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Originally Posted by QuantumIguana
“The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers.” -- Plato
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It does sound like what we have today doesn't it. Part of that is parents fault and part is the fault of society I think. If you remove a good moral background from a society and let everyone do whatever they please to do you can't expect anything else. When I was a kid you called adults sir or ma'am or Mr, Mrs, or Miss. You didn't address them by 1st name or other ways. And when you did something wrong you were corrected via corporal punishment (i.e. spanking) as well as loss of privileges for a time. Now kids get sent to their room where they have a computer, dvd player, cell phone etc. and we can't give them a well earned swat on the bottom without risking getting into trouble.