Posted on 02/25/2018 3:49:38 PM PST by Altura Ct.
I think that what happened was that we told God to leave us alone. Bad idea, that.
Beginning 1949 -
https://www.cnn.com/2013/09/16/us/20-deadliest-mass-shootings-in-u-s-history-fast-facts/index.html
The Antichrist will have his empire in Europe, not the US. Satan has used the US as an ATM, and with his bag of cash and tech, he’s ready to set up camp over yonder. We have been past tense for some time.
ADHD still does not exist. It was created out of lazy parents wanting heir kids to not be kids. They want zombies that sit in front of a TV and make no sound.
Interesting read.
We can see from this, that many changes in recent decades have not been positive changes.
I don’t really agree with all of it but for the most part, right on. Feminism, I think, is the number one cause of the demise of civilized society. I mean, can you imagine even as little as 5 years ago, grown women wearing large, realistic twat costumes?
Someone pointed out the other day that today’s youth have grown up extremely cynical about the pillars of our society. It doesn’t help to see the current 24/7 hysterical negativity about the president to the point they have to spread lies about him. Truly damaging to our country.
Kids in fly over country were mostly in serious Sunday School and in then into the pew with parents for serious Church all Sunday mornings. No therapeutic warm and fuzzy churches then.
By the 60’s those of us raised in the wheat fields had still never even seen marijuana.
Our dads were WWII veterans and even my beautiful mother and gorgeous aunts were Rosie the Riveters, having traveled to the big cities where air bases held their men, during the week.
Religious people and no nonsense, but virtuous and hard working, patriotic. Our cattle ranch country and farmland education was the same.
All that mattered and America was Mega Great, until the frog began to boil and over time, much was shattered.
You start with the legalized killing of unborn children add hollywoods non-stop love affair with gun violence and death, mix with some prescription drugs or otherwise and a void of meaningful faith...and here we are.
Creeping Marxism ... period.
They set as their goal to overtake the schools in this country. “Political Correctness” ... an idea set forth by Lenin during the Bolshevik revolution was imported to this country.
It can be easily seen starting in the mid 60’s with the Drug culture, Free Sex, etc... Anything to destroy the norms of the USA.
Once the first batch of college kids were indoctrinated, it spread exponentially.
There was an epidemic when my kids were in school; kids that I had known from birth or shortly after were diagnosed left and right. Mostly boys, but the point I want to make is every single one that I knew personally seemed perfectly normal to me- and it was not the parents that “discovered” they were ADHD or even had concerns about their kids. The push was from the school!!
It was always the same thing, the teacher would approach the parents that “little Johnny” was having a hard time focusing in school and would benefit from a visit to the doctor. In this area it was a specific doctor in the nearest large town. The doctor would do tests and the child would be diagnosed with ADHD and put on Ritalin. I don’t know of a single child that went and was not diagnosed and medicated.
I have my own idea that schools were getting money for Special Ed. students, and for some reason the money was great for ADHD. I say that because it took off like wildfire, the parents seemed hesitant but the school would push and it would happen in most cases. As it turned out medicated children are easier to handle so it ended up being a win/win...or seemed to be at the time. It became the thing to do, countless stories in women’s magazines and morning shows on TV also promoted it.
I think the school not only profited by all the ADHD diagnosed students, but there were other issues. Often funding is tied to test scores, and if a student was considered Special Ed. their test scores were not counted against the class average. The students that were recommended for treatment were average or below average students. At some point the rules changed and now only a certain percentage of students test scores can be left out of the test results. Amazingly enough the push to diagnose ADHD and drug children tapered off and it no where near as common as it was then.
Fast forward to the beginning of the meth epidemic- I had a long talk with a rehab counselor that told me nearly ALL of the patients he saw in rehab for meth had been diagnosed with ADHD and had been on Ritalin until they graduated from school and they would suddenly be denied new prescriptions. Now meth has been around long enough to have created its own following but in the beginning it was a refuge for former Ritalin drugged children.
Just my experience in my area but would not be surprised to find it was the same across the nation.
Later.
Agreed. Feminism is one of the biggest problems in America.
ADHD was created by public school teachers who wanted boys to sit down and be nice like little girls.
Yes, the school shave been the pushy ones. This has been going on at least since the 1980’s that I am aware of.
We are 8th in the incidence of mass shootings in the developed world, not first. Norway is No. 1. Our crime and murder rates are at multi-year lows.
This is media hysteria, not a “falling apart”.
Cigarette smoking was All over the place.
Priorities changed in the 80’s:
1. Divorce became the norm.
2. Mothers went to work so families could buy more unneccessary ‘stuff’.
3. Divorced (weekend) Dads substituted discipline with ‘buying love’.
4. Schools and TV became the parents.
Add 30 years to that:
1. Single parent homes is the norm.
2. All kids have I-phones, cable, I-Pads, their own TV, social media, and video games.
3. God is gone, values and morals (right and wrong) is defined by teachers and Hollywood.
4. Social Media has created an Anti-social culture. Evryone is looking at everyone else’s posts, but not engaging in a meaningful way.
5. Family unit: Parents pay the bills, kids do what they want, they are roommates. Parents are not parenting, they are babysitting.
Add to that the pressure to agree or be ostersized. The PC culture, the shaming, and the lack of critical thinking are visible everywhere. Children are raising themselves while parents chase a buck so they can buy unnecessary ‘stuff’ (bigger houses, cars, boats, wardrobes, fine dining, etc.)
How to fix it:
Change your priorities.
Don’t have a child out of wedlock.
Do not get married before 25.
Start working at 18.
Move out of your parents house at 18.
Spend most of your time with your children, quality time.
Children should not have phones (except for emergencies, not for fun), or be on the internet. Children should not be watching TV unsupervised. Children should have chores. Children should be taught, not babysat. Bad behavior should be punished, not excused.
If a parent ends up divorced, dating should be invisible to the child. Put the child first.
A child’s first support group is the family. With time, human interactions (playing, sports, hobbies, etc.) will create more support and self esteem. Chores teach responsibility and self esteem for a job well done. Punishing bad behavior teaches there are consequences for actions. Know what your child is doing and how he feels, be involved. It’s a simple formula
While this is a ‘big picture’ analysis, I hope it starts a conversation.
Sloppily written, but people with rose-colored glasses welded to their faces will eat this stuff up.
But then again a rural Virginia small town in the 50s(?) isn’t exactly a template for what most of the nation was even remotely like.
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