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