Say Anything Blog

We need to put fear back into our children. I mean the kind of fear that makes disobeying your parents the last thing your kids want to do. We do not have that dynamic working today. We are no longer parents. We are friends and enablers. Kids do not fear you because you fear what they can do to you. We are at the mercy of Social Services. I say let’s make a change in our hearts to remedy this today! When your kid talks back to you, don’t ground him. Smack the heck out of him. I get tired of seeing TV shows where

kids sass their parents. Then the kid walks away. Meanwhile the parents are standing at the bottom of stairs saying “You come back here right now.” The kid ignores the parent and keeps on trucking. When the kid comes home the parent apologizes. This is played out in millions of American homes everyday. When I was a kid that would never happen, except on “Leave It to Beaver.” I knew better. I would get a good old-fashioned whipping. The whippings never lasted long and we got over them. But they were a constand reminder of the penalty for disobeying or disrespecting your parents. Along with this came a healthy respect for our parents. And also the security of knowing that you would always be protected. We did not expect to be given things to keep up with the other kids. We created games when no toys were available. We wanted to excel in school. Stop being a friend. Stop being a provider of everything this kid wants even though you can’t afford it. Take control of your household and tell the government to get lost.