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Second Round 9/6/2008 4:24:56 PM
Second round to the obstacle too great for me..... or at least for the obstacle I have not figured out how to deal with.....
Second round to the obstacle too great for me..... or at least for the obstacle I have not figured out how to deal with.....
I wrote - was it last week? - about those horribly noisy and rude children that the parents had no interest in giving lessons on manners to whom were having a great impact on me. I know I'm not alone. Most are just silent about the matter. As it is, my brain operation from the past has made me highly vulnerable to noise, more than most, but that is not to let this subject matter go without address.
I now have a group of very noisy, yelling children where I live. They yelp out Tarzan yells at 9:00 p.m. just outside my window, and God help me if I am trying to read. I tried nicely to address the father last night, and got ambushed with yelling from him. He went on a litany of "They're just children" despite my address of the need for conscientiousness to other people in the area.
These children are absolutely wild. They run up and down the street, jump up and down on air conditioning units, and have no supervision at all. Where is the parent in all of this? - seemingly uncaring.
Unfortuneatly for me, I am close to a local college and there are many young parents around. I would think that these parents would care about bringing up their children to respect others, to care about their surroundings, and to consider others when they are in public. What I witness is completely opposite, and I am highly affected in my own personal life. I can hear them yelling even right now as I sit and write this.
"Move!" you say? - I just did that and spent a great deal on that. Furthermore, I was told one thing before moving, and am finding another. But this problem is a problem in mainstream American society. The children have gone wild, and the parents have allowed them to act like wild animals in the name of being children. It happens in the grocery store, in the drug store, in Target, in the mall, everywhere.
I was in the mall earlier today, and the teenagers running and jumping all over each other was outright scary. The mall became a field of play as they acted like a gym was in force. The regular person could only hope to not get caught in the cross fire of children gone haywire.
When are parents going to see the damage of their actions in allowing too loose a standard? When are parents going to begin to see the need for a standard of discipline? As I sit and listen to the yelling out my window and remember what happened last night, I reflect that I am witnessing the criminals of tomorrow. These poor fellows have no standard upon which to measure themselves except 'do as I please' and 'get out of my way'.
