QOTD submitted by Anonymous
What are your thoughts? Raising teenagers is always a challenge. Did parents in the 70’s and 80’s have an easier or more difficult time raising teens?
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Teenager is an interesting word. It hasn’t always been around. Why is that? Look it up and discover why the word ‘teenager’ is a modern word. Enlightening.
Even though my parents had their challenges raising kids, they tell me all the time they are so glad they’re not raising kids today.
If i remember correctly, there weren’t any “teenagers” until after WW2, there were only children and adults. Back then T-shirts weren’t standard attire, they were underwear. I like what one guy said, “I’m not raising children, I’m raising adults.”
Ding, ding, ding. Excellent, Vigilant.
Those who were raised as ‘teenagers’ are now immature adults who never figured out who they were. They never really grew up. They now spend their time making a living, seeking to be constantly entertained, wishing they were happy, and wishing they could get their lives together. Btw…this is exactly the impact of public schooling.
Prior to WW2, young adults had responsibilities. They had to help their families get by. They played an important part in the family dynamic.
If you have teenagers in your life, don’t refer to them as ‘teenagers’ where society expects them to behave like spoiled children. Instead, refer to them as ‘young adults’ and expect a higher standard from them as they are capable of maturity and actually want to behave and treated as adults. This will never be achieved in government schooling. Homeschool for best results.
“They never really grew up. They now spend their time making a living, seeking to be constantly entertained, wishing they were happy, and wishing they could get their lives together.”
This is the reason for the prevalence of the midlife crisis. A child in an adult’s body suddenly realizing that they are not immortal, and freaking out because playtime will end before they are ready for it to.
A couple years back I attended a graduation party. I happened to be at the table during “confession time.” Half a dozen or so folks who all owned beautiful homes, had great careers and lots of loving, supportive friends and family were all on anti-depressants! Men and women both. How can one have it all and still end up depressed (rhetorical)?
I believe it was much easier. If you got out of line they could smack the crap out of you and no one would say anything. Many of the kids were raised attending church’s unlike the kids today which do not attend church and have many mental problems.
I remember when kids got hauled off to the principal’s office and got a SPANKING. Talk about a deterrent. The class went silent real fast when someone got sent to the principal.
LOL, at least 2 morons among us. This is simply a *memory,* not an evaluation of what is right or wrong. Do you suspect me of faking a memory, or are you just plain ignorant?
I got hauled out of class and into the hallway outside of class. When that paddle hit the smack echoed down the hallway. When I returned to class I knew everyone there and beyond heard it. It was more embarrassing than painfull.
Absolutely. They didn’t have the corrupting influence of a rotting society.
Indeed.
The cultural sewer was much less fetid 50 years ago.
Born in ’60 and my childhood was idyllic. TV was Gilligan’s
Island and the like. Radio was top 40. Perverts were unseen. The 70’s
is when I started to see the rot coming into the mainstream.
You got that right. I was about 13 the first time I heard the word lesbian, and it was on TV. I went home and asked my mom what that was. She wouldn’t tell me, I had to look it up in the dictionary. Talk about a rude awakening.
OK,call me politically incorrect/racist/nazi/misogynist ect. but in keeping with this article about parenthood is it just me or do others see the irony that Juneteenth(black pride day)falls on well…….”Fathers Day”
I laughed the first time I realized it. What irony indeed.
Father’s Day is the most confusing day in the black community.
In all fairness all groups have dead beat dads,we can though blame to a large degree Johnson for setting up a system that rewarded single moms and finacially punished two parent families.
Agreed on LBJ and the not so Great Society ruining the core family, but negroes have taken out of wedlock births to 75% where it has hovered for many years.
78%
Q: What is the definition of mass confusion?
A: Father’s Day in Harlem
Hell yes. Far fewer distractions and landmines to avoid.
The boob tube, radio, and friends were about the only outside potential negative influences parents faced. And even radio and television were more or less “clean.” Today, with pedophile and criminal teachers, atrocious influences on the internet, etc. it must be near impossible to keep kids safe from all this shit.
