Whmankeworldofwords's Blog

The Canucks had a great season. They came within a game of winning the Stanley Cup. On reflection, that’s better than how well 28 of 30 other teams did this past season.

The really sad thing about the end of this last hockey season was what happened on the streets of Vancouver, after the final whistle of the Stanley Cup game seven.  Most of those young men and women rioting were children ten years ago. In their sober state they will look to us like many of the young people we might meet in a secondary school building or on a college campus.  Most would be able to boast of coming from, what people will call, a respectable family.  So what went wrong?

It seems to me that we have to go back to the childhood years of those rioting individuals. Modern thought on child rearing has told us that the old folks didn’t have a clue on how to raise children to become well adjusted adults. The expert in the last couple of decades have pointed to methods like spanking, and many other ways of correcting children that they called old fashioned, as terribly detrimental to them.  It is safe to say that last night’s young rioters were reared in the modern way.  Most will never have had a spanking.  But based on what we saw happen last night  in Vancouver, what grade can we give the modern child rearing expert?  What was last night’s evidence of how successful the modern way really is?

From the young rioters’ actions last night is is clear that they have not learned to respect themselves and others. They have no idea of the importance of a good name.  Their behavior told us that they do not know what the value of property is to their well being. Are these young people well on the way to becoming well adjusted adults?  After last night’s sad display of our young people’s maturity we must ask ourselves, “Do the so called experts on child rearing have it all wrong? Have they duped us?” It is said that the proof of the quality of a cook is in the eating of  his pudding, and the pudding tasted rotten last night, to put it mildly.