March 18, 2004

• [how would you raise your kids?]
  
  i was hanging out with eddie. everytime i meet this guy, i always talk about serious stuff. anyways, so he told me that the owner of “johnson & johnson” gave none of his wealth to his children. he claimed that he wants his children to start from the scratch and gain all the experience that he had to go through to become successful. i agree. but eddie didn’t. then it hit me. HOW AM I GOING TO RAISE MY KIDS?
  
  here’s how i’m going to do it.
  
  i would deprive my kids from everything except healthy food and good education. he or she will rock payless shoes and t.j max clothes until he gets into good college. why? because my mama raised me that way. well, i rocked payless shoes until i got into highschool.
  
  he or she will earn for everything. it means no gift. no christmas. no birthday. nada! why? he’ll learn that life is a unfair and he or she will work his or her tail off to get rich. ok. fine. maybe that’s too harsh. but i’ll stop buying gift when they turn 14 or 15. if my kids are females, then i guess i’ll have to disregard what i just wrote.
  
  they will do every chores, once they learn how to walk, talk, and count. so i’m guessing around age 7 or 8, they will begin to do small chores such as doing dishes and taking out trash. of course i will help them, too. and they’ll get paid. like a real life situation. 2 dollars per hour. whatever they are doing. faster they do it, they’ll get a raise. and i’m going to tax their butt to show them how bitch it is to get your money taken away by irs.
  
  i’m not sure if beating would work. well, my dad beat the living crap out of me. not in abusive way. but a lot of females don’t like that idea. so most likely, my future wife wouldn’t approve that idea either. i’ll just make them run a mile or something. basically i’ll punish them by making them do some hardcore exercise that doesn’t stun their growth. so it’ll keep them in shape.
  
  my kids are going to be hardcore. boy or girl. doesn’t matter. they are taking kickboxing or kendo. and learn to “KEEP IT REAL” when they have to. what i’m saying is that they need to learn how to defend themselves in honorable way. hand to hand combat that is. i got picked on by a lot of white kids. and i had to “KEEP IT REAL.” so i hospitalized one kid and got suspended for 10 days. ok, they don’t have to go that far. minorities get picked on very easily. especially if you are asian. i think fighting is ok. i mean, they are just kids. they are not going to kill each other. i’m sure they would think about busting each other’s face really hard. but i hardly doubt that they want to stab each other’s guts out. in terms of other extra-curricular activities, they’ll have to WANT to do it. because making them play sports that they have no interest in is a waste of my time and my money. i do prefer that they play lacrosse and basketball.
  
  they will have a field trip with their daddy, ME! they will go to projects and visit bunch of poor people. there are two objectives on this.
  
  1. help out the poor people who are striving.
  2. don’t dick around and end up like them.
  
  ok. i might have to reconsider that. that sounds little traumatizing. but i would like them to learn those two valuable lessons. being benevolent and having fears to hit the rockbottom. ok. i should emphasize the fact that education will help them to prevent them from being poor.
  
  all the things i wrote above can be changed. but this one is a MUST. they will go to church every sunday. i think their childhood will be more brighter. when i look back, i think i had so much fun. and it helped me to start my spiritual walk faster. then again, who knows. they can start theirs later. well, doesn’t matter. if they skip church or whine about going. they are going to run 3 miles or maybe even more.
  
  well i’m out of ideas. but i’m considering about taking “child development” course so i can be a better father. wow, i can’t believe i’m thinking about these stuff. i’m still young.

  p.s – tell me if you guys have other interesting or profound ideas. kids are our future!

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