Financial Shakeup this weekend

[dmano]

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.

Parents today have no back bone. They let their kids do anything, touch anything, brake anything, take anything, do as they please and so on. I hate going out to dinner any more or breakfast. Kids running around screaming in a restaurant is unacceptable. I will not eat in a restaurant were there are families with children present. Parents today are scared to be parents of the past.

I won't spank Johnny that's not right. I will put him in time out. Real smart..... a lot of good that did.

The generation that is on this forum, I am sure your parents beat your ass when you did something wrong. I know mine did. I am glad they did as it instilled values in me that have lasted till this day. I would like to take a vote and see how many of you compared to the kids of today, were having sex at age 10, smoking pot at 10, taking drugs at age 10, killing at age 10, stealing at age 10. All these things the kids of today are doing and the parents are doing nothing about it. I am not talking poor inner city kids either. I am talking well to do, main line type family's. Why in the hell does a 6 year old need a cell phone? Why in the hell do parents drive their kids to school when there is a perfectly good bus that will pick them up. I walked to school about a 1.5 miles, today they get picked up, no wonder little Johnny has a fat ass.

Children of today have no values. They do as they please, when they want to.

Maybe the parents need a good stiff kick in the ass like the good old days.