after school I was involved in sport with my friends til about 6 then I had to go home, eat, shower and do my homework. On the weekend I would have homework to do then maybe go play basketball or football at the local park with friends. GO to a movie on friday, go down the shore in the summer time. We found things to do that didn't cost a lot of money.
Kids are spoiled these days everyone has cell phones, 100 shoes, 90 jeans it's ridiculous because they don't do anything to deserve these things. If my grades slipped i would get things taken away til they went back up not rewarded in hopes that now I would do better.
Both of my parents worked to so seeing that instilled a good work ethic in me it didn't make me blame them for not being home and cry out and act up to get attention. We are in a weak society of parents and then there are the liberal ******** that complain if a parent does take action either through hitting or some sort of punishment.
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Originally Posted by 79CamaroDiva
to the older population, that says that it wasnt like that when they were kids, i'm curious as to what you did after school? was there a parent home when you got home? was there some form of horrible consequence if you got your ass in trouble?
today, kids are turned loose. in most cases there's two working parents and most kids are supposed to fend for themselves between 3-6pm or so, which is guaranteed to be when the most trouble occurs. i got myself into my share of trouble, but never anything like that, i always had (and in some cases still have) the fear of god instilled in me from my father, but a lot of kids today dont, their parents take an extremely passive way to bring the kids up.
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