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Originally Posted by brian1975
After reading some of the posts so far, I was wondering if it is hard to raising children now, or say 20-30 years ago?
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I think it is a lot harder to raise children now... There are a lot more distractions for children and teenagers than there were when I was but a young pup.
I also think a lot of instinctiveness about what a person should do with an errant child is gone... it's too easy to 'research' stuff on the internet and you can find 20 things that insist they are the right thing to. A parent should just know and trusttheir instincts.
Children, too, have gotten a lot sassier. I think I spent my entire 13th year on restriction for talking back to my mother. Do that to a kid today and they'd probably call Child Protective Services. I see it with my own nieces and nephews... Video games are babysitters... We used to be sent out to play... There seems to be some sort of wariness about sending kids out to play these days...