Are Our Kids Taking OVER????

It is amazing how in these days and times, we the adults seem to have lost our place in the household Hierarchy. More and more everyday our children for some unearthly reason think that it is their time to take the rains and become the leaders of our castles.

I am 43 years old, and I can remember it like it was yesterday, I would not even dreamed of doing half of the things the kids these days are doing and or saying.

From what I can recall, back when I was growing up, a kid knew and understood his or her place in the household hierarchy. We would not even dare to talk back, let alone out right disrespect our parents, in any way, shape, form or fashion, and if we did, we got a spanking.

What about school, we did not talk back to teachers, or dare or even think about taking knives, or guns to school. Of coarse there where some hard headed kids, but those kids where very few, and they where dealt with by the teachers, principal, and once you got home, your parents!!

Now days, it seems that kids do and or say what ever they want, and if we the parents, teachers, or legal guardians, try to stop them we get the third degree. Not from other adults, but from our children.

They yell, scream, and fight with us. Not to mention if you remember the Menendez Brothers  even go as far as kill, to get what they want.

They tell you and I, spanking is detrimental to your child, and can cause behavioral problems. This was via a post I read on CNN Opinion, dated and or updated on October 22, 2013. But can you really make this point, one has to wonder. Look at it this way, how many kids, that where born before the 90's like I was, killed his or her parents, made a bomb threat in a school, or went to school with the intention of killing other students. Go ahead and count up, and I want you to use your fingers and toes, and give me a number. I really cannot come up with any, how about you?

Now I am all for our youth, given the right to find their own identity, as well as their right to privacy. But isn't it our mission to guide, and teach them, and not the other way around.

The Bible reads in Proverbs 13:24 "Whoever spares the rod hates their children,
    but the one who loves their children is careful to discipline them."

Now I am not saying or do I condone, or am and advocate of child abuse by any means. But I am just asking the question, if we as parents, adults, teachers, legal guardians, take the time and where given the opportunity to practice the same discipline we experienced when we were growing up, would we receive the same respect that you or I give our parents, or elders today. 

I mean:

I'm Not Stupid, I'm Just Saying