PeacefulSwannie wrote:
Not surprising that people are becoming morbid when all we read in the news is bad news..... stories that are uplifting are as rare as hens teeth. 



Exactly. We have to get things back to what worked if anything is to be straightened out at all. When you tell a person they're bad often enough, they will oblige. That's just good old fashioned mountain wisdom. They can take all of their psychology and shove it as far as I'm concerned. By raising our children like this, are we not destroying them? I believe that they can see this as well, and they are telling us by being so rebellious like they are. We simply cannot be shoving them out there so poorly prepared when the world is as screwed up as it is today. More common wisdom should tell us that this is the precise time for us to be pushing for more focus and compassion when teaching them, not less. Out of all the families we know, one .............. maybe two have properly prepared their kids, and it shows. But that's it. Everybody else has kids who have been to jail not just once, but many times. It's not as if they're bad kids either. They simply neither know how to conform, or not get caught. With some of the draconian laws we have these days, either of those would be fine in nearly all of the cases.