Real Talk
Tell Me. What's Wrong With
Chill-ren (children) Nowadays?
Hi my name is Irene. I’m the creator of Inspire Higher Apparel. Personalized scripture t-shirts and apparel designed to show your children how much you love them and how much our Heavenly Father loves them too.
Have you ever been on a bus or out in public and the young people are cursing, laughing, talking loud and disrespecting their elders? Have you seen young men with their pants hanging below their behind? I’ve even seen grown men doing the same thing. I’m like, “Are you kidding me!!!”
I’ve never watched this show before but one night I was flipping channels and I ran upon “Man With A Plan”. It stars one of the guys (Matt LeBlanc) who was on that TV show “Friends”. Anyway, as soon as I turned it on, him and his TV wife were complaining about how they lacked control over their children. He and his brother commented how when they were growing up the parents had the control (Amen to that). But now the kids have all the control. WOW. They were dead on. That’s exactly how it seems today. You see it in books; on TV and in the movies constantly. Kids being flippant, aggressive and condescending to their parents, teachers and any adult.
The TV wife begins to quote her parenting book (“from a renowned expert” of course) that says, “The most effective form of discipline is often just listening.” Yeah right. Then, later on, they start justifying their own behavior to their son. Then they had the nerve to negotiate with the kids regarding their allowance for keeping THEIR rooms clean. Give me a break.
Maybe they should have given their kids a ‘time out’. You gotta hear Sinbad talk about ‘time out’ in his comedy routine, “Afros and Bellbottoms” (19:45 – 21:30 min.). And in “Where U Been” (39:44 – 42:09 min) he speaks on how his Dad dealt with his “A.D.D.”. It’s hilarious and it reminds me of how many of us were raised.
WELL I’M NOT A PARENT SO I DON’T KNOW WHAT PARENTS GO THROUGH. I’ve helped others with their children and with my nieces and nephews. So I can’t imagine what parents have to go through.
But what I do know is that Jesus is the answer to EVERY question! I know that the principles in His word are eternal and can be applied to anything.
God says, “IF MY PEOPLE, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; THEN will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and WILL HEAL (RESTORE) THEIR LAND.” 2Ch. 7:14
In other words, we Christians are the problem! The devil is on his job but we Christians are called to be the light and the salt of this earth, “But what good is salt if it has lost its flavor?” Matt. 5:13 I’m trying to live my life with some FLAVOR. What about you? Do you carry yourself with some FLAVOR about you? That’s what time it is. We got to step up and, not be counted, but be TASTED OR FELT in our circle of influence.
Also, I do know that my parents didn’t spare the rod. Consequently, I never got overly flippant with my parents nor did I dress any ol’ kinda way. My mom and dad didn’t play that. Especially my dad. You didn’t want Daddy to woop (i.e. spank) you! Mama was bad enough. Daddy didn’t play. He used a belt. When my mother wooped me she would make me go in the backyard and get a switch. IF MY SWITCH (a small tree branch for those of you who don’t know) WAS TOO SMALL SHE’D GO OUTSIDE AND GET A BIGGER SWITCH. Lord have mercy! So the times when I thought I was grown and my parents weren’t around the sting of those switches weighed heavy on my mind (or on my behind!).
In my current occupation I find myself talking to people every week about how we were raised and how parents aren’t disciplining their children like when we were growing up. So I finally decided to try and collect stories of how other people were raised. Who knows. Maybe it can be a book that blesses the next generation or maybe it will encourage someone who’s reading this blog.
So I’m curious about how you were disciplined. Would you share with us:
(1) A story of you being disciplined as a child. Maybe, one specific time that comes to mind. The funnier the better. Laughter is like good medicine. We all need it!
(2) The positive things you learned from it and
(3) How you applied it to your children or, if you don’t have children, how you think it should be applied today.
I SAY ‘POSITIVE’ THINGS BECAUSE I KNOW SOME OF YOU HAVE HAD BAD EXPERIENCES AND YOU HAVEN’T FOUND ANY GOOD IN IT, LET ALONE HUMOR. PLEASE, THIS TIME AROUND, ONLY SHARE THE POSITIVE OUTCOMES.
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