Lack of Discipline

     Today I had a doctor's appointment. When you go into a doctor's office it is usually quiet and peaceful, people talking in hushed tones, am I right? Well, not on this visit!!!! As my wife and I are filling out paperwork for new patients, she begins to ask me questions but I can't here her. From across the room comes a scream followed by a child of 7 or 8 years old running through the room. The child's father sits and watches as this child runs wild and begins screaming. I ask my wife to repeat her question, as the child begins scream again. This time I ask her, a little louder, to repeat herself. The child begins running wild and screaming non-stop. By this time I am coming unglued at the edges. I look at my wife and say, rather loudly, "I still did not hear you because the brat won't shut up." The father looks at me, he heard me...I thought ok now he is going to shut this kid up. The man gets up, finally, and goes to get his child and the child throws a  fit. Screaming, thrashing around on the floor, the whole nine yards.
     If I had even thought of acting that way when I was that age, I probably wouldn't be here today. Had it been my mom that was with me, she would have jerked me up and took me to the car and beat my ass. Had it been my dad, well, we would have never made it to the car....Where has the discipline gone? Are parents too afraid of the DEFACS office to whip a child? Or maybe the parents are too busy worrying with their own lives and what THEY want to discipline their child. Then again, maybe it is because both parents are so wrapped up in their jobs that the children are just ignored and placed in front of a TV or video game. Whatever their reasoning is, it is a bull shit reason not to raise a child correctly.
     Don't get me wrong, you can do everything right in the raising of children and they can still be brats, I know, I raised a few myself. But for any parent to allow their children to run wild in public, screaming at the top of their lungs, and throw a fit in the floor, well, someone needs to bring it to the parent's attention. This I did today. I believe that children should be on their best behavior in public, my girls all knew better than to act up in public. This so-called "father" looked at me as though I had slapped the shit out of his child (he doesn't know how close I came to doing it).
     If you go into a restaurant and try to enjoy a meal, you can hang it up. In the place somewhere, there will be a brat of some age, screaming or crying because they don't like what is on their plate, or they want what so and so has to eat. God forbid you try to eat at a buffet. Here you will see children under the age of 8 allowed, by their parents, to go up to the food bar and stick their nasty little hands in the food (who knows how many boogers are on their fingers), or they are up there putting crap in the mashed potatoes or who knows what they are doing....Their parents damn sure don't know because the parents are too busy texting or on facebook or socializing with Joe Blow from the school to even notice that their "LITTLE DARLING" is being a royal pain in someone else's ass.
     Our modern society has become the "ME" world. What I mean is that no one has any concern about how their child is their responsibility to raise to become a productive member of society. As I said earlier, put them in front of the TV, there they can watch cartoons like Johnny Test or Sponge Bob, which teach children the true way to become a smart ass, as well as dumbing down the children. The Cartoon Network, for example, is adult cartoons after 10:00 pm, yet the children of today go to bed with this channel on and it remains on all night in their bedrooms. I never had my own TV in my bedroom until I was grown and on my own. Or maybe the children are bought an Xbox 360 video gaming station. Now, this has become a pure mind rotting babysitter. The parents buy the child whatever game the kid wants so that the kid will shut up and leave the parents alone so the parents can watch Trash Lovers Channel or American Idol. Now, keep in mind, these games are rated so that a parent can see that their 10 year old does not need to play certain games. Some of these games award points for killing police, robbing little old ladies walking down the street, and "Bitch Slappin" their 'hoes. So, while mom and dad are watching Celebrity Rehab or some other mind-stimulating show, Little Johnny is learning all about how to tell his mom to go f*ck herself, or how to kill as many people in their school as possible before the police show up.
     These are just my thoughts and maybe I am just weird to think that these are unacceptable behaviors. maybe we need to look back a couple generations and see that a good old-fashioned ass whipping does some good. I am not talking about a child beating, and I do know what a beating is like, but a simple belt to the ass when the child gets out of hand. I remember it only took my mom to say she was going to tell my dad what I had been acting like, and man I was an angel. I did not want an ass whipping from him, as it WAS a beating. When he did have to take care of the problem it was usually a real screw up on my part, and I was in need of being beaten down. So, maybe, just maybe, we need to go back to whooping some asses when it needs to be done.