On the 30 year decline in morality and behavior in the US. Americans have had guns in their homes for over 200 years. This mass shootings have only been a problem for 30 years. Why?
When I was a kid we were expected to behave. The penalty for misbehavior was shame. It was shameful having the a teacher or the principal call your parents because you misbehaved talked back in school. If you didnt do your homework. If you failed a test. Shameful!
It was how bad behavior and bad societal behavior was controlled. Willingly by you and I and everyone else because there would be hell to pay.
It was shameful getting in trouble. It was shameful being arrested by the police. (a police officer told me recently We cannot arrest minors anymore. All we can do is take them to their home and talk to their parents.) Remember how it was years ago? There was juvenile hall where the bad kids went and were locked up. Shameful! It may not have really existed it was the boogeyman. No one wanted to be sent there!
It was shameful getting pregnant at 15. Remember what would happen? A girl would get pregnant in high school and she would disappear to grandmas house for a few months and when she returned we wouldnt speak of this incident. It was shameful.
Its because things are now acceptable that were shameful. We need a return to people being responsible for their actions and a good healthy dose of shame for bad behavior. Like it was 50 years ago. You didnt want to misbehave in school the principal would call your parents!
When I was in the third grade there was a big times table chart on the wall in the classroom. All our names down the left side. We got a gold star on the chart by learning and reciting the times tables by heart. Right there in front of the class just before lunch. When you learned the 9s you stood up and said I want to do my 9s. We achieved publicly in front of our class.
I have a friend who teaches third grade. She has that chart in her class today and she said to me I still do that and I take the heat for it.
Her students are expected to learn those by heart and if they dont the entire class knows because they dont have a gold star.
Shame. And achievement and reward. Thats how you mold children. Its always been that way.
There were families all up and down the streets mom and dad and kids. Intact families. It was shameful getting divorced too. Remember? People stuck it out for as long as they could. Now everyone is self-absorbed and trying to find something anything to make them happy. Lots never actually achieve that. I know people who have been trying for years.