@aprilsimnel If I had even had a brainfart about trying to come off being a teenage know-it-all on my guardian? She’d’ve backhanded me into the 24th century, and no mistake. Well, the government has rendered that sort of control criminal these days. All you can do is try to take away the cell phone, game system, etc if you happen to be able to afford that for the child in the 1st place. Otherwise it will be the government that will later “smack them into the middle of the week after next”, they can drop the hammer where they have taken it away from parents.
@Meego _ but I can also see now years later the kind of character flaw my mother has and I hate saying it but she totally has a give up attitude which I think in part is why I got away with what I did._ In a subconscious way do you believe you are like the drill sergeant that berates the cadet to spark some “gumption” out of them? Or (no insult implied) were you just being a brat?
@Pattijo We weren’t allowed to act out , talk back , or think we knew it all , we knew a paddle would be waiting if we even tried. As I said to @aprilsimnel those glory days for parents have long been taken by the government, they want parents powerless to they can do the smack down and keep the prisons filled up. Have to have some rally cry to put out to the votes and the prison union to keep employed. If you have no iPod, game system, cell phone, computer, etc that can be taken from you what is the down side of sassing your parents, what are they going to do to you? They can’t even legally feed you only water and soda crackers.