Deafness

I have read that adults seem to be having more and more trouble with hearing loss. The theory is that we spend too much time with headphones, ear pieces, and phones attached to our ears. The thought is that these electronic devices are causes us to go deaf. My belief is that it has nothing to do with that. I believe children are the cause of this irreversible damage. Allow me to explain.

When I was younger, my mother used to constantly lament about how loud we were. It seemed like every time we turned around she was telling us to be quiet in some form or another:

Ssshhh!
Hush!
Will you please quiet down!?
BE QUIET!
You are SO loud!


As a child I thought she was being ridiculous and unreasonable. I often would internally joke that she can never hear you when you're screaming her name, but when you're talking normally with your sisters THAT is just much too loud for her ears.

I now know, as an adult and mother of fifteen thousand children, that this is known as selective hearing. It's not that we don't hear our children screaming MOOOOOMMMMM!!!!!!!! It's simply that we are wondering why, just why, they won't get up and come to us. We are also wondering why they must require motherly intervention in almost all circumstances. I kid you not, in a half hour period, I will field at least twenty MOOOOOOOOM moments. No. joke.

My ears have also become repulsed by the ridiculous volumes that my children can escalate to. Take a car ride, for example. In normal circumstances, the children are incredibly loud. They are so loud that you wouldn't hear a siren, music on the radio, or your own thoughts. In order to be heard over their intense noise, you have to literally shout louder than you believe capable (and even in this situation, you can barely be heard).

So you might be wondering, people have been having children um...forever? So why is she blaming this on the kids. Here is my theory...

Think back, maybe a hundred years ago... Mom's were busy cooking, cleaning, working. They grew children, delivered them, and then went to work. I mean, sure they would assist in the raising of children but they didn't spend the majority of the day with their chicken nuggets running around them, confined in a car with them, cramped into a house with them. Back in those days, nature spent a lot of time with the kids. Now? People do. They are cramped into classrooms, cars, houses, stores, malls, etc etc etc. There is very little nature exploration.

What is the solution? Get back to basics! Why have we become so buildingized? Why don't we allow, encourage, and participate in the freedom (and nature loving) of our children? We live in a nation where we talk about freedom like it's some candy coated dose of carbohydrate goodness, but then proceed to imprison children in educational systems that don't work, with activities that stress them, and social pressures that depress them. What do our children really know about freedom? Truthfully...what do we? Are we really free? Not as much as we think we are. Look at it this way...I am not "free" to drive my car without a seat belt on. Why? I'm an insured, driver's licensed adult. If I want to be stupid and not wear my seat belt, why do I have to pay fines which will eventually lead up to my inability to drive? How is that freedom? Why can't I drink if I am legally an adult at 18? If the law says I am an adult, then why did I have to wait to be an older "adult"? If my body is truly MY body (like all of the pro abortionists like to keep right on saying...) then why do I HAVE to wear a seat belt, am not allowed to drink at 18, can't legally sell one of my kidneys, I can't commit suicide, and on and on.

Maybe this is all a part of some grand conspiracy. Imprison them young, blind them to thinking critically, then spoon feed their ignorant minds with notions of freedom and ability. Then put them into environments so that they'll become deaf. By the time they're old enough to have hopefully gained the ability to think critically, they'll be too hard of hearing to catch on to the manipulations...

Yup. I think that's it! LOL!