What's happening to UK kids?

[Egg]

No swanny, your blinkered my good friend. It is down the the governments intrusion into normal every day life that is at fault.

1940 - children were polite, obeyed and yes, even feared their teachers wrath, the Police could give you what for and you would have to obey because if you told mum and dad, there was hell to pay.

The courts still hung murderers, drugs were unheard of, pride in your nation was almost 100% - no inner fifth column here thank you!

Mothers and fathers disciplined their fammilies, and a strich hierarchy was observed. Mum and Dad ruled, children did not.

Then the powers to be decided the status qouw as not to their benefit, and from 1960 slowly slowly introduced a new order of ill discipline. Then from that generation come our present leaders who take us down even further into the pit of decay.

The powers now tell mum and dad what they cannot do, the courts cannot help, the police cannot help, the society cannot help, because the powers that be seem hell bent of bringing us down to a 'lord of the flies' type of society.

Poor Piggy.

[Swanny]

Sorry Egg but I have witnessed it myself.
They threaten their kids with empty threats, eg "If you don't stop that we won't be going to ...... tomorrow." when both they and the kids know dam well they will be.
If you behave you can have a new toy. So the kid learns to play up until the offer comes along.
Try to get a kid to wash up after a meal, they just laugh.

[Humble Janitor]

Originally Posted by Egg

No swanny, your blinkered my good friend. It is down the the governments intrusion into normal every day life that is at fault.

1940 - children were polite, obeyed and yes, even feared their teachers wrath, the Police could give you what for and you would have to obey because if you told mum and dad, there was hell to pay.

The courts still hung murderers, drugs were unheard of, pride in your nation was almost 100% - no inner fifth column here thank you!

Mothers and fathers disciplined their fammilies, and a strich hierarchy was observed. Mum and Dad ruled, children did not.

Then the powers to be decided the status qouw as not to their benefit, and from 1960 slowly slowly introduced a new order of ill discipline. Then from that generation come our present leaders who take us down even further into the pit of decay.

The powers now tell mum and dad what they cannot do, the courts cannot help, the police cannot help, the society cannot help, because the powers that be seem hell bent of bringing us down to a 'lord of the flies' type of society.

Poor Piggy.

Drugs were unheard of? They still existed.

I've never agreed with capital punishment.

My parents are probably part of a dying breed of parent that instills strict discipline. They weren't perfect but they allowed my brother and I to watch questionable programs with their supervision, they never let me outside by myself at night and they knew how and when to say "no". Neither my brother nor I turned out perfectly but we are still better off than today's kid.

Also, the 50s were a repressive era for the US. Women's rights, civil rights and the strife of the 60s changed the world (and mostly for the better!).

I don't think that we can stereotype an entire generation or anything. Despite the bad parenting that we hear about in the media, we don't hear much about the good parenting.