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Originally posted by curveball07:
I agree with you TPM.

I am absolutely amazed at the lack of respect so many high school kids have for authority. Not all these kids come from broken homes either.


I am absolutely amazed at the lack of respect so many YOUNG KIDS have for authority.


The lack of respect doesn't happen once they get to high school. It starts very young, and it's reinforced by TV...---"You're not the boss of me now!....Life is unfair!"
Last edited by play baseball
We drummed into our guys early the requirement to be respectful to adults, including using "mam" and "sir"; they automatically use the terms now without even thinking about it. I've had other parents tell me that using such terms is passe and isn't really necessary anymore.

I still think it's right, and for the youngsters, it's a good start.
Tarheel - I'm a huge disciplinarian. Just ask my kids. They get grounded quite often. Shoot, we've even "grounded" the littlest Beezer, a 2 1/2 yr old (No TV for a day).

Having said that, I think your punishment was a bit extreme. Obviously, I don't know the details and I'm sure they play into the whole scheme of things. But does somebody who repeatedly did "nothing big" warrant getting benched for the season? I'd think all involved learned something from this though.

As somebody else mentioned, I'm curious if the player was one of your better or lesser talents.
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For some reason I always end up being the lightening rod...

From a paper 44 #3 wrote on why the driving age SHOULD be raised to 18...


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Then there is the science. According to Frontline, scientists used to think that teens responded differently to the world because of hormones, or attitude, or because they simply needed discpline.

However recent studies scanning teens' brains in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) machines have discovered that the prefrontal cortex, which makes people ''act like an adult,'' is not fully developed in a teenager until AFTER the age of 18.

It turns out that the part of the brain that drives the actions of adolescents is a structure called the amygdala. The amygdala is not home to rational through but rather to primal feelings such as fear, rage, and wild impulse.

The conclusion is that teens are not thinking like adults because they aren’t capable of it. Adolescent brains simply aren't ''hard wired'' like adult brains. And to complicate things even more, the amygdala regulates many kinds of hormones, and pumps them through teenagers’ bodies making them moody, unpredictable, and irrational.

As a result teens don't think, ''Driving recklessly is very dangerous and stupid.'' Rather, they are hardwired to think, ''Oh, boy, a race! Wouldn't it be cool if I won?'' So now there is actual scientific evidence for adolescents doing all those things that keep parents up at night: sneaking out, purple hair, binge drinking, sampling drugs, and waiting until the last minute to do that term paper. Now put these same out-of-control adolescents behind the wheel of 3,500 pounds of steel, with music blaring and you have a recipe for disaster



Cool 44
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hokie


It shows respect---is that not necessary any more?

We have an interesting scenario on our travel team which I think to some can be unsettling-- one of our coaches usually has 4 or so players with us---they call him "Coach" and me "Tom" to differentiate--I take no offense at all as they are still respecting me---they call him "Coach" all year as he is there HS Head Coach so why change now----respect comes in many ways

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