Yes. Today's kids are not being raised They grow up like weeds, without guidelines on what is right and what is not. I came from a family where we had strict rules; not that I followed them when I became older, making a conscious decision when I diverted, fully knowing the reason. Today's problems with the younger generation are rooted in their parents. "Raising" kids is a great responsibility and few parents are willing to make the effort to discipline them let alone showing them how to navigate through life.

I have a similar example to yours when the two young daughters of my friends living nearby started using my driveway as their playground, making a lot of noise. I went out and told them to please, stop it. Their mother came at me with fury, how did I dare to instruct "her kids". It occurred to me at the time that when a case like this took place during my childhood, my Mother would have explained to me why it was improper to make noise at our neighbor's place. She would never have attacked the friend for warning us. Luckily, the husband who was also a friend had more sense and he quieted the woman down. But the kids saw by this time that they can get their mother stand by them regardless of their improper behavior.

Back in the eighties when our kids were in grade school. We would go to conferences and the teachers would talk about how parents ALWAYS
defended students bad behavior saying things like
He or she wouldn't do that or something else must have caused it , when the teachers had to call a students home for discipline reasons.
Then I experienced the same thing one Sunday afternoon. We have a large open space in our yard. The neighborhood kids would play baseball and football or kickball there. I looked out and two brothers had another boy on the ground and they were hitting and kicking him. I stormed out and interceded. Screaming for them to stop ,they did and I told them to go home. 5 mins later the two boys dad called me. He was yelling at me saying that it was none of my business and the that I was a so and so. I was shocked and taken back , so much so that I hardly could respond before he hung up. I was ready to go over to his house and read him the riot act but was fortunately halted by my wise bride. She said it was not worth it and that nothing good would come of it. She was right of course but it still gets my Irish up to think about it. When I was younger if a neighbor or teacher ever called my parents about me it was a grounding after I was sent to apologize in person.
I raised my kids the same way.
To the point, my kids were very rarely a discipline problem. Firm consequences resulted in well behaved children. My kids never had meltdowns or tantrums.

Mr Chad. I congratulate you on your success. It takes an individual with integrity, determination and honesty to make the steps you made. However, if I may point out how else it may have turned out which is more typical in today's upside-down society. There could have been students complaining to their parents who in turn would have run to the school administration complaining that you were "unfair" to the students. in 9 out of 10 cases the decision would have been contrary what you were trying to accomplish. Good to know that there are still cases where it is not true.

Tucker Carlson is correct. There is one thing that is now missing from our current culture is that there is no more male hero's. But, also fathers who would push their sons to into manly types of ventures. That's what I see.

The leftist's are all about eugenics from the enviromentnazis to the Planned parenthooders to the gender identification gay marriage crowd to big pharma the entertainment industry to name a handful.

Everybody may have their own take on what a strong man is. That's fine. But, I don't think one could argue that without strong men you don't have families. That, I think, is what this is all about. It's an attack on families by removing a prime component.

Thx, again. :-)

PC has been rearing its ugly head for awhile now. I noticed it during the Obama years with the constant claim of racism. If you like vanilla ice cream is seems that can be twisted into an indication of raciam.... Now its renewed claims of sexual harrassment, and claims of god knows what if you espouse any sort of conservative view, particularly in colleges.

The first time I heard anyone publicly address
The dangers and the consequences of Political correctness was Dr Ben Carson.

I.have noticed the same attitudes in Las Vegas. I keep feeling I need to tell black people that it WASNT ME who brought their ancestors over here. And i certainly didn’t enslave YOU today

Its all about PC in our culture now. Thats one of the great thnigs about Trump. He doesnt care about PC and is inspiring us to not care either.

