Old Ideas

Old Ideas of raising and rearing children have been pushed by the way side for far to long....Well, it's time to bring them back! There is nothing wrong with a bar of soap for a filthy mouth. I got the bar from my granny...in the mouth...scraped across the teeth when it was pulled out. After a few times of that, i learned to at least keep my mouth shut within hearing distance of an adult. And then there was that wooden spoon. You know then one...it could catch you up-side the head at 30 yards if you thought you could sneak your fingers where they didn't belong. For those times when you tested your parents patience to the final limit, there was a swift couple of whacks across the hind end to correct the situation. And getting in trouble at school was a no-no. The trip to the principle was no where near the fear of him calling your house and the terrible anticipation of what was waiting for you at home. And lets not forget those fabled words of dread "You just wait till your father gets home". In those days every child new what it meant "not to be able to sit down for a week"....and we feared it! It was common place for children to have a healthy fear of their parents. If you acted up, their were consequences to be paid.

It's time we started to bring these old ideas back. They have been missing for far to long. Today we here teenagers cussing out their parents in the grocery over a sucker. We see students slapping teachers. We see a rise in young kids stealing anything that isn't bolted down. Children are beating on their siblings. And some kids have severe eating disorders all in the name of making someone else happy.

I may only be 38 years old....and I recall my grandmother saying exactly what I'm now thinking:

"Things sure have changed for the worse since I was a kid...and it don't look to be getting any better"