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Originally Posted by Skydragon
True enough, I was just working on the premise that todays youngsters are so assertive and also coddled by comparison. Funnily enough some army friends were saying that conscription should be brought back and I said that it would be so hard nowadays to 'make' any youngster do something they didn't want to.  I can't imagine William or Harry marrying someone they didn't love and respect. |
Just TRY making someone do something they don't want to do! Some parents are better at the "guilting" than others. I think conscription should be brought back but I know that others wouldn't agree. I would also like to see manners and common courtesy brought back. I know I would have been back-handed by my grandmother if I had said half of what I hear in public today by young children. I'm only in my late 40s but even during the 60s and 70s I wouldn't have dreamed of running amok as so many were doing at the time. I think more responsibility around the house would be a start for some kids and enough of a shock that mommy isn't going to do everything for them the rest of their life.