Found politics too inauthentic. I actually passed out flyers for the JFK election. Became Conservative along the way, but found politics was about getting reelected, not doing the right thing.I encountered a po\olitiacl office head whose claim to fame was a
masters in Education" - grat. When I reviewed a letter she was about to send to CEOS, it was full of grammatical errors. She argued with me, but with a call to the head of the local college English dept., she threw the letter at me, told me to send it out, and left for the day to pout. That is politics. That coupled with the James Bond annabe who hit on me daily, and I finally had my fill. Actually, the most rational job was in a corp. headquarters for an Intl. Tool and Die company, where I did some taxes, collections, A/R,cash receipts and G/L account reconciliations. There was a sense of product, common sense and reality-based dept. heads. My thinking boss, the Comptroller, did not believe in dept supervisorss, and cut the staff in half, with everyone responsible to only him. It worked well. Can you see government doing that, they would add staff. I am happily retired now, except for our small out of home business, where I am the IT person, and some accounting, with my husband doing most of that, but none of the IT.

Yes, and, I suggest it is hollywood movies that has spread a peculiar gun culture among the deranged which is absent in movies from Japan, England, France, Sweden, India, Israel, Iran, etc.

The battle is full on I call it the "uncivil war".
Recently the white hats have called it the Storm.
Either way it is on the liberal pukes " useful idiots will be self imploding when the Thousands of sealed indictments are served. The treasonous seditious enemies who have led this country are about to be held accountable.

Watch the future. Right now we live in a degraded world where saying, a man is a man, can be punished as hate speech on some campuses.
The thought police are here now! Will the people fight back?

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++++++++ That is a life well lived so far.
Next stop congress? We are going to need someone like you after the swamp is drained.
Thanks for the bio.

"It's not so much what happens to you , it's what you do about it that matters."

Bravo !!!! to that, too.

Thx :-)

I also like Heinlein. My husband is a CPA, but prefers to read history over taxes. He actually enjoyed the O'Reilly series on George Washington and the fight against England.I have recently been reading more Churchill. I also have read about the American Indians and the Southwest, as I grew up out there, then traveled back several time to show my husband where I lived, he loves it. t As for work, I started in computers, with a business school background in them, in the 60s, working at OSU Dairy Research, then the CPA firm where I met my husband, then to a Machine Tool Co., where I was for 10 years. All those places were just starting in computers, and it was perfect timing, I even worked as a consultant for the CPA firm to convert the county real estate records and tax billing to computer. I While at the CPA firm, I took classes and completed an accounting program, so I could better expand there. Later I quit it all and went back and got an Associates in Communications. Then a BA in both English and Philosophy, with minors in Political Science and Biology. After that I worked in DeWine's Congressional Office, then was a reporter at a newspaper for several years.Now, I am back working as part of our family accounting business. My passion now is architecture, esp. Frank Lloyd Wright and builder Joseph Eichler. I have shelves of books on philosophy, architecture and history. I read a lot on communism as well, esp. Mao - know your enemy. I find it interesting that JFK read Jahan's book on importance of Sea power, but now the Chinese red it, but our leaders have never read it. Oh, on a whim, I once took a vet assistant course as well, it helped when we had horses, but I never worked at it. Our daughter has read endlessly, has two Masters Degrees, just loves to learn.,

I shall never forget my experience with a bus driver at mid-term of my senior year. He decided the younger boys were doing things to amuse me and he had me barred from riding the bus the remainder of the year. I had done nothing.

I have seen three movies at the theatre in 10 years- Atlas Shrugged. I don't even consider going and supporting my enemies any more. Don't waste your money. The sooner leftist biased hollywood goes bankrupt the better.

Hi Dobrien. I just left a reply to term2 above and I suppose it would fit here as well. Additionally, the leftward PC propaganda machine has been at work for some time and some of the feed is quite subtle. Once you see it for what it is, it no longer escapes your view. It may have been prior for me, but I believe I first caught on to it during the mid '90s movie "Robin Hood" staring Kevin Costner. Since I knew some of the history behind the legend I couldn't understand why Robin Hood needed a black African sage (in ca. 1180ad England!) to guide him. Not only that, but the "sage" had a telescope that wasn't invented until a Dutchman came up with one in 1608. I guess the Hollywood writers had to make sure the stupid white male did the right thing. Since then, black sages have been showing up all over the place to make sure stupid white people do the right thing. Whatever!

I was always race neutral. Since Obama I now notice race more. I also am tired of being called racist to the point I really want to avoid any constant with them

Absolutely right great comment sir!