Right on Marilyn!!!!!!!!!! Carol K On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 11:02 AM, Neysa <[email protected]> wrote: > 100% right, Marilyn. > Neysa > ----- Original Message ----- > From: marilyn E B > To: Memory Lane ; [email protected] > Sent: Saturday, March 23, 2013 10:20 AM > Subject: [ML] Children Today > > > Someone mentioned substitute teaching and how children have changed. > While > I could ramble on and on about this subject, I will try to only have a > short soap box rant. > > When the behavior of 4 year olds can drive a teacher with 20 years > experience to say "I AM DONE", it is a sad, sad world. I highly > anticipate > next Friday will be Missie's last day as a teacher. I can not totally > blame > the children as the attitude of parents and her administration have > contributed their fair share to her decision. In our day if a teacher had > sent home a note about our behavior we would have been ready to run and > hide. Not these kids because parents just let it go. Her director and > assistant director loaded Missie's class with all the behavior problems > in > the 4 year old group, as one teacher was new and the other can not handle > stress. Missie has always been the go-to person for problem children but > not with all of them with her all day long. A large percentage of today's > children have never dealt with any type of actions result in reaction > reality. > > Most of us and our peers grew up knowing there were do's and don't's and > we > knew if we stepped over the line what would happen. We grew up knowing > when > we were doing good and when we were not. We were encouraged to strive not > to be mediocre and that was almost from the day we were born. The list of > the differences from then and now could fill this page. We grew up to be > respectful, honest, caring, hardworking individuals. I am not sure if > these > traits are even important to today's youngsters. > > Every child is different in many ways and as a parent or teacher it is > best > to use different types of discipline. I have used them all, both as a > teacher and as a parent, despite what Dr. Spock convinced several > generations of a few decades ago. I am very sincere when I say Dr. Spock > made a great contribution to the problems we are facing today. > > I could go on and on but I will stop. > > Marilyn > > -- > "If you don't get outside every day, even for a minute, you have not > appreciated what God has done. It makes you grateful for our > surroundings, > and it starts your day differently." > > Johnny Cash > > > > > > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~mbousman1/memory.htm > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > > > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~mbousman1/memory.htm > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >