Posted on 09/05/2018 5:09:43 AM PDT by frnewsjunkie
This is a first for me. Kaepernick and the kids who have everything ... how did we go from when I was a young kid, to today's kids who have everything and seem to be hard pressed to find anything worth while. A spoiled generation... 2 generations.
Bear with me while I tell you what I had growing up, and look at today's kids.
My mother died when I was 4 and my father was in the war and I was raised by my grandmother. She lost her husband early in the flu epidemic, and she lost her daughter, my mother. She was a foundation... she took me to church every time the doors were open.. she lived a life that was an example to me.
We had very little.. I didn't know how much we didn't have until later, but I was glad to have my grandmother. I didn't have a bathroom until I was married. I didn't have a car nor transportation until I was married. I didn't have a sink and running water in the house.. we had a pump outside. We didn't have a modern kitchen... we had a cook stove. We heated the house with a coal stove and then later we had an oil heater. In the winter when it was cold.. freezing... we lived in one room that we heated.. slept on the couch and 2 chairs put togther.
We didn't have a phone until I was in high school. We did't have electricity until I was around 10. I remember the day we turned on the lights... before it had been lamp light. I didn't worry about what I didn't know about.
Our Christmas was a doll and that was it.. later there might be a necklace... but our toys were made up with our own imagination and a need to keep busy. A pole laid over 2 tree branches, a swing hung high from a tree, mud pies, a garden to work in.. hand hoe and hand weeding, a yard to mow with a push reel mower.
When we had electricity put in our house, the bill was around $3 each month. We'd get a card from the electic company and go out and read the meter, put the numbers down on the card and send it to the company. They'd then bill us.
I know there are others who lived like this and remember how it was.
Today I have grandkids who have everything. I see kids with a cell phone.. Those phones are expensive! I can hardly afford one myself, and these kids think they are a necessity. Who pays their bill each month? Do parents give them everything and think it's doing them a favor?
The generations since mine, have gotten more and more... and I don't think they are appreciative.. they don't know how little they can live on and still be sound and have a foundation that is very much needed. I see kids, young adults, who have the opinion they know it all.. and what they know, many times, is just all mixed up and topsy turvy.. wrong. There is no accountability. Parents will tend to go with "not my child.. he wouldn't do that".. or get angry at the first accusation... "how dare you". We were held accountable and there was no coming home and finding sympathy if we got in trouble.. the question would be "why were you there?" ... accountabliity for anything .. even if you were innocent... prove it.
Spoiled kids/spoiled adults... are unbecomming.. they don't know how to show respect... they are rude and think it's the norm. They want more and more.. they think they have a right to whatever they see and desire. We had to work for our allowance .. we had to work for anything and everything...NOTHING was free.. Work was the avenue to success.. it filled up idle hours.
Respect is just about gone today. Truth is gone from today's conversations. We are a bunch of ungrateful half grown adults, who have been given too much and forgot to say "thank you".
It’s a great post, and I know how you feel!
This opinion is not new. You can find these thoughts in very old literature.
Perhaps it’s worse now because more “marginal” (stupid) people survive because we have it so good these days.
the government and the divorce industry has been instrumental in getting the fatherly role out of family life. The media has also contributed as you won’t see one commercial where dad, no matter what ethnicity isn’t labeled a dummy and MOM is the family “patriarch.”
We are a bunch of ungrateful half grown adults
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It seems we live in an age where children act like adults and adults act like children.
Yesterday’s Kavanaugh hearing was a case in point. The nominee’s children were well behaved while the Democrat senators acted like children throwing tantrums.
Spoiled children who are given everything seem to have trouble adjusting to life’s realities. Their sense of entitlement and demands for instant gratification makes for disappointment and frustration later on when their expectations are not continuously met.
A well written post.
I was born a few years later. We had electricity and indoor plumbing.
My four older sisters remembered when we had neither.
Society has allowed so much to make it harder to raise children today. One has to be DIFFERENT and the kids have to knowt they are not to “follow” but to lead.. be the difference in the group.
Divorce, living together without marriage, having kids without fathers, thinking welfare is a way of life... living for freebies and work is shunned... hard work is avoided... Just the mindset of today’s society is so screwed up, it’s unrecognizable to what I knew in the past. We knew folks. The local bank knew us all. We had a dime store, a clothing store, a shoe store, a drugstore, a grocery store, several churches, the schools were run by the local folks.. school board.. we had Bible in schools, there was no tolerance for rude and bad behavior... the bus drivers could discipine the kids on the way home.
It was a way of life we knew and now, we know what we had!
The first family who had indoor plumbing in our little burg, ran the run off pipes into the nearby creek. It was clear and we could wade in it... it had minnows, etc you could see from just looking in the water.
With that run off, the creek was not inhabitable. They didn’t have regulations as to run off waste, back then. But you could tell what happened if you did.
I don’t remember another family getting a bathroom there for a long time. There was a toilet outside.
I have 2 bathrooms now in my home... I have a framed picture of an outhouse in both... as a reminder from whence I came. The Sears catalog was in most of the outhouses... not ours.. we had TPaper.. Grandma said she was not going to have a catalog in hers.
Yesterday’s Kavanaugh hearing was a case in point. ***
It’s gotten so much worse in the past obama years. He gave a wink and nod to anyone who wanted to stir up trouble.. and they have. They are not embarrassed, they are rude to the point of crossing the line, they don’t care who they hit they only care about their selfish and left progressive desires.
I have no patience in any of them. It isn’t free speech any more.. it’s harrassment and endangerment.. it’s destroying property and hurting people.. they should be arrested on the spot.
They are yelling in the hearings... empty the seats... take them all out. Giving in, avoiding... is not the answer.. get them out! for once, give them the consequences they deserve.
Giving in just invites an escalation of the disruption. Its disgraceful to watch this nonsense going on in the U.S. Senate.
We need a little more “thank you” Jesus.
And to be thankful for what we have as much and what we haven’t.
The victims of these generation believe they never make mistakes, it’s always someone else’s fault when a mistake is made, and they are entitled to special rights and privileges. There are no boundaries or rules which apply to them.
We have allowed this to happen by “spoiling” our children. Now it’s time to pay up ...
Maybe we need another World War in which everyone has to contribute or be on the front lines.
Young people have no concept of sacrifice in America. None. Their idea of sacrifice is going without their gaming machine for a night.
The scariest part is 20-40 years old will be considered “kids”
Spent plenty of time in facilities with mine and the wife’s mothers. The hired help then was nothing to write home about. That was several years ago. It scares heck out of me to think about the future help.
Young people have no concept of sacrifice in America. None. Their idea of sacrifice is going without their gaming machine for a night.**
It would make a difference, but today’s youth would not do as they did in WWII. Everyone volunteered... hollywood volunteered... we felt we had been attacked and we were ONE for our country. Life changed.. rations were set in... women went to work to replace the men who were in the war.
Today’s youth are not taught to give.. to be loyal.. to make life a better place... etc. (Some are being raised right.. I know that)... it’s the noisy and ‘in your face” ones that we see.
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