Today's generation is a mess. I don't agree with everything the poem says. Mainly the part about kids getting beaten, and nothing being said about it. If a kid comes to school with a scratch, there's practically a full-fledged investigation mounted on the parents/guardians and family/friends who live with the child. People are afraid to lay a hand on their kids, these days. This is part of the problem, in my honest opinion. I am not advocating child abuse, but I am advocating "physical" discipline. My parents beat me when I did something wrong, and that is how I learned right from wrong. You can't "talk" to your kids to discipline them. Part of the human learning process, when it comes to right and wrong, is the idea of the "shock collar". You made a mess and didn't clean it up, smack, so you know whenever you make a mess without cleaning it up, you're going to get smacked. You throw a temper tantrum in the middle of the store, smack, so you know whenever you throw a tantrum in a store, you're going to get smacked. Obviously, this stops working at some point, but it teaches kids how to make decent decisions and how not to be a spoiled Ducking brat.
Kids do not know right from wrong. No matter how old they are. I don't even fully know right from wrong. I'd say until you're around 25 (sometimes later than that), you will not completely understand right from wrong. This is an element that can only be taught by those raising you at a young age, and eventually you start learning it the hard way.
Kids are smoking and doing drugs because they think it is cool. They don't feel an immediate harm from smoking or doing drugs, so they don't see a problem with it. The kids around them, who probably weren't raised right, start doing it and they pass it onto each other. Kids are cutting themselves because they are selfish and seeking attention. (Of course, that isn't every situation, but it is most of them). These kids want 24/7 attention from their parents, teachers, friends, family, etc. That's what sometimes leads them to kill themselves because they feel it is the only way to achieve that maximum attention. Even if it is only for a short period of time. Yet, these kids don't realize how wrong and how selfish it is to kill yourself. They don't realize that it will cause serious problems in their family. They don't realize that their parents have no choice but to blame themselves, and it could possibly push them to go kill themselves. Parents get divorced mainly because of terrible timing. In most cases, they got married way too early and they were not right for each other in the first place.
Lesson: Beat your kids. jk lol but people don't know how to raise their kids anymore especially with the way society makes them feel about physically disciplining their kids.
-rant over-