Recent conversations have led me to believe there is one huge and unbelievable differences between generations that were born in the 1940s and 1950s, and yes even the 1960s, and todays modern generations born in the 1980s until today. It seems if you look around the kids are heavier, layzier, and less mannered too. They get rude to adults and peers and to anyone that doesn’t give them what they want. Sadly, this is from a lack of discipline. Now I am not saying beat your kids, or abuse them here I am saying discipline them and teach them manners and that they can’t get everything they want. Spoiling your child is just as bad as abusing your child in many cases, for they think they can have it all without working for it.
I see many instances of children being disrespectful to their parents in stores as I shop and look around. I also see parents who yank their children around and verbally abuse them too. Certain things changed over the decades that hurt the American society more than helped it.
They started allowing children to divorce their parents, why is that. It would never have happened in my parents world. Then they told parents by way of shows like The Bill Cosby Show in the 1980s, talk to your children, don’t hit them. A Psychological approach to raising children is one thing, but not to spank or slap a child at all is not right either. There is indeed a thin line between discipline and abuse. But you can also corrupt and damage your child by spoiling the hell out of them so be careful folks.
When I grew up in the 1960s, there were no such things as computers, PCS, Tablets, Game Consoles . We were given books to read, Erector sets to build with, doll houses for girls, and sleds, bikes, and skates were big for kids or balls for sports. No one gave us a X-Box 360/ a PlayStation 3, A Wii, or any other electronic toy. Sadly today too many children have all of them or at least one and are spoiled and hypnotised by video-games and the internet and can’t live without them. We did, why can’t our kids today do the same.
My parents sent us outside to play, explore the world, check out mother nature, shovel your walkways, play 1,2,3 Red Light, Dodge Ball, climb a tree, play football or baseball, get exercise. Today too many kids are sitting in front of big screen flat panel TVs and monitors using only their fingers to play. So we now have a society of lazy,heavy-set children growing up, raising children. Sad isn’t it!.
America always wants to know what to do to better the country and it’s people, well here is a little advise for you all. Stop spoiling the kids and giving them everything they want, break them away from the video games and consoles and PCs, and make them play ball, play with friends outside and exercise some. Feed them veggies and meats and make them do chores. Guess what world and America, we will then have a healthier and smarter society.
In the 1960s, parents gave us books, Erector sets, balls for sports, and made us respect them, for if you didn’t they would cuff you one and tell you. Today you slap a child or cuff them one they want to take the child from you, or the child cries abuse. That is crap America ask any country in the world, you have to discipline and not all is restricting, or talking, sometimes you have to get a child’s attention so you yell or cuff them one. It didn’t kill anyone before and it won’t now. Now before someone comes back and says I am advocating abusing children, wrong, I am not. I am advocating disciplining and teaching a child right from wrong, how to respect each other and their parents. That is all I advocate ok, not talk to them and let them shit on you and spoiling them so they can’t even take the garbage out. Make them know the one thing the older generations know and America should know, we didn’t get this land by sitting on our asses, we worked to earn it all.
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