Your Child Was Out Of Line

I live in a small suburb outside Cumberland, MD. I absolutely love the people here. However, it seems to me that the younger a parent is, the worst they react to another parent "correcting" their precious little angel. I am 35 and have 2 small children and my friends and I "correct" each others kids all the time. Because of this the kids in our neighborhood aren't perfect, but they are polite. For example, none of these children would ever walk in to one of their neighbors homes without knocking! Seems like a small thing, but I bet there aren't very many communities out there who can say that!

This article is a very good article. I applaud anyone in the US society that tries to remind people that discipline is a good thing! Unfortunately, parents have become the friends to their children instead of the sturdy, stern hand that guides them. I am 25 and not a parent, but I am a Kindergarten teacher in Japan. I just moved here earlier this year and have really been reminded of how some things used to be back home. I was raised in a loving, but firm family. Now that I am grown and on my own I respect and love my parents more today than ever. I look back and am so grateful for the choice they made to raise my sister and I the way they did. I hope that the pendulum will start to swing back and parents will begin to make the choice to be responsible for their children's actions. Its not an easy choice, but it is a necessary one for the future of our great country!

This article is a very good article. I applaud anyone in the US society that tries to remind people that discipline is a good thing! Unfortunately, parents have become the friends to their children instead of the sturdy, stern hand that guides them. I am 25 and not a parent, but I am a Kindergarten teacher in Japan. I just moved here earlier this year and have really been reminded of how some things used to be back home. I was raised in a loving, but firm family. Now that I am grown and on my own I respect and love my parents more today than ever. I look back and am so grateful for the choice they made to raise my sister and I the way they did. I hope that the pendulum will start to swing back and parents will begin to make the choice to be responsible for their children's actions. Its not an easy choice, but it is a necessary one for the future of our great country!

almost same thing happened to me and my son at a Boy Scout event; a boy made an insulting comment about me to my son standing next to me in a banquet line, instead of ignoring the comment, i asked the boy..."Didn't your parents teach you if you don't have something nice to say, don't say anything?" he turned to his mother standing in front of me and asked..."what does that mean?" it still takes a village...

I think it is time americans usa take back correcting there children and putting them in there places. Yes the laws have changed but to much change is now making monsters out of our children and doing them more harm when the face a work place and don't accept dirrections about how things get done and throw a hissy. I have seen where in some schools teachers have been slap, hit and even shot or hurt just for teaching. Those teachers left the inter city schoolds and took jobs in the business sector and were paid better. I think its time america brought the old fashion out dated rules back to the schools and also left the parents correct children. My children were corrected and I didn't spare the rod. One is now a police officer with his own family and a respect member of his town, both daughters have there own homes and families and are doing what all mothers do, while my single son is a farmer and caring for his livestock. We are not one big happy family but we all take responsiblity for what we do and we respect one another. I ended up being a single mother and worked to make ends meet and than took care of a husband who has been in and out of the va hospital and regular hospital and nursing homes so I do know about life and the way children should be raised.

My thought is that if you do not show your own child that some things should be stood up for, who's values are you teaching.