I don’t know how old you are - I’m 64 - but we both know it is a different world than what we grew up in. Like you, I did not start fights but was taught not to be intimidated by anyone and to stand your ground. From watching videos on YouTube these days, I have observed that most kids today do not know how to fight. Mostly it is round-houses and flailing of arms. Back in the day, yoiu squared off, jabs, uppercuts, and such. As I grew older, I was taught you do what you had to do to win. The majority of those today who talk the violence is bad crap, never got in a fistfight in their lives. You know your son and I am sure by now you have the full story. I suppose the only advice I can give is to prepare him for the worse that can happen. Teach him to box and scrabble, teach him to stand his ground, to defend himself and others. I hope the best for you and yours.
I’m 50 but not so apart from you. Thank you. I agree with your comments. I watched Clint Eastwood films as a kid and I punched this kid like Clint would in a movie like in “FireFox” or “Any Which Way You Can”. That’s what I was thinking when I punched him.
Boy today are generally not taught how to be a man or how to make use of their God-given abilities the right way.
Good advice.
“Mostly it is round-houses and flailing of arms. Back in the day, yoiu squared off, jabs, uppercuts, and such.”
Yup, they fight like girls. Round house leaves your nose wide open.
I’m 65. Dittos on everything you said. My dad taught me and my four other brothers the same lesson. I took up martial arts. I got in fights. Lost some, won some, never stared one.
It is a different world today. Guns all over in schools, gang fights, kids killing each other.
Sad. Life has changed and is changing at light speed. I hope I’m wrong but I don’t think we’re ever going to get back to the world we once knew.
I hope and pray my wife and I are gone when the end finally comes.