I loved this! http://lauragraceweldon.com/2014/10/08/response-to-kids-misbehavior-good-old-days-vs-now/
And from the comment section:
I don’t know Laura….I see a lot of problems today related to parents letting their kids run roughshod over them. I have no comment on how “schools” discipline kids because I don’t think schools should exist in the first place – at least not government schools. At least back in the old days they would send the brats to bed “without dinner”. I have asked many parents (mostly moms) if they could or would consider inflicting the pangs of hunger on their child….and not one yet has answered affirmatively. I received a lot of , “God NO! I would never…”
Kids riding roughshod over parents isn’t the same thing at all. Adults have made kids the focus of their ambition, weirdly over-empowering children while at the same time depriving them of a childhood. So many kids today have very little time for imaginative and active play of their own devising. They have minimal freedom to form multi-age friendships and to exist in a realm apart from adults. They rarely contribute in a purposeful way to the running of the household or family business, let alone other responsibilities meaningful to them. Their lives are over-structured by adults and yet at the same time there are too few firm rules. This is a very uncomfortable time to be a child, as I see it.
