few days since my last thought

I was browsing? surfing? Reading Knet homepages this morning and saw that a friend of mine named Bill Albany had updated. Now Bill is a smart man who is also one of the nicest guys I know, anyways I was reading his thoughts and got to thinking. He wrote something along the lines of and I am para-phrasing here "teach your children left from right and the difference between black and white, and to not expect them to learn it on their own". Now I fully agree with him on that, but also have my own ideas on what the school of parenting curriculum should include. I as a parent believe it is our responsibility to show kids a certain amount of reality....and by that I mean tell them things like "the world is tough and it will poop on you alot" and not to coddle them to the point that they think they live in a world made of marshmallows and candy. I don't mean so hard that you are mean, but be real........I think kids grow up smarter and more able to cope with tougher times if we as parents are a little more real with them.