Parental Discipline Case Study

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In the case of parental discipline, how most families go about it is fundamentally embedded in our religious upbringing, teachings, and traditions. It should be noted: going from one generational cultural philosophical extreme to the other can be detrimental to that next generation and their culture. Like so many of my traditional Religious Leader types and Christian friends, I, too, was a drug baby! I was drugged to church day, and night, and twice on Sundays for a minimum of two (2) hours and more on many occasions. Not every culture believes in dragging their kids to church. But even if you weren’t in Sunday school some place growing up you were doing something with your time. Nothing counts as something too. Whatever it was, logging that many hours under your particular religious roof is not something that should be ignored by social powers and constructs without proper acknowledgment, understanding, provision, and leniency. On the flip side, I can’t tell you how many times I’ve heard people in my generation say “When I’m grown, I’m never taking my children to church.” And for all the parents who actually kept that promise, I’d imagine if they can go back and rethink that decision most would. I believe this …show more content…

Again, I think a politically correct society is also reflected negatively in politically incorrect “me first” driving. The first chance we get we let other drivers know who we really are and it’s nowhere close to the pretty perfect little society some of us naively think we’ve created today. Our mentality when we get behind the wheel and hit the road is the same strong willed thinking we display when we unwisely back ourselves into that proverbial corner because we’ve already decided “it’s my way or the

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