How true.
Have you noticed that today’s parents of children are way overprotecting of their children?
A case in point. I was minding my business and sat down on a bench waiting for a bus. I walk with a kane because of my arthritis in my knees. I was trying to adjust my knees and feet and this young man who was carrying his son in a baby carrier said to me to put my foot down because it was touch his son. It not even touching the kid’s head. A young woman told me off in his defense, I simply walked away and said in their hearing range that they need to “mind their elders”. I was born in the 1950’s and the children back in the decades you mentioned were taught to “mind their elders”. I know I was. They were stunned silent.
In the late ‘50’s and early ‘60’s, we played “Army”...Our neighborhood kids against another neighborhood...We got tired of “BANG! You’re dead” “No, you missed!”
We got aluminum foil, put a handful of gravel in it, wrappe it all around a cherry bomb....
Then, when the other side howled, we yelled, “We got you that time!!!!!”
Everyone lived...............
What I can’t fail but notice in today’s society are the number of young people who are functionally illiterate. Furthermore, they have no manners whatsoever, have a cell phone glued to their ears like it is part of their body.
They talk on the phone, read their Kindle, books, newspapers while they’re driving cars with the volume pumped up playing the asinine and degrading ‘rap’ that they believe is music.
Back when you called your best friends folks Mr and Mrs
We were taught the same. One of my friends was born thee hours after I was...guess what he heard a lot?