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David O. McKay, an LDS prophet said "No success can compensate for failure in the home."
That was 50 years ago. Parents need to be parents.
If my folks got a call from the principle...there were consequences!
If I lied to my folks, the consequences included a belt. I only lied to them 3 times before I decided telling the truth and being grounded was the way to go.
My parents knew the difference between discipline and abuse, because they were taught by their parents.
Today, if a kid deserves a whack on the butt, dad goes to jail.
But if the kid steals a car, dad is responsible. Anyone besides me see a problem with this?
The other place it started was actually a time: it started with hippies, flower children, and liberals, in the late '60's and 1970's. They despised everything their parents stood for, from working full time fathers, to maternal, stay-at-home mothers. They named their children things like, "rain, flower, and sunshine," and turned them loose to just "be themselves." These children were your grand-parents. Since they were raised with little discipline, they grew up to be less-disciplined parents who flouted society's taboos, especially the taboo that said it was WRONG to bear children out of wedlock. Well, years and years went by, and your parents' generation became adults, and there was almost nothing left of society the way it was when it was good.
The schools had been ultra-liberalized during the forty years that Democrats controlled both houses of Congress; the playing field was leveled so many times that now it's just a big hole in the ground, and the bar was lowered so many times that today it has grass growing around it. It used to be that parents and teachers worked together to raise children UP to the bar, including keeping children back a year if they were not reading at a first grade level at the end of first grade. But not any more, oh no. It might hurt their itty bitty self-esteem if they had to stay back, and that was held, by liberals, to be more important than learning to read, even though reading is the foundation upon which all the rest of education is built.
And here we are today, with a 55% divorce rate because young adults have no self-discipline and no morals. To be continued...
The saddest thing is the girls of today. They have no respect for their parents, no respect for each other, and, most importantly, they have no respect for themselves. They have no sense of modesty, and often dress like hookers. The boys run around with a half-hard-on all the time because the girls are only half-dressed, and they start mating and breeding before they even understand what they are doing.
They don't learn about birth control, and they don't know anything about their bodies, but they think they know everything about everything. I don't even care if they roll around on the floor together at school, if only they would be adult enough to responsibly use birth control pills, so they don't bring innocent babies into their sad, wasted lives.
That's a pretty bleak picture, I know, but it's a pretty bleak society we live in today. I certainly don't mean to say that ALL children or ALL parents fit into these examples I have given. Not at all, because there are some parents who ARE raising their kids to be good kids with some sense of morals. But I think that most of our kids are lost and wandering, and don't know what to do to make their lives better.