Dear Dr. Don Kuehle,
I just read your column online and I would like to make a comment. I think it’s great that people can look back on their childhoods with fond memories. Some can’t.
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I do, however, think it’s very unfair to say that kids aren’t punished or disiplined. All parents discipline their children they just choose different methods. Some choose to discipline violently and some non-violently.
It is irrelevant to compare the type of world the kids today have to grow up in. It’s a different time. There weren’t adult advertisers trained in psychology bombarding children with advertise- ments even at school. There wasn’t easy access to all the evil in the world via, television, music and the internet. TV still had news media with integrity, not agendas. Children never asked themselves if their moms or dads were fighting a war in another country to benefit oil companies. Children weren’t being reminded daily that the environment is being destroyed. Kids weren’t being injected with 38 different vaccinations by the time they were five years old. Children were allowed to play outside without fear of being abducted. Children weren’t exposed to violence and sexuality via their music or daytime television. Children weren’t hauled off to daycare at 6 weeks old to spend ten of their waking hours five days a week with strangers.
I think it is incredibly a much harder world for every new generation of children. People only remember their own childhood and seem apathetic to the children for the way the adults have let the world become. These children deserve love and compassion, not a “hickory stick” mentality.
Thank you for allowing me to comment.
Sincerely, Sheryl Berklacy