Grandpa whooped Dad for smokin’ behind the barn. Pa whooped us for smokin’, barn or not. Today, parents take the whoopin’s when their kids are caught smokin’.
Time was, when Mom or Dad caught their off spring out of bounds, discipline was expected, not by outsiders either; it was expected by the errant youngsters. In addition any kid knew it would be terrible to endure. Physically without doubt, and emotionally most assuredly.
Smokin’ behind the barn was apt to make a young fellow turn several shades of green, turquoise or maybe even blue; and gosh awful sick too after grandpa caught wind of that tell tail aroma. (A sound cuffing was a certainty.)
Smokin’ in the boy’s room was even worse: All the above, Suspension from school, and public humiliation to boot! (Caught in School!)
Now, things are different. The children today have what those who came before only dreamed of: A Big Brother. An Omnipotent Protector.
This “big brother” has made the actual discipline of a child something which is only spoken of privately by parents; oh the words are said in front of an errant off spring, but not ever actually carried out. Not because children no longer need that sort of firm, sometimes stern, guidance, because they do. Not because today’s parents care less for their children than yesterdays parents did; because they do care about the sort of persons their children become just as their parents did.
Neither is it because today’s children have anything which prevents a caring parents stern enforcement of what have been proven guidelines for living upon today’s children and thereby producing good, honest, hard working, solid citizens. No, today’s children need the same guidelines and lessons all their parents, parents, parents were raised under, and are those who built this country with their honest sweat.
What they did wrong was to leave the running of this country to “someone else”, and those “someone else’s”, while the rest of us were “to busy”, passed laws which are now crippling our families by dictating how our children are to be raised.
Now, without discipline, our children reach the age of majority without having learned respect or integrity. Who have no self esteem, no pride in themselves or their families, schools, jobs, professions. People who regularly lie, cheat and even worse to get a paycheck, not a job.
Most importantly however is these are the people whose loyalty this country must rely on to keep us a free nation.
LOYALTY? What could the above described individuals ever be loyal to? They turn on their families and friends for self gain at the bidding of CSD and Law Enforcement, at times with no purpose other than vengeance.