I Want To Talk About Parenting

@Makncheese Who else do you blame for the way kids grow up? Friends? Maybe make sure they don't hang out with kids who don't have good parents.

My mom was abusive and controlling when I was growing up. The friend I thought was my support system as an adult I realize was nothing but a bully. Could be nice and sweet when things went HER way but a b*tch and bully when it didn't. She went to a school where being white she was a minority and they had to keep the races as even as possible so she used that to get away with stuff. Her parents would threaten to remove her from the school if she didn't get her way though that was the only close school and she had to go there or move to her dad's she would've never wanted to go to. She thought she was special because she was a bully and her parents were trash who did the same. I find I'm better away from her though we stay in touch once in a while mostly through facebook where we can see each others lives. I have a lot of old school friends on there that way but she was the worst 'friend' who I realized never gave a damn and could be just as cruel with her actions.

@Makncheese We also have to blame schools for poor manners also and especially social media. Our school systems are primarily liberal controlled and we see the enabling allowing poor manners to be condoned. The worst however is social media which is especially available via smart phones. Parents shold not allow kids to have smart phones for a lot of reasons. If they feel the kids need a phone for communication in the event of emergency then give them a flip phone without a camera and ability to go online.

@DancingQueensie I grew up in a ghetto area, had friends that ended up being robbers, drug users, killers and my own brother robbed banks. I worked my ass off from the time I was 11 years old raking leaves, mowing grass, shoveling snow and other odd jobs for money that I saved. I played baseball very well in grade school which got me a scholar ship that paid for a very good private high school that required everyone to have a 3.5 grade point to stay in it. The neighbor hood I grew up in required that you fight to the point of almost killing the person that came after you so I did grow up being able to be very mean. I also made friends with a guy in high school that had a collection of thumbs as trophies. I have seen all kinds of nasty stuff but I thought that was normal. Snowflakes to today do not have a clue what life is going to be like when this country gets totally taken over by liberals / socialists like in Venezuela today.

I have ended up being semi-retired at 45 and owning a consulting business making over $200k per year. So I guess growing up with violence does not make you bad and if anything makes you stronger and often smarter. Kids today are enabled candy asses with out much for brains that I have seen and are the products of school systems controlled by liberals.

@acpguy Oh and btw schools don't teach manners when ghetto shitty parents blame the schools for discipline and trying to teach their kids. You can't teach them shit when parents only put them in school to avoid jail and would rather their kids hustle for parents drug money, parents food bill and more than learn to be better than ghetto parents.

@DancingQueensie Not too bright I see. Kids will turn out how they turn out matter their surroundings but they can be brainwashed by either their school teachers or parents. I fortunately had both good parents and school teachers and decided despite my surroundings and other I would be better. I agree with the idea that parents on SNAP and have kids to make money off welfare use schools as babysitters but from what I saw they did not hustle parents for drug money they stole and robbed people. The democrat subsidized parents would not give their kids shit. Only rich parents gave their kids money for drugs. You must be one of those that were spoiled or a democrat as you do not have a clue.