When I was a kid, the Principal used a rubber strap across the palms of the hands. Any punishment I got at school, I was guaranteed to get double at home! I only needed to get the strap once, to learn not to cut up.
I drive a bunch of 13-14 year olds on my school bus. Believe me, at least 50% of them should have had their butts paddled by their parents 10 years ago!
I’m older parent at 58 with an 8-13-15-26-27 year olds ....three boys and two girls......boys are easier
Anyhow....most of my school peer parents run from late 20s to mid 40
They view parenting entirely different than I do and how I was raised as a white Christian on the edge of a small city of 250,000 in the 60s and 70s
My wife who is 51 was raised in Charleston and Murfreesboro and similar background
Just some of observances of white GenX and early millenial family and parenting:
1) single moms abound even in fancy enclaves
2) women dominate the men much more even in families with stay at home moms....in fact little difference on the surface
3) the moms prefer to talk and talk versus discipline
4) the moms cling to the children on everything....you can’t keep them out of the school and activities
5) schools are largely run by women or maybe a scared man here and there
6) there are still a few alpha men around where I live...the more rural the more
7) it gets better by high school because they won’t let the moms live at the school....this is when young mom quits living at the school and takes up yoga and Pilates
8) stay at home moms don’t really stay home...they have activities and either pay someone to keep house or they neglect it
9) this one is universal...soccer moms are pathetically addicted to social media...that device in their hands consumes their lives besides doting on their kids....my wife is different about the kids but addicted to her iPhone like heroin
10) the kids are pampered and indulged and rotten as hell with poor manners....when we meet a yessir kid we want to meet the parents because they are obviously the rare fellow traveler and I’m in the south albeit an invaded part
11) these moms even if they consider themselves conservative will be soft on culture especially fags and green crap and of course the poor black victimhood
This is just what I see around me in a fairly upscale suburban to semi rural community
Very few spank and they sure wouldn’t have it at home
The order of the past is but a memory and I blame feminism and the men who rolled over
It ain’t complicated to me
I can only imagine how it is in Newton Mass or Marin county