It is getting pretty ridiculous in the theaters and other places too... Malls, restaurants, etc.
Is it me, or is this generation of kids alot harder, meaner, grumpier, and punkier than we were?? Or, am I that old that I don't remember what it was like.
If I had done something like that, my dad woulda beat the livin' crap outta me when we got home and mom told him. Perhaps that is why we (my brothers and me) were all so well behaved..??
Oracle - I am trying to control myself here from laughing...
The kids now a daze... the ones that are walking around as you say "harder, meaner, grumpier and punkier"
Please excuse the expression but they are fricken pussies.. They are fricken KIDS!!! the problem is no one is whooping their arses. Kids can go up to a complete stranger, give him attitude cuss at him whatever, and nothing happens to them. Everyone is afraid of going to jail for striking a minor, or parents are afraid of haing their kids taken away from them if they spank them because it will be considered child abuse..
I am so tired of this crap!!! sheeeesh.
You see a fricken kid out there doing something wrong, say something to him / her. and it normally is the males, females usually dont act up, and the males usually act up because there is no father figure around to put them in check..
I had one of our martial arts students the other day at my sons school acting up towards his mom. I was there picking my son up and saw and heard him to my side giving his mom grief. I turned around and walked up and told him to come here, he looked at me and came over and I said "what's your problem? why are you giving your mom grief, he shrugged his shoulders as kids do and said "I dont know" I said knock it off, you are going to be in class tonight right? and he said yeah.. I said well knock it off and I will see you in class.
his mom thanked me and he straightened his act out..
I am ALWAYS running into kids that have a chip on their shoulder, they are used to getting away with crap, most of the time you get in their face they are like "oh $hit I aint getting away with this - this time"
Kids need guidance, especially the males, they NEED to be put back in their place.
I have told and warned my three boys about this long ago, I started when they were 6 years old. I have told them as they grow up, part of the growing process is a need to test dad once in awhile (or any male figure for that matter), it is just part of becoming a man, boys gauge themselves against their fathers, whether it is on purpose or subconscious or both, they do it. And when they do it the dad has to put them back in check, and has to do it fast. So I have warned my boys, when you test me, I will be in your face and putting you back in your place.
And there have been times this has happened, I did what I said I would do, they backed down into their place and everything was fine.
It is nature, now when you have these boys running around with no father figure and no one to gauge themselves against, the push the envelope looking for that wall that is supposed to be there, and they keep pushing until they find it and often that wall is not there.. so there is nothing to stop their behavior.
As I mentioned in a previous post last month, one of my friends sons who was like 10 at the time, new kid to our household, didn’t know me or how things run around here. Was at my house for a party, was like 15 of my sons friends around.
I could tell the kid had attitude, I could tell the minute his mom dropped off.
Anyway, he thought he was the stallion of the group and was acting all bad, and even acting cocky with me and I said to him "you think you are bad don’t you?" and he said yeah Ron why? So I reached down, grabbed his ankle and held him up in the air by his ankle with one hand.. I said to him "what are you going to do now" the kids freaked I layed a hand on him, and he had no idea how to respond.
I said "yeah that’s what I thought, in my house you show me and my family respect you understand"
Since that day it is yes sir no sir or Mr. Brooks. Have never had a problem with him since. His parents still have problems with him, but when I am in the room he keeps himself in check.
My point is, there used to be a saying, it takes a town to raise a child, towns used to watch over each others kids, if a kid did something wrong in front of someone, a neighbor or someone in the town would take care of it. So kids used to not only worry about their parents kicking their arse, but ANY adult around would jack em up.
Now everyone is so paranoid of getting in trouble, that not only people have the attitude "it aint my kid, it is not MY responsibility to do anything" but fricken parents are not even keeping their own kids in check.
It is not the kids faults, they are doing what they are programmed by the gene pool to do, grow up and become men with large amounts of testosterone. It is our fault as adults for letting the mini me's get away with crap.
I guarantee you the kids these days are no meaner, harder or badder than we were when we were kids, as a mater of fact I would have to say they aint half as tough as we were. They don’t know what tough is.
Any of you out their have a problem with a kids mouthing off, put them in check, it is not hard. And if you don’t know how to inflict pain on someone with out leaving a mark, take a self defense class. I can grab a kid in a certain way to cause extreme pain without leaving any marks. And without doing any damage.
And the reasons I say this is because if you do stand up to a kid as you should, you might run across one that wants to push it to a physical level, at which point you better back it up or the kid will even feel more empowered to act like a punk. But if gets to that point and you can express to them in such a way you are not a person to mess with AND with out leaving any proof you touched them, there is probably little anyone can or will do.
The police are so fed up with kids now that they will analyze a situation and if they think something was justified, they will often just let it go.
Anyway, there is my rant. Kids are punks because we allow them to be punks.
Ask Mikey D.. he knows.. he is a school teacher..
Well that is my rant..
The bad thing is my wife wasn't all that proud, she is a High School guidance counselor and thinks I should have handled it differently, blah, blah, blah. Nevertheless they shut up and now I'm on the if it's at the drive in we can go see it thing. In the end I like to believe they learned from the experience and I don't mind having the truck all to me and my wifes self.
