Wheres the respect in kids today???

[Steve Kendrot]

Cut em some slack. Realize these boys are receiving very little blood flow to their brains. Other, more bloodthirsty body parts are running the show for the next five or six years. I have a half dozen of them working for me at the moment and I hear your pain though!

[Jeff Strubberg]

I've met very few bad kids, but a whole slew of bad parents.

I know disrespect is annoying, but remember, someone showed them how to behav ethat way.  Talking to them and pointing out problems is the only way most kids will ever change.

 

I came home from hunting tonight and had a message. It was one of the kids from the shop.He got my number from another person there. He apologized for the way he and his friends acted. He asked if we could shoot together sometime. I'm meeting him there tomorrow to do some shooting. I have nothing but respect for him. It took alot of courage for him to do what he did. This is going to be fun to help him anyway I can...Roy  

Good on ya!

[Mechslasher]

fellows, try being a high school biology teacher.  most could care less until the word sex is mentioned in any shape or form.  then they're like beavis and butthead.  there is a severe lack of what my grandmother called "home training" running rampant in the teenage population these days.  the sad thing is when i call a parent in for a meeting, then it's like a shock when i tell them their kids aren't acting like angles.

[cahaba]

My grandkids say mam and sir. i have seen alot lately who do not though.

[Swamp Pygmy]

Oh I didn't mean you shouldn't respect people. You gotta give respect to get respect and thats as old as time. I was just saying it's gotta go both ways.  

I'm in my mid twenties and I can see both sides. And I very clearly remember all the morons pumping gas or selling fishing bait that want to lecture you. About anything too, nothing in particular. I honestly think its a self esteem issue though. Many people that didn't have much happen for them get jealous in one form or another that someone half of their has so much ahead of them. It's got to be an insecure feeling for some people in that situation.  

Not long ago I was with a friend who is a politicians aid among other things, makes over a hundred grand a year, and has a law degree from a major college. And he smiled politely while some ignorant hick was lecturing him about politics. I assure you my friend knows lightyears more about political issues than he does, which is why my friend didn't converse with him, just wait until he was done. He had to just smile politely until the guy was done talking for a considerable amount of time. Me. I'd have told him to shut up and he's ignorant. But thats why I get told I'm disrespectful from time to time.

But I can defintely see how disrespectful so many suburbanite brats are. Everything handed to them in life and not only do they think its normal they think they deserve it. No worthwhile personality has ever come from such life entitlement. And it goes across the line, there are HORRIBLY disrespectful kids where I live in New Orleans. Disrespectful to the point they'll rob you at gunpoint if you know what I mean. But I was really just playing Devils Advocate. I just didn't want it to be a one sided argument against kids. I was just saying I meet an AWFUL lot of immature people who are well past the crescendo of life.

[charles m]

Kids?  What about adults?  Heck, all you have to do is visit some of the other web sites to see what today's kid's problems are.  Their problems are stemming from the adults that have no respect for others.  Just look at the examples some of these adults are setting by acting worse than kids.

[Benha]

I hold doors and sir/ma'am because my ancestors would come back to get me otherwise. So do my children. A few years back my father in law who is a minister held a door for a lady that was going into the hospital to visit someone. She went to the director got his info and sued him. She said by doing that he implied she was of the weaker sex. He was in deep....anyway she finally listened to reason and dropped the suit.

[Sam McMichael]

I used to shoot at a range where a lot of comments were made about my traditional gear.  Most of it was joking - very little true disrespect.  Funny thing is, they almost always wanted to try out my longbow. Some of them developed a genuine appreciation for the work necessary to become proficient with the "old stuff".  Some of these encounters may be opportunities to infect new people with trad fever.

[Jerry Wald]

Benha...sounds like another sewer person to me. That's rediculous. It's like the guy who tried to sue mcDonalds for making him FAT..yeah right or the woman who tried to sue Tim Hortons for the hot coffee she spilt on herself.....don't ppl want HOT coffee.

NUTS    
Jer Bear

[Benha]

Jerry he still has the incident on file at the hospital. Shame.

[lodestar]

Spankings have been missing from the household for quite some time.