SPEAK UP AND STAND UP.!!!

pollie July 18, 2011
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Seniors are misunderstood in today’s world. They’re regarded as old and senile, with little to contribute to society. Their considered a hindrance to the medical field and pushed aside with little attention of their needs, especially if they are terminally ill.
Well, I beg your pardon folks. These seniors grew up in the fifty’s and sixty’s best of times, and had the American dream they all strived for. They taught their children morals, discipline and when they didn’t follow the rules and boundaries set for them, a good bashing sure lined up the children in a hurry. When they said no, that meant no, final.
Today parents seem to think children require the freedom to do as they please, to develop their personality at home and anywhere they take them. BULL CRAP!!! They run wild, screaming like savages, throwing food in every direction even on restaurant floors. They leave with food lying on the floor, without one word of discipline, or no, you can’t behave in this manner. “What the hell are they thinking”? Raising kids that behave like wild animals, where do they think this is going to lead the children as teens and adults? Where?
I have visitors and friends who visit from time to time and they bring their children. When they get out of order I don’t hesitate to call them down nor tell the parent to get a handle on the children or else I’ll be in charge of the discipline. When I finish with the child, then it’s their turn for a few lessons. I have spoken to children in a tone that allowed them to understand there was authority in the voice an the look from my eyes set them down real fast. If they forgot in a few minutes what I had said, they were sent outside to roll in the grass like little maggots!!!
I am dead serious about this matter. When people with children come to your home and disrespect you and your property, it’s time to take up the issue and teach them they are a failure as a parent. They have the right to listen or leave. Someone has to inform lazy, ignorant parents that their little darling are not being enjoyed by others. They need to be informed and embarrassed now, instead of when the child is grown, and has become a misfit and menace to society. Most are despised by each other as they grow together, attending the same school or event such as baseball games and other events.
I hesitate not at all to speak up in a public places either. They need to be asked to leave the establishment and let their child have its personality developed in privacy, not as display in public —ever.
Actually this is when I really want to slap nine kinds of crap out of the ignorant parents, with great relief and then gaze upon the children as if to say your next.
Oh, I’ve vented my frustration of parents who don’t discipline their children, I feel so much better. I hope I have spoken for those who have had the same experience. This is a Public Service to all who have felt the same emotions.

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  1. Unknown Member July 18, 2011

    Very well Said Pollie as the eldest of seven children we were never allowed to run wild, talk back, we had to behave….. Discipline is missing today ….Thankyou for that…..Ann

  8. Unknown Member July 18, 2011

    Pollie, thanks so much for the mid-morning rant… I sincerely enjoyed it, and doused my keyboard in coffee after that “…nine kinds of crap…” passage… couldn’t have said it better.
    Kids (today) are certainly indulged, pandered to, over-forgiven, and taught nothing about consequence… I hate to sound contrived, but, as a kid, I would easily invite a quick crack across the chops if I exhibited a hint of disrespect… and rightly so. I believe it helped set a moral compass I’ve enjoyed since.

    Unfortunately, it’s a *much* tougher world today, and they’ll simply find out the hard way, once they’re in it, that no one’s there to clean up after their nonsense… I’m a big believer in respect for your elders… not because they may be inherently smarter, or wiser… simply because they’ve been there, and experience is the supreme teacher… which is a concept quickly fading into obscurity in Western culture.

    They don’t understand that one of the truest indicators of maturity is knowing how much they *don’t* know, and understanding how important structure, discipline, and respect are… and unfortunately, contemporary thought wants those that do know to dumb down to those that don’t…

    Thanks again…

  10. jojo July 18, 2011

    Pollie I agree one hundred percent with what you wrote. I think that the worst things to happen to humanity was Dr. Benjamin Spock who advocated not disciplining children, allowing them (his words not mine) “fin themselves and give them room to grow.” Yes right, room to grow into hooligans, ill mannered ignorant clods with no respect for anyone, including themselves. I was a young mother bringing up 3 children during the Spock era, and all the young Mum slavishly followed his cockamamie dictates. I didn’t, but believe me, mine was a voice crying out in the wilderness.

    Years later Dr. Spock publicly apologized for having written all that utter drivel on bringing up kids. Tragically, his own son committed suicide, so sadly it would seem, he’d never “found himself.

    One memory sticks in my mind like a burr. A little boy on my street, whose Mum was a Spock advocate came into our garden and knocked all my cherished rose buds off their stems with a stick. I went to his Mum and told her what he’d done. She smiled sweetly and said “Oh well, boys will be boys.”

    Doesn’t it make you want to scream?

    Thanks for writing this article Pollie I really loved it.

  11. pathill July 18, 2011

    Yes Pollie I do agree, But I will take some of the blame. When I got my first granddaughter I went totally overboard. Then when I had my first grandson I was nuts with gifts and money to him and his parents my son and His wife. Then my daughter had her first and only granddaughter and so she had it easy both ways. Grandparents on both sides spoiled with material things. Now those children are 20, 18, and 16. The only time I see them is when they want to borrow money. And for the life of me I still do no know why I give in, Probably because I raised my two a son and daughter on my own with only the help of my family. Parents and brothers and sisters alike. One time my son acted up. and my mother said ” Why are you complaining about your son when you are the one who raised him”. Everyone that I have ever known has wanted it better for their children. I wish I knew when I was younger like my father. It was family all the time. He passed away with 2.00 in his wallet and rich in family around him. P- hilly

  12. Unknown Member

    Pollie. I have seen as a street Police Officer in London for 32 yrs the total deterioration and breakdown of discipline. I am not talking even about the clip around the ear thing. If you took kids back to their home rather than to the Station, you could bet your life you were in for a mouthful from the parents too. The moment you let your kid swear at you as a parent, or get away with speaking in a disrespectful tone or manner, you are on a loser and the slippery slope begins. Then again look at some of the parent or parents! Enough said!

  13. macathy July 19, 2011

    Pollie I liked what you wrote,i often wonder what will become of the kids of today.I was very strict on my children’s behavior ,and even stricter with my grand children with me today,spend so much time telling them to respect others and themselves,seems that it isn’t something children do these days.always calling one another losers ,think there is nothing wrong with it.I even seen a teacher putting his fingers up on his head and saying looser to children.I think respect of each other is the thing that is lost to this generation as well as discipline.

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