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Todays youth versus yesteryears.
Remember watching, Leave it to Beaver, The Brady Bunch, Gilligan's Island, Bugs Bunny, The Superheros, Eight is Enough, The Dukes of Hazard? Today kids are watching Sponge Bob, ICarly, Jimmy Neutron, CSI (Miami, Denver, Chicago, LA, MInnesota, Kansas City, and who knows what other names they call it), Heroes. Do you think that they act out according to the shows? If they were to watch only the shows from the older generation, would they act the same or be different. These old shows, I think, taught me to be kind and treat others with respect. I'm sure shows like ICarly does this also, however I feel it's not enough. Sure parents have the most influence, but our younger parents today didn't see those old shows. Just wondering if they did a study on kids for one year to see if this hypothesis would prove true or not. One group of kids could only watch the old shows and the other group could only watch todays. Would each group act different? What are your thoughts?
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Permalink Reply by Jake Fireman on
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Good post Brian!
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Permalink Reply by Brian Evans on
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Thanks!
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Permalink Reply by Ben Waller on
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A few years back when I was an apartment dweller, one of my neighbors was killed in a fire that resulted from "friends shooting bottle rockets at friends." One of the bottle rockets went astray, landed on a 2nd-floor deck, smouldered for a while then ignited some combustibles, caused a barbecue grill BLEVE, and burned out 16 units of the building next to mine. One of the occupants was trapped on the 3rd floor and died in the fire.
I haven't been a bottle rocket fan since then.
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Permalink Reply by Chad Furr on
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I grew up on roadrunner and bugs bunny but never once thought of strapping an acme rocket to my back to chase down a chicken( we have no roadrunners here in my part of KS) at high speed. LOL I sa it is all in how you raise your kids. Teach them right from wrong and give them just enough rope to hang themself 1 time and then lay down the law. LOL
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Permalink Reply by Paul Acosta on
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I thought coyote did that? Because he was trying to catch the roadrunner.
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Paul Im pretty sure your right on that one. Of course when one talks about the number of things coyote did to catch the roadrunner, it does kinda boggle the mind...and still never really caught him!
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I hear ya Jake. The only thing he didn't try was, spike strips. This might've done the trick.
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Permalink Reply by Padre Pete on
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Opps!! Yo Brian, Now you've done it. By your own admission you are new to The Fire Service and, by your responses here, you've shown you must be very new to FFN. To seriously go up against "Chief Reason", unarmed as you appear to be, is proof something is missing. In fact, by your own example, one could make an excellent arguement that time wasted on violent video game style pacifiers/babysitters can result in the child being too comfortable with killing, disrespectful of others and lacking in both motivation and accountability.
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John, You and I have agreed on a few things before but not this time. It isnt about being sued. Its about children who learn that parents and teachers are bullies and that grown-ups think causing them pain is a way to help them. The fact that somebody finds stricking a child defensible is only proof of their own inability to cope with the frustration of the moment. That failure is what the kids come to understand. Hitting, smacking, swatting, etc. in no way reflects any kind of good parenting. I dare to suggest that kids growing up appreciating adults who take the time to make sure the child knows what they know are best off. God Bless.
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I have motivation, thats why I am trying to go somewhere in my life. I have people I respect, but I just don't hand it out, especially over the internet. I am not comfortable with killing, but I am comfortable with death. Until someone equates years in the fire service to this understanding of video games, their capabilities, and their affects on the youth of America, your point that I am only a cadet it moot.
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Russell...
Parents of today know how to discipline, they just choose not to discipline. They do "hand them over" to hgrandpa and garndma, but only because mom and dad are more concearned with being "juniors" friend.
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