Kids today can't do math without a calculator and are fat because of fast and junk food and not playing outside in the dirt. I won't go into how I walked 5 miles barefoot in 3 ft of snow to get to school; but I did go to school and teachers could disipline and we actually learned. Instead of protecting the children so much maybe they should let parents disipline again and let them live to enjoy their grandchildren.
Amen!!! I always had the feeling that public school was just taxpayer-supported babysitting; I'm pretty sure that my son learned just as much, if not more, from all the books he's read (VORACIOUS reader), all the Discovery and Nova and natGeo TV shows we enjoyed together, and really weird stuff like letting my 12 yr old stay up till 5am so we could go out in freezing weather to watch meteor showers. Parents these days seem a lot more concerned with making those almighty dollars than in interacting in any really valuable way with their own children -- they farm them off to strangers rather than having one parent be a stay-at-home parent, just so both parents can go out and make more of those almighty dollars.
And don't even get me started on these women with the crazy idea that they can be both mother AND father. Sure, some women are forced to that by death or divorce, but it's certainly not PREFERABLE. I didn't really like my stepfather much, but it's a fact that home life became a lot more "regular" after he was part of the family.
Over-protecting children is NOT a good thing; how will they learn, if they never get to do ANYTHING? Yes, sometimes they make mistakes, but that's just another way to learn, and it's one of the best ways to make sure the lesson sticks. Errors are to learning what microbes are to the immune system.
Andria
