Posted on 08/19/2005 5:46:36 AM PDT by SLB
There aren't many (any) in Congress.
Dr Mohler has a daily comment that is right on target 99.99% of the time.
'Nuff said.
Today's "adults" live and build their lives so they can act like kids in their spare time, and also prevent their own kids from growing up as much as possible.
It's a horrible way to structure society, and it explains nearly all of our ills.
Good article.
Perhaps a related observation is that there are very few men about these days. They're all "guys" or "dudes".
Guys and dudes don't have the responsibility, and authority, that men have.
Too much logic and common sense in this article...
I know.
interesting read ping
That's already a case study called the "Democratic Party".
Bump for a good read.
its all toy r us's fault with that silly song..
"i don't wanna grow up, i'm a toys r us kid..."
anyone got a pic of the giraffe to post?
How will they ever succeed everytime they are medicated, sent to therapy, or even arrested for showing a slight bit of initiative and independence. Create a nanny state/dictatorship in your home or school life, and they will continue to be passive and ineffective as adults - or worse - go through that pathetic spat of rebellion at age 25 when they should have been done with it 10 years ago.
We had no adults during the 8 years of Clinton.
Just one symptom of the entire sad situation.
Jack Benny (who was pretending to be vain about his age) was perpetually 39. Imagine how silly that sounds today. It'd be 29 at least. There's your culture-shift indicator right there. I had a professor who thought for sure it was 29 that Benny said.
We live in a world of boy-men. I won't speak about women til my thoughts have gelled.
You were expecting maybe, Humphery Bogart??????
When we were kids, we were driving tractors in the fields at 7 (started at 5, but by 7 we could reach all the pedals), taking our own boat fishing, hunting deer by 10 (shot my first whitetail at 11), driving trucks around the farm by 12, working heavy construction and junior members of the Volunteer Fire Department by 14, Full members of the Fire Dept at 16 and running ambulance calls if we had the training. At 16 we had our driver's licenses, (14 in some areas), at 18 we could be officers in the Fire Department, albeit few higher than Lieutenant, were planting and cultivating crops, working as watermen or doing a "grown man's" job for a "grown man's" wage, some got married, and most had their High School Diploma. We were not counting on another 4 years of college and grad school beyond before we had to earn a living.
We embraced responsibility and thrived on the status it gave us in our community.
Nowadays you are prohibited by law from starting to do most of that sort of work until you are 18 or older.
If you want mature, responsible, adults, you have to let the children accept responsibility. If you prevent that and then hand them "self esteem" without accomplishment as a substitute, little good will come of it.
If you show them selfishness as a paradigm, do not be surprised if they turn out to be selfish and fail to mature. Why grow up when you can sponge off your elders?
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