This state mandated attitude is really worthless stuff. Someone does something very bad somewhere, so they make a law that creates even more problems. I wish our government didn't feel like they have to legislate every sector of our lives to create some kind of lollipop utopia where kids never need discipline...life isn't like that, and kids aren't like that.
I remember growing up with kids who were victims of many alternative lifestyles: odd religions, group marriages, vegetarians, no-TV, home-made clothes, cults, substance abuse, 7-marriages in 10 years, and endless types of other authority-defying twitches. The kids who didn't end up dead or in jail usually became just as messed up, or frighteningly conservative (doubtlessly a reaction to their parent's lifestyle)...much to the chagrin of their parents.
My parents were very conservative by comparison in those days, and I was so shy I didn't have my first date until I was 19. I look back on those days and I see what a totally open, permissive world without boundaries or discipline does to kids... they will find authority somewhere if you don't show it.
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Date: 2007-11-28 06:20 pm (UTC)I remember growing up with kids who were victims of many alternative lifestyles: odd religions, group marriages, vegetarians, no-TV, home-made clothes, cults, substance abuse, 7-marriages in 10 years, and endless types of other authority-defying twitches. The kids who didn't end up dead or in jail usually became just as messed up, or frighteningly conservative (doubtlessly a reaction to their parent's lifestyle)...much to the chagrin of their parents.
My parents were very conservative by comparison in those days, and I was so shy I didn't have my first date until I was 19. I look back on those days and I see what a totally open, permissive world without boundaries or discipline does to kids... they will find authority somewhere if you don't show it.
hmmm not quite a rant...