What's Wrong With The World Now-A-Days

My brother recently sent me an e-mail discussing that we grew up in a different era. Didn't we all though? Our days as kids were much like that of The Sandlot movie. We were kids in Hawaii and walked barefoot everywhere accept to school, we played from dusk till dawn without adult supervision, we sold frozen Kool-Aid in Dixie cups for 15 cents, cutting (walking) through someones yard was a no no, playing door bell ditch, and saying The Pledge Of Allegiance every morning with your hand over your heart was done ritually every morning facing a flag in the class room. We had crushes on teachers but never slept with them (although I don't know that Lori was telling the truth when she said she slept with the music teacher), we got caught smoking in the stair well, and some schools allowed smoking outside, we closed the curtains during sex education so the younger kids could not see the slides of the reproductive organs on the dreaded slide machine, we all sniffed our papers when we got them warm in our hands but never got high- they just smelled good. We did not worry about guns, knives unless it was an school activity group. We had Girl/Boy scouts, Boys/Girls clubs and the YMCA's. We had 6th grade camp, a much needed and rested vacation for one week away from home in the great outdoors in A frame cabins, fun field trip where you packed a brown bag lunch with your name scribbled on the bag and ate your smashed PBJ at lunch time. You would walk or ride your bike in any neighborhood without the fear of getting mugged, raped, or shot at. We ate dinner as a family, and had our parents help us with homework, we obeyed our parents with manners. We were latch key kids and could be trusted. And we had some common sense. Happy Days and Lavern and Shirley was a good show.

Toady's world is very sad. The kids are rude and even evil, no manners and at times hateful. They hold grudges that their parents taught them to do inadvertently. There are no good field trip because of budget cuts, there are no after school programs because the teachers do not get paid for them. And where are the YMCA's or the scouts and clubs that use to be so prominent? Oh Yeah, the scout masters are raping our children-I forgot. There is no Pledge Of Allegiance because of idiots in Congress, we fear for our children's lives in school because of crazy shooters, kidnappers, and bad kids. We cannot spank our children for fear that they may be taken from us, and now they say we cannot get our children too overweight or the states will take them away also. Computer/video games now consume our children, they listen to cop killing cursing music, foul language on regular network programing and they tote weapons to kill and maim.

My solution: Bring back the belt and Bring back God.