Jay Leno made this comment on the Tonight Show (January, 2007):
"With hurricanes, tornados, fires out of control, mud slides, flooding, severe thunderstorms tearing up the country from one end to another, and with the threat of bird flu and terrorist attacks, are we sure this is a good time to take God out of the Pledge of Allegiance?"
Society has gone nuts today. It seems no one can say or do anything naturally without offending someone. Everything has to be "politically correct." Our constitution is being attacked and our school systems are havens for idiots who are teaching our children how to be idiots. I had the opportunity to review and grade many high school level tests and was shocked to find that many of these kids who are about to graduate cannot even do the simplest of math and they have no idea how to write. Parents today seem to have no idea what parenting is about. They have more desire to be friends or buddies with their children than to teach them to be independent and capable to support themselves.
Unlike most of us who are at least 30 years old, kids are not being taught in the home to do much of anything today. How many kids know how to cook anymore? How many believe it's something they should know? How many kids are being forced, or at least encouraged to go to Church? When I was growing up, we had to go to Church whether we wanted to or not. Girls were taught by their mothers how to cook and boys were taught to take on responsibility. We were all forced to do chores…and we were not paid to do them!
Probably the worse thing that has happened to ruin our lives is the explosive media influence on them today. Kids get their values from the movies and TV programs that they watch and the music they listen to. Even if parents wanted to, they cannot compete with the garbage that is being directed at our children. Children have turned into selfish and narcissist fools, so absorbed with them selves, that they have no inclination to learn much about responsibility, values, respect and religion.
Look at the girls nowadays. They dress like prostitutes. They wear their pants so tight that it is hard to believe they can get them on. Not wearing panties and bras is the in thing today. If boys tried some of the things girls are doing today, they would be arrested for indecent exposure. Even the youngest little girls try hard to show “cleavage.” I am not a Pruitt, but how much different is the cleavage that girls are trying to show from a butt crack? They pretty much look the same to me. It is obvious that they are trying to be sex goddesses as they try so hard to be like the picture perfect models and actresses who they see on TV and in movies. They are obsessed to be “so sexy” and “so beautiful.” Didn't the word “sexy” use to have kind of a dirty connotation?
Parents were allowed to raise their children without government regulation. When we disobeyed our parents, or mouthed off to them, we were punished, and I mean punished, not given a “time out,” and then babied. We had no inclination to tell our teachers about it trying to get them into trouble. Besides, it was the parents right to punish their children.
As I heard someone say and I agree, “WE WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING! We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the streetlights came on.”
Our parents did not allow us to sit in the house and eat anytime and anything we wanted. No way did we open and close the refrigerator all day long looking for snacks. We definitely did not drink out of the bottle of milk or juice and then put it back in the fridge. That kind of behavior was forbidden and punished. We were, however, allowed to drink from the water hose outdoors…OMG! (For those who are not up on computer lingo, OMG stands for OH MY GOD, and is very commonly used by our children today.
We were allowed to build and test things and if they failed, we learned from our failures and to solve a problem. Getting a little scratched up or bruised was not a reason to be rushed to the emergency room.
We did not have MP3 players, Nintendo's, iPods, X-boxes, video games, play stations, 200 channels on cable, video movies, DVD's, surround-sound, CD's, cell phones, personal computer, Internet or chat rooms, but WE HAD FRIENDS and we went outside and found them! We had no problem walking or riding our bike to a friend's house and knocking on the door to talk to them! Imagine walking!!
If we entered contests and failed or tried out for sports and could not make it, we had to learn to deal with the disappointment! And our parents did not try to sue someone. Can you imagine that?
If we broke the law, our parents did not bail us out. They made us face up to the punishment for our actions…and they also punished us! If we landed in jail, we stayed there.
We did not treat teachers, neighbors or older people disrespectfully. If we did, they punished us and our parents approved.
We learned to be responsible and had freedom to fail or succeed. Some of the best problem solvers, risk-takers, and inventors ever, came from our time! We learned that life is pretty much what you make it. Parental guidance and teaching without government meddling and media influence helped us learn how to live. We learned to be responsible, contributing individuals and solid citizens…imagine that, after all we went through…OMG!!
