blessmyendeavors

I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again…. what has happened to teaching our young to respect our elders?  Granted, just because a person is aging doesn’t make them a respectable person, just as growing up doesn’t teach a child wisdom.  Many concepts in life have to be earned.  Status has to be earned.  Respect .. has to be earned, in most cases.  But as I watched the stories of the elderly being abused by teenagers, I shudder in distaste and am forced to realize that too many of our children who are spoiled brats are growing up to be sociopathic abults. The “ME” syndrome is going too far, people.  Children have the right to a childhood free of horror of abuse;  I agree.  Abusive parents and relatives should be stopped as soon as the abuses are discovered.  However, the raising of children to be the petty tyrants of the home; led to think the world revolves around their wants and needs is creating difficulties that are affecting adults not of the child’s home.  I watch the stories of the teen girls abusing the elderly in the nursing home and see one’s father defending that girl.  I have to wonder if he’s ever considered that she might be caring for him one day, when he’s too fragile to resist ?  I suppose he thinks his little girl would never hit him.

I watch the newest case of the grandmother kidnapped and hurt;  the boy rolling his eyes as he is charged.  Did his parents abuse him; are people going to make him the victim of his upbringing?  Or is he another example of a child being the victim of too much lenience in his rearing ?  No one is guaranteed happiness in life;  no one is guarenteed that you can have everything you want.  Children who are raised to expect life, and the people involved in it, to cater to their needs are being raised with false expectations of life.  People who fear , or are too lazy, to train their children to proper behavior , such as respect of other people and their property, are doing a disservice to their children, their community, and the world.

I’m not one to quote the Bible, but I have to wonder if this one is being misused a bit..” spare the rod and spoil the child”.. ( i.e.  : no consequences for misbehavior and the child is ruined ) vs. ( ease up on the punishments and cherish them more ).   Too many are using the first version, I think.  It’s time to take control of your children, so the police don’t have to.