well I have kids, raise them well, set boundaries and rules, etc. etc... you're really starting to sound like many other crusty old farts, who believe every generation that comes after them are worse than their generation... stop waving your angry fist in the air yelling "get of my grass" all kids are the same in every generation, When I grew up in the 70's/80's there were more kids out late at night than I see today, there was just as much drug use and there was just as much disrespect by youth of yesterday as their is of kids today... let me guess the music was better then too?
and if you don't have kids, yes you can have an opinion but realize one thing you haven't the slightest clue as to how to raise kids because you haven't done it. I have never flown a jet, I understand the theory but wouldn't have a clue as to how to do it without some practice.
Well, I am getting older so I have a different filter but I could give a rat's ass if people think I'm getting crusty.
Seeing too much nonsense as the years pass and I've been around plenty of my friends with their kids and I know what good parenting is and isn't. I've lived in questionable neighborhoods and seen first hand what wrong, dumb parenting leads to. I don't have to be in the driver's seat to recognize bad driving. And you saying that there were more kids out late at night back in the 70's and 80's is a pure BS.
Back then the only kids out late and unsupervised were getting into trouble and their parents didn't care. I was a kid in the 70's and most of us had curfews. I constantly have conversations with older co-workers around my age or somewhat younger who are always expressing amazement at seeing all the really young kids running late at night with no curfews now.
When I was young, you couldn't talk back to your parents or a teacher or any adult. It was unthinkable to call your parent a name, by their name, hang up on them or make demands of them. You couldn't just wander around till 12 at night at 15 and not have your parents go ballastic when you got home.
You had to sneak around and hope your parents didn't catch you because you knew serious shit would happen if it did and it did. We had to do chores and help out around the house.
There was no allowance. In bed well before 11 as a teen. At 18, I still had a curfew. My brother and I weren't allowed to bring girls to our rooms because my mother said "hell, no". My mother would always say "remember, this is my house. You just happen to be living in it" And if we didn't like the rules?
She would point to the door and say "good luck". And she was right. It was her house and we had to respect the rules because she was in charge. No questions asked.
And was there drug use back when I was a teen? Yeah but we kept it to parties. We didn't go down to the club district and trash clubs, property and act in the most immature and luggan way as many on this board have rightly so, accused the
mass hordes of club goers and particularily those from the 905 area. Though our own urban youth are just as bad.
Now numerous co-workers, all from the same age group, come to work stoned, get stoned at work and are pretty much useless. When I was a teen, it was still taboo to be so public about doing drugs and the stoners were seen as losers. I could go on and on but I know I'm talking to a wall here.
What I've learned is that people who the most often accuse you of being some crusty throw back to a backwards age and just roll their eyes are either really young OR always seem to be from the left and ignore the explosion of social problems including parenting and kids that society suffers from now.
There's a huge denial machine out there trying to shut down any attempt to bring attention to this explosion and the link with parenting and unhealthy cultural themes, namely entertainment and mass media. What passes for culture now for the most part is trash. What society has become for the most part is trash.
We pander unhealthy themes to kids and have lost our way. Just recently I watched Bill Maher agree with the Tiger Mom author on his show because he basically said the same thing about our youth and young adults now. They're stupid, they're trashy and they think the world owes them. And he puts the entire blame on the parents.
And he's absolutely right. Remember this next time you guys try to figure out why so many people run around trashing things that don't belong to them.
