yoast_head":"\n