PeacefulSwannie wrote:
You are not wrong Tim.... we knew our boundaries as children.... and how far we could push our parents on any issue..... 

We were taught never to sit close to the TV as it would damage our eyes.   But hey, most kids these days have TVs in their bedrooms! That was unheard of when I was young.  There was one TV in the lounge room.... but I never got to watch TV at night because I had to go to bed.... Children need 'order and consistency'.... regular meal times, to bed at a certain time,.... and parents lay ground rules. This makes a child feel secure....  There isn't much of that these days.... I have seen young children riding bikes around at 9pm...!



That book of Dr Spock's came out at too good of a time for such a monstrosity to hit the market. Right when people who suffered both the Great Depression, and WWII were starting a family. While the middle class never noticed it that much, they still wanted their kids to have it easier than they did. But the elite upper crust bought into it lock, stock, and barrel. Their kids showed up in the counter culture of the 1960's. Not the Hippies, but the spoiled rotten campus radicals, who were riding daddy's dollar to a Phd to avoid having to go to Nam. Sad part is, many of them became teachers, or something like that, because their cheat sheet grades were not good enough for industry. That's how I believe this entire mess got started, and the downward spiral is easily determined once you look at it that way, is it not?

I haven't a clue how long it will be before things swing back the other way.