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To: Jeff Chandler

Yes. I think that is the sort of thing people need to grasp.

For better or worse, after WWII, the Baby Boomer generation was often raised in accordance Dr. Benjamin Spock’s bestselling book. Mothers rushed out to buy it so that they could learn how to raise children.

Something like that (hopefully better than Spock) needs to come along to tell parents to avoid government schools, avoid participation trophies, avoid universities. Raise children to be respectful and to have actual real world skills. People need to “parent” differently.

And government schools should be shutdown.
And attending universities should be discouraged — if you want to be a doctor or engineer ... maybe. But why get a college degree if you’re just going to work for an insurance company?

Businesses need to offer On The Job training to willing people who can start at the bottom.

And I think we need to find some solution for affordable housing. Someone who is 18, and just joined a job training program should be able to move out of Mom’s basement and actually live in some sort of apartment situation with others. If zoning laws block that, change the laws. If other laws force rents to be $2500 a month, then change those damn laws.

Make changes so that the younger generation can succeed.

Our society has raised children horribly, then thrown them into the deep end of the pool. And we call them names as they drown.


13 posted on 01/12/2024 8:17:35 AM PST by ClearCase_guy
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To: ClearCase_guy

“For better or worse, after WWII, the Baby Boomer generation was often raised in accordance Dr. Benjamin Spock’s bestselling book. “

You weren’t raised in the South were you? I was raised up by the ‘go cut me a switch’ method.


32 posted on 01/12/2024 9:11:12 AM PST by dljordan
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