Coddling "Little"Johnny

Listening to a local talk radio show the other day, I couldn’t help but notice how the subject matter, brought the liberal out of the guest.
The subject was about crime and youth and a highly successful non-profit program in Sarnia Ontario under the name of Rebound .
I was bothered while listening to the guest list the reasons (excuses), that where responsible for crime among the youth, their families and communities.

Busy parents, video games, peer pressure, the regular old shtick. Yes there are lots of potential problems for sure, in our society and those parents honestly blindsided by a teen’s depression, as well those teens good at heart, but made a youthful mistake (mild crime) should have help available.

However listening to the soft logic of the guest and grabbing my cell to call and voice my differing opinion, only to get a busy signal.Luckily some callers already sensed the guest was a liberal progressive softy, and where trying to dispel her points.

The host was asking some good questions.

Do you see a certain age group as the biggest problem?

Is one family dynamic worse than the next when it comes to teens committing crimes?

Do you see more boys or girls in your program?

These are not exactly worded as asked, but as I recall accurately represent what the host was trying to get to; “the meat of things”

The guests’ answers to these questions can basically be boiled down to “liberalese”.

I hate singling one group or person. The problems are equally spread out, no matter what circumstance or what gender happened to pertain to the kids in her program. In other words, she hid the real facts(whatever they happen to be) beneath political correctness. For example the host asked if the guest’s program uses the soft approach, the guest thought effective would be a better word.(I’m guessing soft was a great guess).

Isn’t coddling one from reality one of the reasons kids are in her program in the first place?

To her “boot camps” where negative”, as well as listing the names of young offenders. Parenting to her was rocket science, and kids not knowing right from wrong by twelve seemed unfortunate but not disgusting. She also felt that video games actually fed these children their reality and they where unable to distinguish their real world. In that case they should be made to watch The Chronicles of Narnia for a week straight maybe then they’ll straighten up their act, if her reasoning is so valid. I would actually agree with her if I didn’t already have a good idea any kind of Christian themed entertainment would be looked at by her like it was a plate of boiled brussel sprouts.

Can’t one be stern and then compassionate? Does not grabbing a teen by the shirt collar, looking them straight in the eye, while laying out the gist of their life that lays ahead on their present(I'm a piss-ant and proud of it) course, not have something clear to add to their rationality?

These kids aren’t stupid, actually I’d guess they are all rather smart, maybe we should be treating them like they are, not treating them like handicaps that somehow are excused from knowing right from wrong, when in reality they would rather act out and not give a damn about any moral rule, except their own. Trouble is at one time freedom came with personal responsibility.

Parents do have problems they are not supposed to be perfect, some don’t notice the signs and some couldn’t care to. That’s life, and sometimes young human beings are not given the best guardians, its sad sure but don’t all of us have to rise to some occasion that doesn’t see self pity as productive, or irrational when it isn’t warranted as a perpetual crutch.

We have had generations of “progressive” means on countering negative progress, it isn’t working.

I do not doubt the caring shown by the guest when it came to teens, but until people in her position call a spade a spade, things will never change.

Denial is for dead donkeys and societies that fall victim to their bleeding hearts.