Reply #39: i think people ARE born using brute force rather than reason.

[nashville_brook]

kids become what they are trained to become. i think this is axiomatic; definitive of childhood. who hasn't nearly lost their mind looking after a 2-year old pitching a tantrum? or brothers and sisters who fight like animals? kids are wild by nature.

training kids away from immature/uncivilized behavior is a parent's job/responsibilty. it's also the extended family's. in a perfect world kids have involved parents and access to the wisdom of grandparents.

i hope that's exactly what we take away from this and ask ourselves if we have a society where parents are enabled or disabled from providing a functional unit? Or, are we stretched too thin working 2 or more jobs to pay the mortgage? lets look at communities that foster better parenting and see if there's anything we can do better emulate them, rather than becoming the Lords of Discipline...becoming what we behold.