Teach your kids that all guns can kill and are not a toys, and the age shouldn't matter. IMO
^^^ THIS !!!
All this isht we see happening now? The mass shootings and stuff? Has deek to do guns. It has to do with corporate greed and, by proxy, govt greed. The insatiable need to increase profits every year, by both of them, leads to higher prices and more taxes and devluation of our dollar... which in turn, leads to both parents needing to work if you're ever gonna get ahead of the curve, or if you have any dreams of ever owning a home... which in turn leads to less-supervised kids... which leads to less opportunities for us, as the parents, to make use of their bad choices at times as teaching moments.
Also... all these dumb@sses getting in an upraor over the use of corporal punishment! If done right.... you almost never have to use it... but it DOES need to be part of your toolset in terms of correcting your child from time to time.
Problem is... since soo many of these Parents feel over-worked, since they gotta get their hustle and grind on... many of them don't "man-up" and step up to the task of raising the damn kids they brought into this world. They'd rather shove a phone or a tablet under their face, rather than engage with their kid, or willfully make sure to plan physical activity for their damn kid. Rather than prep the kid to be a self-sufficient autonomous human being.
Another BIG problem I have? In schools... NOW...if an incident happens between two kids... any kid that lays hands on any other kid gets punished.. EVEN WHEN IT WAS IN RESPONSE/RETALIATION TO THE OTHER KID THAT STARTED IT! THAT... is NOT COOL.. and THAT will ALSO lead to these kids not learning that there are consequences to their actions. How the hell are they gonna learn "Don't Start None... Won't BE None." AND... how will they ever learn to assert and confront bullies and protect themselves... if every time they do... your dumb @ss wants to punish them?
Indeed... nobodies kids *should* be hurting anybody elses kid. BUT... if somebody else started the sh!t?.. Naw..EFF that man...it's fair game. And the one who didn't start it... should be free from any reprimand.
That's the way it was when we were growing up. Not only that... if you were bad, the principals could swat your @ss too! And be honest, sometimes you'd deserve it.
ACTION... REACTION. Cause and Effect. Causality. A big part of what's missing today. And these dumb @sses today lack long-range thinking in terms of their policies and their effects on behavorial development. Remember all the "Everybody's a winner kids"? And how that worked out?