Back in the 1950’s and 1960’s and before then children were made to earn what they got, today they are handed things for doing nothing. They get toys and books and electronic equipment today like it was bubble gum and candy when we grew up. Sadly this is making American children into people who expect the world handed to them.
Back then when you grew up your parents weren’t afraid to smack ya on the ass or upside the head straighten you out and make you fly straight. Then came the Cosby Kids of the 1980s. Don’t hit you kids, talk to your kids, if you hit your child you can be arrested or your child can divorce you, that’s where and when we went wrong!. The old spare the rod/ spoil the child went out, it should have stayed. The people born before the late 1970s know what it is like to be cuffed upside the head, spanked and made to earn what they have, they value it more.
Today’s children have computers, electronic video games and consoles, Iphones and text phones and tablets and more. They sit in front of a computer or Television screen staring at them, and being entertained. What ever happened to go outside and play, explore the world, play with your friends in real life?.
Today, people are computer literate, but have very few social skills. Manners are a thing of the past and rudeness rules. Kids want something now and they get it by hook or by crook, by pressuring their parents into it. Parents use computers and electronic gaming consoles to babysit their children instead of reading to them or playing a game with them. I know working by both parents takes up much of a person’s time, but when you’re a parent you should make time to be with your children and teach them. Not turn them into zombies who watch Television and play Video games and Computer games all day and night!.
I see too many kids running around with Iphones, laptops,tablets, and Gaming Consoles, who have no idea what a book, or an Erector set is, or a microscope or any board games may be. Ask them to play Scrabble and they can only spell four letter words, why is that?. It is a sad state of affairs and commentary on the state of our American Children. They are slow in learning, grades and levels incomplete, unable to socially communicate properly and lazy, because of all the above. Half of them have never roller skated or ice skated, gone sledding in winter, rode a bike or even know how anymore.
What ever happened to teaching boys to work for what they want, and the same with girls. What happened to Dad making his sons help fix the house or car, or mom making their daughters clean their homes or do laundry or dishes?. Discipline in the American Society has disappeared and gone south, we need it brought back. The Generational Differences I am speaking of are lack of discipline, control, manners and a lazy attitude of they will give it to me anyway and I deserve it. That my friends is why America is failing, these new generations have no idea what it is to work for something and earn it.
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