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My name is Brad Stine. To my friends I am simply In reality I don’t care what an adult refers to Are you listening all you politically correct, I had a kid refer to me as Mr. Brad the other Only in this new age of PC crap-ola would this <\/span>They <\/span>They grew up with Barney. Not Mr. Dinosaur, or Captain Carnivore… Grandpa used to be a term of endearment. An <\/span><\/p>\n We keep this up and the next thing you know Kids need to be taught respect of their elders If you are a parent and don’t have your kids <\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" My name is Brad Stine. To my friends I am simply referred to as brad. Anyone else can refer to me as sir, your majesty, your eminence, or any number of titles befitting my exalted position as professional laugh master and future has-been. In reality I don’t care what an adult refers to me as,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":223,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,1,6,3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-living","category-comedy","category-family-life","category-news-and-current-events","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"\n
\nreferred to as brad. Anyone else can refer to me as sir, your majesty, your eminence,
\nor any number of titles befitting my exalted position as professional laugh
\nmaster and future has-been.<\/span><\/p>\n
\nme as, BUT I do have a problem with what kids call me. To anyone younger than
\nme and hasn’t been given different instructions shut up and listen close. My
\nname is and always will be Mr. Stine.<\/span><\/p>\n
\noversensitive, let’s lower ourselves to the kids level, pampering, na\u00efve dorks?<\/span><\/p>\n
\nday. Mr. Brad? What former hippie inspired neo-cultural reference is that, and
\nwho thinks it’s appropriate. We have kids bringing guns to school to wipe out
\nthere classmates and there are adults that believe expecting kids to respect
\ntheir last name is too oppressive?<\/span><\/p>\n
\npass by unnoticed. I grew up with Captain Kangaroo. That’s right Captain…”KANGAROO”
\nnot Captain “Tim”. <\/span>I grew up with
\nMr. ROGERS not Mr. FRED. Making ourselves too familiar and accessible to kids
\nis only going to bring us down to their level not raise them up to ours.<\/span><\/p>\n
\nhave to earn<\/b> the right to be
\nconsidered adults. This isn’t helped when the icons they grew up with didn’t
\nconsider themselves unique or, more disturbing, didn’t want<\/i> to be considered more MATURE!<\/span><\/p>\n
\njust good old reliable don’t expect any adult perimeters from ya barney. “Duh,…
\nlook kids I’m just as dumb as you are! Do de do de do!” Blues clues refer to
\ntheir host as ” Steve” and later ” Joe”. Where’s the respect? Where’s the
\nsubjugating yourself to a superior? <\/span><\/p>\n
\nacknowledgement of a life lived and experience gained. Now it’s a derogatory
\nterm meaning ” old and useless”. ” Get outta my way Grandpa, I just got my
\ndrivers license and I can’t wait to abuse it!”<\/span><\/p>\n
\nteachers are going to start dating the kids after they finish their homework…oh
\nwait, that’s already happening. How many new cases each day do we hear of a
\nteacher having sexual relations with her student? It couldn’t have anything to
\ndo with the 24-year-old intern referring to herself as Miss Bambi to the 17
\nyear old boys she teaches could it?<\/span><\/p>\n
\nnot another way to diminish the line between adulthood and adolescence. There
\nhas to be a specific delineation that constantly reminds the young ones that we
\nas adults are still smarter, more experienced, and better than they are.<\/span><\/p>\n
\nrefer to you as mom Nancy or dad Bob why would you let them speak to other
\nadults like that? I know I know, some of you may think I’m being a little hard
\non you and the truth is…I am. That’s what I do. Someone has got to teach the
\ncountry how to get back to sanity. I do it because it’s my calling and my life
\npurpose. Oh yeah, and cause they pay me.<\/span><\/p>\n