I’m convinced that one of the biggest mistakes our society ever made was stratifying in terms of age groups. Where, once upon a time, teenage sons might work with their dads out in the fields or in the shop, we now have kids warehoused in public schools, organizing their own society along the lines of “Lord of the Flies” and having very little to do with the parental or grandparental generations. Then we act all shocked and confused when their greatest influences are other teens and the stupid shows on MTV, and the resulting behavior is incomprehensibly heinous.
What you say makes tons of sense. Thanks.
Absolutely agree with you. The same goes for college students. Half the time you get this stupid liberal stuff from them because someone with a liberal ideation came around and is given a platform for speaking, the students think it sounded good, and the rest of the crowd goes along. They end up with like-minded people everywhere they go.
You have people of the same age in the military, but unlike college, where students are expected to be adults, so no adult guidance is provided, the military knows just how stupid young people cam be on their own and provides a strong adult hand to help get their minds right.
Bingo. Give the little man a big cigar! “By George, I think she’s got it!”
Home school families report the delight of having children who are more wholesome, chaste, and personable as teenagers than we ourselves were. Something about in one’s own family tends to help kids grow up normal.
I’m currently reading a book called, “Hold On To Your Kids: Why Parents Need to Matter More Than Peers.” The authors state basically the same thing you just did. I haven’t gotten to the solution part yet.
I will say that I have noticed an enormous change in my children’s behavior since we pulled them out of public school and started homeschooling. Of course they still fight with each other and when I say, “JUMP,” they don’t ask, “How high?” But I figure we’re starting at negative ground - HA.
If I had it all to do over again, I would not send them to school. You can really tell a difference between kids who have been home-schooled since the beginning that those that haven’t.
My oldest is about to turn 13, I’m going to have this framed and hanging on the fridge, “ATTENTION TEENAGERS: Tired of being hassled by your stupid parents? ACT IMMEDIATELY Move out - Get a job Pay your own bills START NOW WHILE YOU STILL KNOW EVERYTHING”
The age-segregated school paradigm is the only time in one's life where most human interaction occurs within the same age group. The old one-room schoolhouse more accurately reflected the real world. Another reason to homeschool these days.
And who’s fault is that? Blame the schools for lack of family time?