There is so much I can write about but it's finding the time.  This morning I had a thought.  Hey..  since I hadn't had my coffee yet, that's a miracle. lol   Anyway, I realized I hadn't heard any gunshots in considerable time.  Odd?  Nah..  not for us, maybe for you.  These damn kids running all over the bloodly place with their Saturday night specials, most couldn't hit the side of a barn if they tried.  I'm just not understanding these kids running around killing each other over what???  Where do they get the idea this makes them big man on campus?  And personally, I'm seriously fed up with the gov't/agencies/whoever continually throwing money at youth to get them off the streets and the guns out of their hands and they are still running around with their pants hanging off their asses, shooting each other and innocent people.  Stop throwing money at them.  It's not working!!! 

Listen..  when I was a kid you didn't say shit if you had a mouthful.  Sorry to be so blunt but hey...  now-a-days..  cripes in the elevator I heard 8 yr olds tell people to F.O.  So what is happening here?  No discipline.  No consistency.  Computers and Gameboys or whatever they're called are babysitters these days and fry their little brains.  Ship them outside and make them play in the fresh air and use their imagination.  Ever think back to when we were all kids and only the rare kid was overweight?  Now the rare one is average weight.  Maybe that had something to do with the fact we played outside every day pretty much regardless of the weather.  We ran, we played, we exercised on the jungle jim.   We played baseball and red rover..  we were active.  Today's kids sit on their asses.  Day in and day out.

And why is it these kids today have to have everything and their parents break their backs to get it for them including all the designer clothing and running shoes that cost more than you would ever think to put out on a winter coat and boots combined?  Why do they have to have the best clothes, toys, etc.?  We did just fine and are still here today to talk about it with next to nothing.  These kids don't know hardship.  They learn nothing from giving them everything they want.  They grow up thinking the world owes them a living and then get all bitter and angry when it's not handed to them on a plate.

I have a message for parents today..  grow the f up.  Teach discipline.  Teach respect.  Don't give them everything they want.  Teach them manners and respect for their elders.  Sit them down at the table at the same time every day for family meals.  And stop cooking whatever they want!  Cripes, dinner used to be 5 pm and we ate what was put in front of us.  We were poor...  there was never such a dumbass thing as "I don't like that, I want...." and then my mom made it! lol oh yea, for sure.  lol  NEVER.  We ate our veggies, we ate our meals and if we didn't, then tough because our mom worked hard taking care of us without all the luxuries of today. Then we asked to be excused from the table.  Did it kill us?  Nah.. we are all still here.   Hell we walked almost a city block to pump our water in buckets!!!  Heated it on a 2 burner hotplate.  Used a wringer washer and hung our clothes to dry. Didn't matter if it was summer or winter, they went on the line.  Cry me a river that you have to take an elevator 30 seconds to the basement with automatic washers and dryers.  geez  and while you're at it, teach your damn kid to do the laundry!!

Pampered..  the bunch of ya.  You and your kids.  Get some backbone and get some respect.  Both for yourself and others.