Kids Can Be Ridiculous Essay

Kids can be ridiculous; My little brother is at times preposterously infuriating — don’t get me wrong he’s probably the single most important person in my life — but that doesn’t mean he hasn’t done things that make me want to tackle him and just shout “Why!?” (I mean who doesn’t feel like that about a sibling at some point). One topic me and the little devil clashed on was about how after a shower my little brother would walk out onto the bathroom floor before he dried off. This proceeded to make using the restroom after he had been washing like traversing a marshy wetland and altogether a rather foul experience. Now the day after we spoke about this my brother comes out of the shower, we happen to pass each other as he comes out and the second my foot hit the bathroom floor I felt …show more content…
It was wet before I got in there”. I actually laughed, he had obviously forgotten and his first response to my anger was to push blame off of himself. I can’t really blame the kid (yes the kid) because he hasn’t grown up into the man he is supposed to be, he is still a child and it is OK for children to not fully grasp consequences for their actions (annoyingly long seemingly irrelevant intro story over). Taking responsibility for your own actions is something that most people in society accept is a major step of growing up into an adult. Which begs the question why is the plague of fat acceptance being allowed to flourish in our society now. The fat acceptance movement provides an easy “out” for unhealthy people that blame society (in a fairly hostile way) for not catering to their body types, organizations like Health At Every Size (HAES from now on) spread false information allowing people to believe they are able to simultaneously maintain their health and weight, and discourages people from seeing the possibility of becoming