This is to those of you who can appreciate the nostalgia of the 50’s!
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The question is: Where did we go wrong? We had it all and look what we have today. A kid can’t even get an education without fear of drugs, murders, no discipline and incompetent teachers. And they have the gall to call the crap they listen to today “Rock and Roll”…
My, you are depressing…Remember what the grown-ups said about us when we were young?
Yeah, but we are right and they were wrong. 
I think most parents will say that about their kids. After all they have to live with them day in and day out. But I’m old enough to look back a number of generations…and I do not like what I see. The 50’s was a carefree time…but there was still discipline there. As the vid stated, screw up at school and what the principal did was nothing compared to what happened when you got home. Today, if the kid screws up and goes to the principal’s office…when he gets home the parents call their lawyer! It’s gone from a disciplined but carefree state to anarchy among kids.
Warren Mumpower said:OMG!!! Warren and I agree about something! Quick, someone check to see if Hell has frozen over. :D
I think most parents will say that about their kids. After all they have to live with them day in and day out. But I'm old enough to look back a number of generations...and I do not like what I see. The 50's was a carefree time...but there was still discipline there. As the vid stated, screw up at school and what the principal did was nothing compared to what happened when you got home. Today, if the kid screws up and goes to the principal's office..when he gets home the parents call their lawyer! It's gone from a disciplined but carefree state to anarchy among kids.
My Dad played poker with the High School Principle, who was also the Football Coach. I didn’t have a chance. If I screwed up at school (or got caught at it), I was a Dead Man Walking.
A few years ago, my son decided that he wanted to play hookey, so he faked an illness at school, and I was called to come get him. I was on leave from my ship, so I could go get him. As we were driving out of the school parking lot, he asked that since he no longer had to be in school, could we go to the beach? (We were living in San Diego at the time) I told him no, that if he was so sick that he could not attend school, he had to spend the rest of the day in bed, in the guest room without his video games and no TV, so he could get well enough to go back to school the next day. The shocked look on his face was priceless. After a minute or so while he digested this new information, he said, “Dad, is it OK if I just go back to school?” Of course I said, “yes,” turned the car around, and took him back to the Principal’s office where I had picked him up. The Principal was surprised to see us, but when I told him what had transpired, he chuckled and said, “Thank, you, not many parents would have done what you did.” That really did surprise me. I said nothing more to my son about it. He seems to have turned out OK, anyway.
Steve, Through grade 8 my Dad taught at the same school I attended. Wanna talk about instant karma…
Warren Mumpower said:Fr. Fred will hold therapy sessions to aide both of you. These childhood tramatic experiences can cause serious copnsequences later in life.
Steve, Through grade 8 my Dad taught at the same school I attended. Wanna talk about instant karma...:D
Fr. Fred…HURRY, one of your sermons is needed badly by these two poor souls…I know you can guide them through the calming influence of the Branch Railroadian Sect’s Doctrine.
I don’t know how I can be of much help. I was raised the same way…play sick and you pay for it…Too sick to attend school, is not a permission slip to freedom.
I also was NOT given a car as a reward for anything......I had to be able to AFFORD to own one before I could get permission to buy one. I was allowed to use the family car IF I could explain the need......but most times I was given the option of my father driving me where I NEEDED to go.
My dad was a wise, honest, and simple person…I love his memory, and I loved him when he was alive. He was generous in so many way that I appreciate more now, than when I was a kid.
Too many parents try to compete with peer pressure by trying to buy their children’s loyalty. They seldom set good examples, then blame the children.
I have had many years of observing parent/children relationships, as a probation officer and a Big Brother. It seems to me that there are too many “Experts” with long strings of degrees behid their names; telling parents how to raise their children; when any fool can see that a good dose of parental responsibility, and a great deal of that long lost commodity, COMMON SENSE, would be of better help.
Of course; no-one wants my opinion; as I've been told....."You don't understand......you don't have any kids"
To that I say.......BULL SHIT.
Marvin, my friend....you got me started.......it's hard to stop.....
Last word is that the world we are leaving is a sad bit worse than when we arrived…TOO BAD; we were given the tools to make it better, at birth, but the natural human greed made us do what we have done.
End of sermon…
Fred ,
My friend , that is not the end of your sermon , long may you continue to remind us that there used to be respect and decency in our world .
Trouble is , I think you are preaching to the converted . I cannot think of anyone who subscribes to the site who was not brought up properly .