We weren’t glued to the tube after school, we played games, like Rook, Uno, pitch, spades…
… baseball, football, ice hockey, bicycling, etc. … it was all about being outdoors as much as possible …
Don’t forget long distance riflery and home made explosive ordinance research and development.
AND video games– just more zombifying TeeVee
My grandparents had their children during the great depression, a time when average Americans had a legitimate worry about where the next meal was going to come from.
My parents raised their children during the height of the cold war and the threat of nuclear annihilation. I remember “duck and cover” drills where we practiced what to do when the USSR nuked us.
I started raising my kids in the post cold war era of peace and the prosperity that it brought (thank you Ronald Reagan!). Unfortunately, my kids started to come of age in the age of terrorism and draconian erosion of personal liberties.
My kids are starting to raise their children in a time of runaway inflation, food insecurity, and deliberate sabotage of the American way of life. They aren’t stupid. They know who is deliberately targeting their children with groomers.
Of the four generation of parents, I think I had it the easiest, my kids will probably have it the hardest.
Parents in the 50’s and early 60’s had an easier time of it because Dad worked and provided for the family while Mom worked taking care of the family and house. Nobody had to keep up with the Jones family and were happy with their relatively simply life in the burbs, surrounded by families who were in the same economic strata. The 60’s brought on turmoil and unrest and was the beginning of government dependence for too many families, with massive spending by Uncle Sugar driving debt and the need for women to enter the workforce.
The 70’s saw the rise of feminism with women casting off the male patriarchy, joining the workforce in large numbers and letting others raise their kids while they pursued their happiness outside the home. The 80’s saw the continued disintegration of the family and more and more kids raised by the “system”..
Today, we have the internet which brings all things, good and bad, into the hands of our youth. Fathers are non-existent in the lives of too many kids and we see it by the outbursts of violence, mostly by young men.
My folks had it relatively easy. We got by on what my Dad made, spent lots of time as a family enjoying each other’s company and did not worry about trying to get moar, as everyone we knew was the same as us. It has continued to get harder and harder to raise kids, but if two parents put their mind to it and do not allow the world to distract them, they can raise kids that are well grounded and will become productive members of society.
VERY well said.
My pop was a child of the depression, though a doctor,
he was tight as the bark on a tree. Our summer vacations
were spent on epic camping trips lasting 2 weeks sometimes.
Scaling 14ers, or going into the remotest wilderness.
Winters were spent skiing all the time when Vail lift tickets
were $2.50 for kids, $5 for adults. When Vail bumped them from
$5 to $10 my dad almost quit skiing. A single day ticket now is almost $300.
So much fun, and sparked my life-long joy of being an
outdoorsman. I still do it all even with sore knees.
Colorado is an amazing place to grow up (or used to be). Like you, I had many outdoor adventures there. Life changing adventures. Very fortunate. I miss it tremendously.
Our vacations were spent primitive camping at Lake Texoma with 4 or 5 other families. All the men were WWII vets and tried to outdo each other in creating a comfortable camp site. If you can imagine the fun of a couple of 8 y-0 boys taking an 8’ homemade sailboat out without adult supervision and nobody thought it was strange.
I remember my mom always saying to one of my younger sisters, “I hope when you get older you have a child just like you” and she did.
Well I raised one in the 90s and then a stepkid in the 10s. Daughter was easier in the 90s because she knew I would kick her ass. The other was a retard, but I kept him in line. He is basically illiterate compared to my daughter. Can’t write in cursive, prints like I did at 5 yrs old. Forget anything about math. He joined the army and hopefully the 101st AB will smarten him up
At first thought, yes, mainly due to no cell phones/social media back in the 70’s-80’s.
My own son, now 28, luckily avoided all the “woke” crap now pushed on kids, and although was public-school educated, came out with a strong sense of decency and a good work ethic. A lot of that was due to his Jr.ROTC activities while in high school.
They aren’t around to ask, and I was in my twenties and in the Marines and out of the country in the seventies. I’m going with a yes, because generally speaking, the only people trying to shoot teens then were in Vietnam.
