I don't get it; what have kids ever done to make this world hate, dislike, and detest them? What have babies and children done to be so disliked and unwanted? To answer my own question.....absolutely nothing! It's the truth. Today's kids, yesteryear's kids...they haven't done anything at all to deserve such treatment, and such hard feelings. Yes, today's generation of children, is, to say the least, shocking. Their disrespectful manner to everyone and everything, their violent behavior which is so common now-a-days, their down-right, out-right rebellion toward everyone and everything is offensive and disgusting! But, can we really blame the children? Is it really their fault? I think not. Yes, they have to answer to their actions, but...
"If you suffer your people to be ill-educated and their manners corrupted from infancy, and then punish them for those crimes to which their first education disposed them, what else is to be concluded, sire, but that you first make thieves and then punish them?""
(Thomas Moore)
Now, I'm not saying that children shouldn't be punished and corrected for their wrong behavior, not at all. Don't get me wrong; I believe in punishing, correcting, disciplining, and spanking children when they misbehave and commit improper, and unjust deeds. But....when parents refuse to punish their children, and teach them what is acceptable behavior and unacceptable behavior; when parents refuse to make their children listen to them and behave; when parents refuse to take their responsibility of raising their children correctly; when parents refuse to keep their teenagers in check and make them behave, and not get away with things just because they're older, or because they(the parents) don't want to get in a fight with their teenagers, how can you expect the children to act any different, when their parents won't educate them on wrong and right, and what they can and can not get away with?! If parents won't correct their children's manners, behavior, and actions, then how can they expect their children to behave properly, when they haven't been taught to; when they have been allowed to get away with everything under the sun without real punishment? If you don't give them boundaries, what makes you think that they will stay within boundaries? All they need is to be raised properly, to be given boundaries, to know, by experience, that they will be punished if they over-step those boundaries, that they will not get away with bad behavior; to be made to obey their parents or be punished, to be taught what is acceptable and unacceptable behavior. And to be taught, love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control.
"If you suffer your people to be ill-educated and their manners corrupted from infancy, and then punish them for those crimes to which their first education disposed them, what else is to be concluded, sire, but that you first make thieves and then punish them?""
(Thomas Moore)
Now, I'm not saying that children shouldn't be punished and corrected for their wrong behavior, not at all. Don't get me wrong; I believe in punishing, correcting, disciplining, and spanking children when they misbehave and commit improper, and unjust deeds. But....when parents refuse to punish their children, and teach them what is acceptable behavior and unacceptable behavior; when parents refuse to make their children listen to them and behave; when parents refuse to take their responsibility of raising their children correctly; when parents refuse to keep their teenagers in check and make them behave, and not get away with things just because they're older, or because they(the parents) don't want to get in a fight with their teenagers, how can you expect the children to act any different, when their parents won't educate them on wrong and right, and what they can and can not get away with?! If parents won't correct their children's manners, behavior, and actions, then how can they expect their children to behave properly, when they haven't been taught to; when they have been allowed to get away with everything under the sun without real punishment? If you don't give them boundaries, what makes you think that they will stay within boundaries? All they need is to be raised properly, to be given boundaries, to know, by experience, that they will be punished if they over-step those boundaries, that they will not get away with bad behavior; to be made to obey their parents or be punished, to be taught what is acceptable and unacceptable behavior. And to be taught, love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control.
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Dearest Cara Beth,
Reading these last two posts, it would appear that you have gotten better and that your strength is returning!!! LOl You have your spunky side back :-) Praise the Lord!
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Yes, I am feeling much better, though I'm not completely well yet. And my spunky side usually doesn't leave me when I'm sick, I just can't talk because I lose my voice and so sound like a half-dead, dying duck crossed with a dead cat! :)
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