{"id":3306,"date":"2010-02-15T14:13:11","date_gmt":"2010-02-15T22:13:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2010\/02\/15\/teaching-responsibility\/"},"modified":"2010-02-15T14:13:11","modified_gmt":"2010-02-15T22:13:11","slug":"teaching-responsibility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2010\/02\/15\/teaching-responsibility\/","title":{"rendered":"Teaching Responsibility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/responsible.jpg' title='responsible.jpg'><img src='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/responsible.thumbnail.jpg' alt='responsible.jpg' class='right' \/><\/a>We often discuss the topic of parenting, or the lack of it these days. We look around our neighborhood and see a mixed bag of the products of modern parenting. Some families seem to have their act together, with well-disciplined and polite children and teens. Others, most of them in fact, are rude, inconsiderate and irresponsible. I have no idea whether they are &#8216;victims&#8217; of California public education or not, but the schooling here doesn&#8217;t help matters any.<\/p>\n<p>We like it when we&#8217;re at the range and see gun-owning parents teaching their children about guns and shooting them. Occasionally, we see a group of scouts and their mentors at the range. That&#8217;s a good thing too. Learning about shooting and guns is a much better investment than developing a skill set only suitable for X-Games like skateboarding down a stair rail or something. <\/p>\n<p>I saw this cute poster on a forum yesterday and it got me thinking how parents and schools are letting kids down these days.<\/p>\n<p>Click on the poster for a larger view.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We often discuss the topic of parenting, or the lack of it these days. We look around our neighborhood and see a mixed bag of the&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,37,45,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-california","category-culture","category-firearms","category-people"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3306\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}