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In reply to the discussion: Adults that spoil kids aggravate me [View all]yella_dawg
(2,860 posts)I've been thinking, and I am toying with the idea that adults have a society, kids have a society, and the two are diverging. A hundred years ago, most people were basically agrarian, and they kept their kids along most of the day, while working, interacting with the community, and so forth. Much of the day, parent and child were together and on a public stage. Tolerable behavior was taught to both child and young parents, by the entire community, and early on in life. Also, many, or most, children were raised by grandparents or extended family while the young parents worked.
Now, parents split at sunrise and the kids are warehoused in nightmare "schools". Come evening, everyone retreats into isolation where a hypnotic programming device anesthetizes the mind for more efficient indoctrination. If you think I exaggerate, read a little about how a television, the physical hardware device, causes measurable changes in brain function in viewers.
Three generations of Americans have been raised not by parents, but by a wholly unregulated programming device. Sadly, the programming device is often left running with no message, simply programming kids with random garbage.
When I compare how I was raised on a farm in the fifties with how the kid down the street is raised (by extremely conscientious parents) I wonder if civilization will survive.