We can only hope that some of our experience gets noticed .
Mike
Mike Morgan said:Mike
Fred , My friend , that is not the end of your sermon , long may you continue to remind us that there used to be respect and decency in our world . Trouble is , I think you are preaching to the converted . I cannot think of anyone who subscribes to the site who was not brought up properly . We can only hope that some of our experience gets noticed . Mike
Ah…er…eeee…the three above have ISSUES that resulted from an overly manipulated childhood with extreme parental oversight…I think we should slowly move toward the door…keep smiling…slowly now…almost to the door…in the doorway…RUN FOR YOUR LIFE!!!
The Lone Railroader said:Not just those three. And boarding schools weren't a free ride, neither. They took "in loco parentis" seriously.
Ah...er...eeee....the three above have ISSUES that resulted from an overly manipulated childhood with extreme parental oversight....
Talkin about schools, I found this interesting…
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“Not only do American high schools fail to educate students about U.S. history and civics, but by the time many students finish college they know even less. That’s the conclusion of ‘the largest statistically valid survey ever conducted to determine what colleges and universities are teaching their students about America’s history and institutions.’ That study, conducted for the Intercollegiate Studies Institute by the University of Connecticut’s Department of Public Policy, surveyed 14,094 college freshmen and seniors at 50 U.S. colleges and universities from Massachusetts to California. It found a stunning ignorance. Seniors scored an average of 53.2 on the 60-question civics test. That’s a big, fat F. More than half of college seniors could not identify the correct century in which the Jamestown colony was founded or name the battle that ended the American Revolution. Truly frightening, more than half also did not know that the Bill of Rights forbids the federal government from establishing a national religion. These are college seniors. Among the institutions whose students were surveyed: Dartmouth, Yale, Harvard, the University of California at Berkeley, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and the University of Michigan. It should go without saying that in a republic, civic education is a fundamental necessity. If even our elite college graduates have no idea what the First Amendment does, the country is in trouble.†—New Hampshire Union Leader
Ken I could have told you that back when I graduated…
I knew people who got degrees in Business and Computers technology who couldnt find Washington DC on a map! I would bag on them for how ignorant they were, they would always reply that “that kind of knowledge” wasnt important…idiots!
That was 15 years ago, today its far worse, we ARE a nation of idiots for the most part. Apparently knowing the latest dish of Briteny and K-fud is far more imprortant that knowing who the Speaker of the House or the Senate Majority leader is (regardless of party). People who they dont know, never will know let alone meet, are more important that knowing who is writing the laws of the nation. Ask who is the head of the United Nations? blank stare…who is the Prime Minister of Britain…ahhhhh, Paul McCartney?,
It is truely shocking how culturally illiterate we are as a nation, thats why I’ve become such a cynic regarding our ultimate future as a world leader, too many idiots playing Gameboys or worshipping ghetto thugs-come-media darlings, not enough level headed kids to equal the balance
PS
I have seen the Future of America, and its not the fate in “Children of Men”…
Mike Judge (Beavis & Butthead, King of the Hill, Office Space) last year made a movie called “Idiocracy” Its now on DVD.
The premise in Luke Wilson playes an average joe frozen in a military experiement, forgetten, and the awoken 500 years to find he’s the smartest person on the planet! Overbreeding by stupid people, coupled with mass consumer economy oversaturation, mass media as educator and fast food diets has left the world with the collective IQ of farm animals .
Scathingly funny criticism of U.S. mass consumerist lifestyles.
It was released in few theaters with NO support from the studio, because the studio was scared to death of certain demographic reactions. This despite overwhelmingly positive film reviews.
Now its on DVD, check it out. Decide for yourselves.
Well, I guess being sensitive about the gender-disoriented population and how down-trodden the Muslim brotherhood is, is more important…silly me!
I think this is very close to the mark: http://www.americanthinker.com/printpage/?url=http://www.americanthinker.com/2007/01/soft_people_hard_people.html
Boy, did that guy hit the nail on the head!!
Ken Brunt said:Did he never stop to think of the pain this caused the nail? I am shocked, horrified and appalled at this brutal indifference to the rights of ferrous attachment devices.
Boy, did that guy hit the nail on the head!!
Mike
Run a bit faster…the problem children are growing with each day’s passing.
Yes , and they are not growing up , either .
Mike