Our parents

Know what they know

Previous generations of parents would be comfortable to admit that they did not know many things

They openly worked hard so that their children would have the chance to know more

To move beyond where they had got to

Somehow this seems to have got lost

Many parents today are pretending that they know a lot

Are certain of how things are

What a joke!

Look around you who really understands why things are as they are?

Few people today know, did many ever?

Particularly today as our problems mount

Or were they always there and we just did not want to see them?

We thought we were so clever

Then along comes what we call global warming, vanishing species and introduces the idea that we are on borrowed time

Now it is official we are in a mess

Now maybe we can officially accept that we don't know as well

Finally

So lets be sympathetic to our parents they knew little about many things

Because society knew little

Humanity today knows little

The more we learn about our world the more we have to admit that we do not know very much at all

Good news

Only when we get real can we start to learn and grow

Pretending we have answers when we have no clue is not helpful

The starting pint for any enquiry has to be an inventory of what we do know

Not the bullshit

Not the perceptions

The truth

And this will take several generations to get to the truth of things because we have so many vested interests who want to deny the truth

Religions

Scientists

All have vested interests

Many would prefer to die rather than acknowledge that they do not know

So lets be kind to our parents because they did not know

Just make sure that when it is your turn that at least you have taken the trouble to inform yourself

That you know what you know and acknowledge what you don't'

So that you can have a worthwhile relationship with your children and theirs in turn

Parenting was never easy

Dome well it is the most challenging thing any of us can do

How will you do, how are you doing?