Disipline problems?

RabunDog, you certainly took me back into yesteryear. Excellent post on the way things were. Today, as you said, some of the young folks think that they have to be "cool" or "kool" as I see the word used these days.

Steve, appears to me that discipline is pretty much a thing of the past. Sorry to say that, but as kentdaddy said . . . with all the gadgets and the competition between news agencies to be "first" does not leave a lot of room for improvement.

Both RabunDog and kentdaddy hit the nail on the head. We (I am 70) sneaked around and did many things, just did not have someone looking over our shoulder most of the time.

As far as football . . . . Coach Butts was a "Bad A--". In those days the tackling dummies were folks like us. Erk, fair and tough. Think we might have a clone of Erk on the staff now. We will see . . . . soon.

Go Dawgs, many pundits say we lose this weekend. Wrap 'em up Dawgs . . . Wrap the game up. Glory to Ole Georgia.

averagedawg wrote:

I grew up in the time of "yes sir, no sir, yes maam, no maam".........There were no whats.
That was true at home, at school, at church, everywhere.
Discipline was swift and to the point.
You treated adults with respect.

BUMP!!

gillette wrote:

I agree Rabundawg. Also, the parents 25+ years ago were more disciplined toward their kids. There was no "time out". A sore A55 and a long restriction was enough deterrent back then. It only got worst if the misbehavior continued.

And that same discipline was applied in our schools. Now schools can hardly discipline at all.

Yes as gillette and others have said - discipline was swift and tough - don't see much of that today - my experience in the schools was when I had the opportunity to tutor students after school - those students had asked for help and were usually cooperative and wanted to learn - when I had the chance to sit in on classrooms to judge teachers for teacher of the month - observed students not paying attention or just laying their heads on the desk - I was shocked - I felt sorry for the teachers because they could not do anything to them unless they became very disruptive - they could send them to the principal - taking discipline out of the schools was the downturn in our school systems no mater what race

Combination of all the above........the one biggest factor I see is the "ME factor" that not only these kids have but our society as a whole.

RabunDog,

Excellent post, nostalic and absolutely spot-on. There was a time when you not only feared parental retrabution, you feared it from any adult. You respected your elders cuz they could kick your butt and when your parents discovered this, you got it kicked again!...Now, we have a generation of PC, tree-huggin', time-out requiring, fragile mental image youth, with expectations and a sense of entitlement that makes me laugh...

There is something to be said about a symptom that repeats with distinct regularity...A symptom that is perhaps a sign of issues far greater than the driving and a suspended/revoked license, or coppin' a feel cuz you tossed back wayyyyyy to many. I am afraid that if we don't begin to collectively speak that which we all realize, we may never find the proper treatment for our lack of discipline....


GO DAWGS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thought just crossed my mind . . .

Wonder what the average age of the folks that have posted so far . . .

70 here