The Controlling Force of Our Society
Have we gone to the extreme or have we simply forgotten children require nurturing, love, and discipline? Discipline for the development of a well rounded, educationally sound individual to go forth in society and become an asset to the community and family. What happened? Where did we go wrong? Was it caused by a bureaucracy that created a nightmare of fear in parents-fear so all encompassing-it has made the children the controlling force of our society. Parents who now allow their children to do as they please. A society that is now complacent in providing discipline to a generation of children who have little or no respect for themselves, peers, parents, teachers, and other associates. Parents live in fear of children seeking revenge by informing authorities they physically abused them. They fear being guilty by association; fear the child is more believable and not always truthful in providing the facts. Teachers, administrators, hospital personnel, and child welfare advocates assume the parent is at fault. The parent is tasked with the responsibility of proving they did no do harm to their children. Parents who fear a bruise from a child's everyday rough play may cost them their reputation and freedom.
Where crime is at an all time high and will continue to climb. Where civil disobedience is the norm that often escalates to more serious crime. Where a victim has fewer rights than the accused and prison is no longer a deterrent to crime. The question remains: Who is the controlling force of our society?
The ramblings of a madman, you decide!
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In responce to your blog and suggestion I like how you closed your blog with the question "Who is the controlling force of our society?" And in my opinion it is ourselves. I do not have children nor do I wan't them. However, I do agree that children need some form of discipline, but I do not agree with the underlying tone of your paper. In my eyes an acceptible form of dicipline for a child is grounding, time outs, writing sentences or definitions of what they did wrong, or the loss of certain privelages. I do not agree with spanking because I bleive that no one should ever lay a hand on a child, and parents who do so should be punished by the law. Also, I believe that parents shouldn't live in fear of the law, because people who abide by it should have nothing to fear. What I am talking about is how you stated that "parents live in fear of the athorities because of children seeking revenge". In general, children are innocent natured and the only form of revenge is what they duplicate from the examples that poor parenting mirrors. Children are not created vindictively or with malice. The parents are at fault becuase children tend to recipricate things that they see through their parents actions, television, or role models. In disagreeance with the fact that you believe that parents live in fear of loosing their reputation due to a bruise on their child, I belive that, "kids will be kids", and rough housing is a part of a childs development. But I believe that parents who do harm to their children are the ones who are living in fear becasue those who live in fear are the ones who are afraid, and those who have nothing to fear because they are doing nothing wrong or illegal, well don't. To close, it is up to everyone to controll the forces of society, by being positive role models to younger generations, because ultimatly childrem mimic what they see.
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