A local Mexican food restaurant the wife and I frequent had a complimentary soft serve ice cream machine. It was a nice treat after dinner. One day we went in and noticed it was gone. When I inquired about why it was removed, I was informed that too many teens were letting it run onto the floor and laughing or putting their mouths directly under the nozzle and running it into their mouth. So they had to get rid of it. I would love to find these kids and take a belt to their
the way their parents should have, but obviously didn't.
I agree, bad parenting combined with today's 'laws' that places the ones that wants to be good ones under the watch of Social Services or worse, probation or prison for 'child abuse'.
This is utter BS, even school principals can no longer use corporate discipline in most areas, and where applicable, must be granted permission from the parents first, who may be good or bad ones. This is an entirely different generation from when I grew up, even today's parents for the most part. Back in the day, it was respect our parents or authority (like it or not) or get or butts whacked, sometimes forced to cut our own switch from a tree for the job and it dang well better be one that we could feel. Or a paddling from the school principal on the spot, guilty or not.
It's unfortunate that establishments has to take away these extras like the ice cream machine you mention above, yet it's largely in part do to stupid laws that tells parents how to go about being such. These young punks are the way they are because parents fear their kids calling 911 after a just punishment. Or they don't care themselves and their kids are the same way. Sadly, my very own sister, 17 years younger than myself, we only lived under the same roof less than two years, had to place her own daughter in training school because she simply couldn't control her actions forcefully enough. To make matters worse, took two hearings within a year for that to happen, my sister spent the weekend in jail because the same wouldn't attend school regularly & no one knew it until she was charged.
So she then laid things out as it had to be, after getting out of jail & obtaining a family law attorney, handed her daughter to the State & told them to keep her until she was of mandatory age of release (18) or her attitude was adjusted, whichever happened first. Come a year's time, she was begging to come back home & promised to listen to her mom (their dad was already in prison, had been for a long time & still is). Ever since returning home, has been a model family member & a totally different person. Bottom line, the action worked out well for everyone and may very well had kept my niece out of prison as a young adult.
Unfortunately, not all parents has the backbone to do as my sister, she couldn't afford to lose her job over sitting in jail for contempt
due to candy ... parenting laws, what was done to get my niece in line had to be. Now she has respect for her mother & others, as it should be for a near 16 year old.
Too bad that it cost near $2,000, a year of my niece's freedom & a lot of initial grief & healing on both sides to make the change. Is it a wonder why these youngster's does the way they do? Many parents doesn't have either the backbone, cares less, or lacks the cash layout to dish out the tough love these kids need.
Parenting has been added to the 'money train' list of the local attorneys & the court system when dealing with a problem child. Our parents & especially grandparents would be laughing silly (or highly ......) at such nonsense in their days.
Cat
