The Cramer Family

One of my biggest fears is that my children will be “jerks”. You know the type, the people who think that the world owes them something or that the rules of society somehow don’t apply to them.

For example, the other day I was standing in line to pick up our salad from Cafe Rio and the guy in front of me approached the counter and said “Oh, I wasn’t able to call in my order ’cause your lines where busy, so can I just tell you what I want?”. He must have thought he found a clever way to beat the 20-30 min wait in line that “everyone else” had to go through. I’m glad the person at the counter told him that they only accepted call in orders. But he was a classic “jerk”.

I don’t want Owen and Braeden to think that the world owes them anything. I think everyone has their own moments of entitlement, but in all, I hope that I can teach them to be gracious and respectful of others. Because when it comes right down to it, people who think they deserve something for nothing are really showing their lack of respect for others. (On a side note, have you ever noticed that people who say “I’ll respect you if you respect me” are usually do not deserve respect themselves and/or do a lot of stupid things that would make you lose respect. Whenever I hear the phrase my initial placement of the individual on my totem pole of respect is dropped a few notches).

It seems this lack of respect has made it’s way to BYU. I’ve never had so many inconsiderate and rude people in my classes. Class time was continuealy being wasted on questions that could easily have been answered in the reading, but the student just couldn’t be bothered to do the assignment. I was definately not a perfect reader of assignments, but when I didn’t do the reading, you could be sure that I didin’t waste the classes time with a question.

Anyway, that’s my rant for today. I’m so glad that my boys have such a wonderful and gracious (and hot) mother who will teach them the importance of being wonderful and gracious (hotness shouldn’t be important, although I’m not complaining about my situation).