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I miss men wearing hats and tipping them to the ladies.
I miss women wearing dresses everywhere.

I miss that too! I remember my daddy coming home from work in his suit and tie and hat. My mom always wore dresses, even just little skirt and blouse outfits to work around the house.
You wouldn’t think of going out of the house to go shopping without dressing nicely. It wasn’t to “be proud” or try to show people up, it was just taking the tiny bit of effort to “do the right thing”. It all went along with the respect that we were taught to show to each other. I’m thinking of going back to dressing that way just to show that I don’t approve of this un-culture that we’ve become.

I love old 30s, 40s and 50s movies, even though a little before my time, because they remind me of the decency and security that I had growing up . You see in the movies the intact families, clean and safe cities, clean language, etc. Kids that have grown up in this generation can’t even imagine the world was like that - they think it is made up, but those of us who grew up then KNOW it WAS like that! (Men may have ‘cussed’ a little among themselves, but NEVER would in front of children and ladies, and gentlemanly Christian men didn’t use bad language much anywhere except in very stressful circumstance! I never once heard my father use a bad word - even when he was mad!)

I’m trying to raise my kids in the old ways, but it is really, really hard.

Here in Red England; it isn’t unusual to hear kids using words I wouldn’t think of using...we’re talking five and six year old kids...of course; when you hear their parents; that explains everything.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SX86viXrV_4

“unculture” LOL!