AR: Well, one of the things he told me was that – he was at the house one night and we were talking and he started laughing, he said:
“Aaron, what do you think ‘women’s liberation’ was about?”
And I said – I had pretty conventional thinking about it at that point – I said I think it’s about women having the right to work, getting equal pay with men, just like they won the right to vote.
And he started to laugh and he said: “You’re an idiot.”
And I said: Why am I an idiot?
He said:
“Let me tell you what that was about. We, the Rockefellers, funded that. We funded Women’s Lib. And we’re the ones who got it all over the newspapers and televisions – The Rockefeller Foundation.”
And he says:
“You want to know why? There were two primary reasons.” And one reason was: we couldn’t tax half the population, before Women’s Lib.
And the second reason was: now we get the kids in school at an early age. We can indoctrinate the kids how to think. So that it breaks up the family. Your kids start looking at the state as the family. As the school, as the officials as their family, not as the parents teaching them.
And so, those are the two primary reasons for Women’s Lib, which I thought up to that point was a noble thing. When I saw their intentions behind it, where they were coming from when they created it, the thought of it, I saw the evil behind what I thought was a noble venture.
AJ: Aaron, did you know that Gloria Steinem, in one of her own books, now admits that the CIA funded Ms. magazine? [19]
AJ: Funded Ms. magazine – with the stated goal of taxing women and breaking up the family.
AR: No kidding, I never heard that. Well, Nick told me, I mean: I know it. But didn’t know the CIA was involved with it.
AJ: Well, she was proud of it: “Oh, the CIA wanted to help me help women.” And so they funded it. And of course it’s divide-and-conquer. What they do is they focus in on a real problem – women were getting shafted in many ways – but the elite wasn’t planning to help them, they were planning to really shaft them and take men away from them – look at what they did with black families. You only had about ten percent illegitimacy 50 years ago, in black communities, and now it’s over 90 percent. And look at welfare: “We’re going to give you some money, but you can’t have a man in the house.” And so that was further to degrade the family. Totally destroyed. And now illegitimacy’s over 50 percent in the general population.”
It was bad for me in the 70s because my wife became a Feminist like the rest of society and corrupted my kids; it can only be worse in the 2000s. The stupidity of liberalism is becoming very obvious to a lot of people and something is going to have to give; this can’t go on ruining the country at this rate.
When I was raising my kids during those years, I did not have to be concerned with them calling Child Protective Services for being grounded or, perhaps having a shiv put in me while I slept.
It’s got to be far more difficult now.
The schools they’re stuck in alone answers that question.
I would say it is even easier now for the sheep to raise kids, because everyone can distract themselves with their devices. Of course, the outcome will be even worse, but that seems to be what’s happening.
I think parents in the 70s and 80s are what sent this country as low as it has fallen. They were a disgrace.
It wasn’t us, it was the government and MSM which was in opposition to us tooth and nail.
I am aware of that. I have no personal grudges left in the matter, but from my observations and experience, whole generations were just thrown to the MSM and government wolves.
But society’s so much stronger now because diversity. It’s our strength!
Things are way more betterer.
Esp the Blacks behaviors, quality of life in the Blue areas, the public schools, congress, the dollar & the costs of living, the national defense, immigration, voting integrity, law & order, house prices, the us south western water situation, the us food and fuel supply, truth in the MSM, the health of the vaccinated, peoples wealth in Wall Street, etc.
I think most of the time, yes, at least where I grew up. There were exceptions. My sister is raising her last two teenagers in the same house we grew up. They are not prepared for adulthood. Her first three were.
When I was a young adult, the same six words struck as much fear in my heart as when I was a young kid.
“Wait until your father gets home.” Believe you me, the fathers in our neighborhood worked hard and the last thing they wanted to hear was that their kids were acting like hooligans.
Also, the neighborhood moms had permission to verbally (not physically) discipline the kids and send them home, if need be. They would tell us that they were calling our moms and telling them their kid would be home in a few minutes and please be sure to ask why they were sent home.
Today, a mom would have to think twice about telling her kids to wait until their father gets home. She’d have to match the kid with the right father and realize that the father was likely never coming home.
Yes…because we were able to be parents.