Society as a whole is failing our kids. I barely graduated highschool myself, I took the remedial English classes and barely passed them. Now 19 years later I am responsible for writing sailors performance evaluations, I see some Officers that have 4 year college degrees and their writing is worse than mine. Young adults cant even balance a check book nowadays. I learned how to write checks and balance a check book in Math class in the 8th grade. I have 25 year olds that cant do it. Parents now a days are not parenting they do everything for there kids to protect them. We are protecting our kids, I prefer pacifying, and not teaching them or preparing them for the real world.
I am proud of what I do and do my best to take care of my sailors, but there are times I am absolutley overwhelmed trying to deal with their personal problems when I have my own at home. Grown men cant figure out how to pay bills or what they need to do to file their taxes. How to register their car or where to get insurance. In this age of the computer everything is at your finger tips and they cant find anything on their own. They are so lazy they cant "google" something for the answer. If my wife and I have another kid we are not gonna mess this one up, the other 3 its too late for.
At work my First Class came up with the rule that if you are late you are responsible for taking the trash out everyday until someone else is late. We had problems with people being late on a regular basis. Well one guy showed up late and he was taking out trash for a month before someone else was late. It proved to be very effective and instead of having someone late everyday we now have some one late once a month. I can handle that.
