Have we as a society messed our kids up? (Please Reply x)

This blog and how people answer will depend on how old you are and you were brought up as a kid.

We live in a World where kids pretty much get a free run at life; they hang about the streets and do all sorts of stuff. I see kids as young as 10 out at midnight and think “Where are the parents”

So as a society have we got lazy with our kids? I am 40 years old; I remember we used to get the belt at School. Now, these days, if a teacher was to give a kid the belt the teacher would be in court. I ask if society has done the wrong thing here.  I read stories of parents getting into trouble for smacking their kids bottom for misbehaving, what has happened?

So the debate is simple, have we become overly relaxed with how we bring our kids up? Do we fly of the handle now if we hear a teacher has disciplined our kids? I remember as a kid neighbours would grab me by the ear and march me home to get a good slap round the head from my Dad, it was sociably acceptable back then

Fast forward to 2013 and we as parents can’t smack our own kids or give them a clip round the ear as is deemed wrong, then we wonder why we end up with a culture of children and teenagers in trouble and going to prison

Have we as a culture done the wrong thing with our kids?

Interesting to hear some answers

More Love, less hate x

Shaun

To Sleep or not to Sleep, that is not the question

Tonight as I sat with one eye opened trying to write my 2^nd guest blog of the day as I am very famous and in such demand, it dawned on me as I sat there.

I am an idiot. It was one of those profound moments when you “Just know” it comes to you like a headache in the shower with soap in your eyes. I fell asleep for an hour at my Kitchen table half way through replying to someone on Facebook. I woke up when I heard Dawn say “Are you awake”

Yeah the same kind of question you ask to a lion “Are you Hungry” as you sit next to it. I have a strange existence me. I am SHATTERED right now but this throbbing pulse from my left knee is like getting ice cream thrown down the back of your t-shirt, it just is annoying

Strange it is, tonight I feel I could just go to bed and crash “sleep” very easily but I can’t as the Ice Cream feeling is hitting me. There is no ice cream; I am using the ice cream as a metaphor for something that keeps me awake.

I could have used the “A cat taking a shit on my face” but I didn’t want to lower the tone you see, I mean I am a nice person, and the last thing I want to be speaking about is cats taking a shit on my face. It smacks of desperation for seeking attention, and this man-child here is not the kind of lad to say things to get attention, it is just not my style. I have never had a cat have a jobby on my face, although I have had a cat pee in my football boots once, I went to football and I was mortified, as people were looking at me as if I had just taken a shit myself in their Mothers handbags due to the cat pee smell. Anyone who knows me well knows I am not the kind of guy to even make funny jokes like this; they lack taste and a certain respect towards my friends Mothers and their hand bags. And I am a GOOD friend.

The worst think I have even done to a friend was spit in a condom and leave it in his jacket pocket a week before he got married, he got beaten slightly, but once I owned up I then got beaten slightly also, and told never to visit again, and I wish I could, I left my watch at their house 😦

See life is all about respect, like respect for Dolphins, as a species, I do not feel us humans show enough respect to the Dolphin. I knew a brilliant Dolphin once called Gary, he was BRILLIANT at Golf, he had a handicap I think it was 9, not bad for a Dolphin.

Anyway, we need to respect things more in this world. Even Spiders and bee’s, I am not saying we should respect wasps as they are just nasty bastards. Bees give us honey and Spiders help keep fly movement down in the home.

Life is all about respect people. We should think about this more often, my friend Keith below is respectful of all things and likes to find things out for himself. I respect him for it, he challenges life to the MAX you know, when things need done, KEITH IS THERE! No messing around, no fake stuff, no farting about, he just gets the job done