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Remember when we were young? Why is it so different now? I just don't understand why things have changed so much over the years. Why is it that we can't discipline our children in public without worry of being arrested on the spot? Why is it, if my five year old child is throwing a fit in the middle of the candy isle and doing the "dying cockroach" in front of everyone in the store, I am not at liberty to spank him on the butt like my mother would have done to me when I was a child? When did it become "ok" for my fifteen year old to come home with an (800) number to dial if I ever "laid a hand on him" in discipline because his health teacher told him she felt that was "abuse" in her eyes? What is going on here? I did not grow up in an abusive home, by any means, but my parents did not play around when it came to respect either. There were lines drawn between parents and children's roles and you just knew not to cross them. Today we send so many mixed signals with what we teach our kids and the roles we are playing are not black and white they are very gray. Nothing is clear to anyone. And will someone explain this "time out" thing to me again please? I mean really! Come on.... Teens are given condoms from the schools, 800 numbers if they feel they are being "abused" (which is disciplined), hospitals don't have to tell parents what is really going on with the child's health, teacher's can't touch a student in any way (my teacher used to hug me when I was a child),don't let me even get started with the whole prayer thing, weapons in schools are a huge problems, teens are on anti-depressants more than ever, my space is the only way to reach half the teens to ask how their day went or to see which parent's house they'll be spending the weekend with. We need to say enough is enough. At some point we need to bring back the "good o'le days". We are going to have to make time for talk time. We will have to put down the cell phones, close the laptops, stop the IMs and just talk to each other. Geeeesh..... won't that be weird? and I'm going to need a crash course taught by AOL before I can understand my kids to break down the "lingo" since I lost my Captain Crunch decoder ring... know what I mean? Lmao....hahaha My BFF TTFN....

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