I Speak Life!

I am going on 42 years old in a couple of months, so when I was raised, a bit of a different approach was used.  In Junior High, they still had the paddle in the office for kids who made bad choices.  Parents and Grandparents alike not only required children to live up to a certain moral standard, but enforced that standard with impunity.  When you did wrong, there were consequences. Then, things changed for some reason.  We seem to live in a world today where parents and school officials may not lay hands on children like they did 'back in the day', and where children must be talked to using kinder and gentler language.  There are schools that have lost control of the children they teach because there doesn't seem to be repercussions for the students acting out and not following standards.  Kids don't care if they are suspended, and they stand up to their parents more than in previous generations because the parents don't reall...