Financial Shakeup this weekend

[catchacab]

Wellardmac wrote:

You make a good point in that discipline has been eroded. Corporal punishment is not illegal, despite what some do-gooders would like to believe. Without discipline kids cannot learn boundaries and all hell breaks loose.

As for giving drugs to kids to make them behave - that's just reprehensible. There's no excuse for avoiding the issue by turning kids into zombies. Discipline is the answer.

Now, I fundamentally disagree with the comment on the teenage cancer patient. He's 16 years old and old enough to understand cause, effect, and consequence. If he wants to follow that path, then that's fine in my book, who are we to tell him what to do with his body? You wouldn't do it to a 17 or 18 year old, why would you do it to a 16 year old? By the time the case went to court he was 17, going on 18, is it still acceptable to tell him what's best for him? We used to have kids working and having families at that age - it's only our current society that wraps them in cotton wool and refuses to let them grow up.

Now that we agree that discipline has eroded, how do we re-introduce discipline? How do you teach a parent to administer appropriate discipline? How do you get a parent who was not disciplined appropriately to accept that discipline is OK? For those parents that refuse to discipline their children, how do you manage their behavior in public (school)? Another problem is that people are not willing to accept responsibility. It is always some one else's fault.

Many of today's parents were not adequately disciplined themselves. Many parents do not want to discipline their children, it is easier at the time just to give their child what the child wants to pacify the child.

Television, radio, movies and the Internet has made inappropriate material for children all to easy for children to access. Many parents do not monitor what their kids see. Many of my 5 y.o. daughter's friends are getting into Hannah Montana. I watched a couple of episodes on the Disney Channel with her and determined that it is not appropriate material for a five year old. Hannah has a smart mouth. If I talked to my parents, they way she does at 15 years old, I would have been punished.

John Rosemond in his lecture that I attended discussed that the modern generation although exposed to more worldly experiences than prior generations, the modern generations are generally less mature at the same age. I guess that is why they say today's 50 is yesterday' s 30. He goes on to state that in generations past the age of independence (when an individual was prepared to live on his/her own) is much lower than it is today.



In regards to the cancer patient. Will it benefit him if he was allowed to try the alternative therapy and die. On his death bed at age 20 how will it have helped him to say, I made a mistake, I should have listened to the doctors. Is it better for him at age 30 to look back thanking the doctors who saved his life?