Posted on 01/27/2012 4:44:09 AM PST by SeekAndFind
The things that are happenning now are not new and if history repeats itself, it won’t last.
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I wish I could share your optimism. What is different about today is that there are far too many young people who have been brought up with no religious training, with no sense of respect for anyone, and with no fear of any authority.
Moreover, these deficiencies in child-rearing are not confined to the stereotypically chronically indigent.
In times past, such unmoored youngsters were found in much smaller numbers than they are today.
Father hasn’t been the true head of the household in the entertainment world for a long time, and I truly believe it has had an effect on our culture.
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Agree
Most of the Disney films of the 60’s showed the parents, school & town officials and business leaders as buffoons or worse. It was always the teenagers and the local eccentric who saved the day.
Message: Anyone in authority was inept or not trustworthy.
Andy Griffith, Father Knows Best, Leave It to Beaver were about the last shows I remember which did not follow this Disney pattern.
I wish I could share your optimism. What is different about today is that there are far too many young people who have been brought up with no religious training, with no sense of respect for anyone, and with no fear of any authority.
I have 2 children (11 and 13) and I really NEED to be optomistic or I will just break down and cry! I am seeing that this war is winnable, but we really need to get government out of their lives and parents beack in (I’m fiesty, I never left). Most children I run into that seem at risk of falling for this stuff seem to be looking for something to be a part of. Mine are part of a family.
I hear you. Hang in there, stay in their faces even when they start acting like they want you out of their lives.
So glad my children are already raised. It was hard enough in the 1980s and 1990s.
God bless.
I hear you. Hang in there, stay in their faces even when they start acting like they want you out of their lives.
Thanks for the advice. I only get one shot at this and I am bound and determined to do the best job that I can. I see it paying off but the hardest times are yet to come (their teens!).
Yeah, those teen years can be tough, but you sound like you’re up to it.
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