Norco teens charged in beating death of 78 yr. old woman

Rugger said
It starts at home. Parents do not what to hear it, but our children have gotten worse because our parenting got worse. For some reason parents quit trying. Of course I am not saying all parents, but we have all been there...you see kids running through restaurants or the store, you hear them being disrespectful and not getting corrected. I see it everyday at the school where I work. It is not hard to pick out the kids who have involved parents. I am not going to say it is 100% because I have seen great kids with crappy home lives and terrible kids with great, supportive families, but I would say it is about 90% good kid/active parent.

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Wish that didn't have the smilie face, but +1. Kids need correcting early, much reinforcing that all actions have consequences, and that they are not the center of the universe. I HATE all the Dr. Spock BS about "not hurting the psyche" of kids. What a load of garbage. "Spare the rod, spoil the child" - and society in the mix. Conscience is something that has to be developed, it's not automatic like a lot of these pop psychologists seem to think. There is a "seen it all and nothing really matters" amoralistic atmosphere frighteneingly prevalent in society today and we must take serious steps to get rid of it..