I got played and he got apple juice

I have sent out more than a few tweets complaining the ESPN thinks football is spelled S-E-C. I get annoyed whenever my friends that love a college football team from THAT confernce celebrate a National Championship from their rival. All because they are in the S-E-C. Tiger Woods finishing 137th in a golf tournament makes bigger ESPN headlines than my St. Louis Cardinals winning another World Series. Breaking news on sports channels seems to be that LeBron James sneezed today. West Coast people scream of East Coast media bias. Fox News will do everything in their power to prove left wing wrongdoing and CNN does the same thing. Everywhere in the world bias lives and thrives.

I’m far from the best dad in the world, but every once in a while I want my kids to take advantage of me. One night I was putting my son, Everton, to bed and he was crying and wouldn’t lay down and I said “What do you want.” He screamed back at me “Apple JUICE!”

I got played and he got apple juice.

I’m okay with that. I’m okay with being played and having a little bias. You couldn’t even remotely try to convince me that my kids are not awesome. I understand they have flaws and I am not shocked when I hear they get put into timeout at daycare or in a little trouble in their church class.

But in a world full of people that accuse others of inappropriate bias, I am okay to be biased to those I love. It doesn’t mean I think they should get special treatment from others. All I want is for my kids and my wife to be treated fairly by others. However, when it comes to me, I want to be biased. I want to treat them special. I want to get “played” by them because they are my kids. I want to shower my wife with extravagant love because she is MY wife. My biased has nothing to do with any other family. It only has to do with the Drake bunch in Tahlequah, Ok. Our world is tough and mean and cruel and I think it is high time someone starts showing some biased behavior to the people that live under their same roof.

Don’t make others treat your family better or make others feel inferior, but when you get into your house, let those people know that they mean more than anything to you. Like the S-E-C it might not be me being successful, but I will celebrate, LOUDLY, every success my wife acheives in her workplace. To me she is the GREATEST TEACHER IN THE WORLD. Who better to think that than her husband? To me Kanon is the most perfect little girl in the world. Who better to think that than her dad? To me Everton is the funniest dude on this planet. Who better to think that than his dad? In a world where we tear others down, I will build my family up MOST.

Oftentimes the people we treat the cruelest are those that live under our roof. We will snap at our spouse and then use a fake nice voice with a coworker on the phone. The old cliche of a family fighting on the way to church and then getting out of the car and immediately acting like everything is fine, is a cliche, because we have all been there. Your family is the least likely to disown you, so you are comfortable with them. That is why we are pulled to flipping out at home instead of at work or in the public.

But I want to start a revolution. Let’s make the home the place of pure safety. Sure it will still be crazy and messy and lived in, but what if our homes became a place of pure refuge where all the negativity in the world could be dropped and you could actually be safe with people willing to not point out your every flaw?

Be biased today.

What can you do, today, to show your spouse or kids or parents that you are in their corner?

How can you show your bias today?