Message #11314

[daisylee]

I'm not a parent, but I was a child.  I know things are so much different now than they ever were when most of us were young...my parents worked, but it was to put a roof over our heads.  We never had hundreds of dollars in disposable income.  We were also taught RESPECT, for all parents.  Ours, our neighbor's, your school friends.  ACCOUNTABILITY was what you did to keep from being whipped...and even then, you took your medicine.  And would our parents be in fear of us?  No way...and I still knew just exactly how much I was loved.  We, as a society, like in the article DJ quoted from, have put all the emphasis in the wrong places.  We teach and extol the virtues of instant gratification and entitlement, then scratch our heads when kids do things like this...what else is it other that the need to get exactly what you feel you deserve, or punish offenders who don't give you what YOU want? In the past, if you had a beef with a peer, the worst of it would usually be a kicking, punching, brawl.  And you either learned to live with that person after that, or you simply ignored them.  What a shame when we have the capability as a species to do so many miraculous things, we STILL resort to extreme violence to resolve conflict?!?



I pray for all the children out there, that they won't always have to live in fear..



Sad, but hopeful

Daisylee