I agree with an earlier post. Standards in society have massively dropped.Whenever I go somewhere with thousands of people I am amazed by the lack of self respect in appearance, general social skills, manners, ability to obey no smoking signs and other requests, the language used, inability to control kids and general lack of awareness how own behaviour affects others. No amount of government propping up people will solve that
Can't work it out. Even with bad parenting for some stuff. A lot of little things bother me to be honest, cos when you observe it you just know it is just the tip of an iceberg.
Take litter for instance. Schools drum into kids not to drop litter and my little un is 8 and she would never do it, nor would any of her class. You speak to them and they all know not to drop litter.
So at what point in time does it become okay to drop litter? Seems that kids reach an age of 11 or 12 and then just suddenly start dropping litter.
I know there is bad parenting, but when schools drum into kids about not dropping litter and it seems entrenched into the kids mindset, at what point does all that go out the window?
The amount of people I see just park in disabled spaces without a care in the world and parking at bus stops and in front of school gates.
Pretty much every week our school newsletter reminds people and urges them not to block drives and gateways and in front of school gates and every week they have to list registration plates of cars that have broken that rule.
People just throw cigarette butts in the street, swear quite openly in front of children and think its fine not to say please and thank you and show some manners.
As I say, these are little things, but if you don't have respect over these little things doesn't that then point to the fact that you probably aren't going to have respect for much else either?
Don't like to get too political, but I saw a sea change under Thatcher where a society of selfishness, greed and looking after number 1 mentality was bred.
There is too much every man for himself and so much less focus on society and community despite various council and government schemes to try and promote such.
So desperate to get the right schooling for my daughter and last year we moved house so we could be in the Coundon Court catchment area, so as to avoid the prospect of Barr's Hill and President Kennedy.
Bit of a socialist myself, but can fully understand why parents try and go down the private school route for their children.
Our children are the next generation and that is where our focus needs to lie.
We now have at least 1 or 2 lost generations unfortunately.
So glad I was brought up so well by my parents. Respect, consideration, politeness, care for others thoughts and feelings and to treat everyone as an individual and upon their own individual merits.
I don't care if someone is black, white, green, Muslim, Sikh or from the planet Mars. I try and treat each and every one as an individual.
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