imagine who you would be if we didn't get our butt beat back then. Our parents kept us in check, we would be dead, in jail or have kids running around like every other statistic out there. I'm so glad they were hard on us and gave a damn enough to get on us when we needed it.
The parents that try to be their kids friends are the ones that end up visiting them in prison and baby sitting the ratchet grand kids on club night. There are consequences to every action as a kid and when you do bad or don't mind your elders we got our tail beat. The entire neighborhood had permission to break their foot off in our ass. We need more of that these days. Too many whining folks crying over bad kids getting what they deserve.
It truly does take a village to raise a child but now these days the whole village is messed up. So many fatherless children, young men never becoming grown men and too many young women taking the whore route because their mothers lack parental skills too. It's all bad. I think a fair balance of the different styles of parenting is needed and a CLEAR line has to be drawn letting kids know who is the authority.
Things are crazy these days. And folks wonder why so many school shootings happen and suicides. Kids are so babied and pussified these days. We grew up where if you got into it with a bully at school back then you fight until that bastard learns to leave you alone. We grew up when "time out" didn't exist, Dr Phil was still in College and Maury wasn't doing paternity tests on TV to entertain idiots. Back when getting kicked in the chest was an appropriate response to talking back to your parents and "imma give you something to cry for" was a translation for "I took it easy on you, shut up". Now you can catch a charge just for raising your kids the way you see fit, allowing these "experts" to guide you in how you raise your kids yet they DO NOT live in your household, what applies to one kid does not work for the next. i'm a fan of the Old School.......beat that ass
