My younger brother was a teacher for years, now has been a school principal for over a decade, and when he witnesses misbehaving and disrespectful kids in public, he has a hard time stopping himself from immediately intervening and administering discipline on the spot!
When my dad was a teacher in the 70s and 80s running the detention room, he requested from the parents of the worst misbehaving kids (and got it approved in most instances) the option of administering physical punishment , can't do that today!
But also remember that some good parents raise bad kids, and study after study involving decades of research on identical twins have consistently shown a very strong genetic component to anti-social behavior.
The thing I find amazing is how, when most of us have such different upbringings, advantages, education, parents or lack of - most of us behave in such similar ways.
?the morals of the children are tenfold worse than formerly?
-- Lord Ashley, 1843
"the manners of children are deteriorating...the child of today is coarser, more vulgar, less refined than his parents were"
-- CG Heathcote, 1898
[today's children are best known for] "luxury, bad manners, contempt for authority, disrespect to elders, and a love for chatter in place of exercise."
-- Kenneth John Freeman, 1907
Much has been said recently pro and con about modern youth. My work keeps me in daily contact with them and try as I may I cannot view them with any amount of optimism. They are selfish and inconsiderate, thinking of no one?s comfort or pleasure but their own....Modern youth is disrespectful and brazenly bold..
-- H. M., Letter to the Chicago Tribune, May 20, 1928
When my dad was a teacher in the 70s and 80s running the detention room, he requested from the parents of the worst misbehaving kids (and got it approved in most instances) the option of administering physical punishment , can't do that today!
But also remember that some good parents raise bad kids, and study after study involving decades of research on identical twins have consistently shown a very strong genetic component to anti-social behavior.
The thing I find amazing is how, when most of us have such different upbringings, advantages, education, parents or lack of - most of us behave in such similar ways.
?the morals of the children are tenfold worse than formerly?
-- Lord Ashley, 1843
"the manners of children are deteriorating...the child of today is coarser, more vulgar, less refined than his parents were"
-- CG Heathcote, 1898
[today's children are best known for] "luxury, bad manners, contempt for authority, disrespect to elders, and a love for chatter in place of exercise."
-- Kenneth John Freeman, 1907
Much has been said recently pro and con about modern youth. My work keeps me in daily contact with them and try as I may I cannot view them with any amount of optimism. They are selfish and inconsiderate, thinking of no one?s comfort or pleasure but their own....Modern youth is disrespectful and brazenly bold..
-- H. M., Letter to the Chicago Tribune, May 20, 1928
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