I am going to start with a question for all of the readers. Why is it that in todays society we are seeing more violence, specially in teens and young people?
A lot of people blame a lot of different things or have different reasons or opinions about this but the truth is that parents have forgotten how to raise their children. Our society has changed, it is not like the one our parents or grandparents lived. Todays parents are afraid or not hard enough in disciplining their children and we also don't have the time. I have seen children behaving bad, yelling at or even hitting their parents and what do their parents do? They either do nothing or they send the child up to their room where he or she is unsupervised and can do anything they please (trust me I have done it). They don't even think about putting a hand on them because the kid will call the cops. Now I don't mean that a parent should abuse or hit the child until their arm gets tired but people have forgotten that a little physical punishment has to be applied now and then for a child to understand what life is really about, that it won't always be as they want it to be. A lot of us still remember our dad's belt or rope or stick don't we?

Parents should star teaching their children about obedience and good behavior in their early stages of life or should I say specially at their early stages of life.
A child will learn most of his discipline when they are babies. But now days I have heard people say "oh, I will just teach him/her later when he/her understand more" and thats plain wrong. Children should be taught to behave as soon as they are born. I have a brother that has two children a 2 year old and a four year old, and I always tell him that he needs to discipline his kids now before it's too late. My two nephews are so used to hitting each other or their parents, I have even seen them hit my mom ( their grandmother) that it is hard for my brother to control them and they are only a few years old! But every time I tried to talk to him about it he would laugh or joke about it, he would say that they were too young for them to now about good and bad behavior. Thats what happening in todays world and parents should start thinking like their grandparents. This might sound old fashioned but it's the truth. One should start straightening a tree since it's only a little plant because when that tree grows old, strong and bended there will be no way to make it straight. The same principle applies to our children.

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