Kids Today
I feel compelled to write something about those poor Polish fellas that were murdered last week by those little scumbags in Dublin. I, like every other sane person in the country was shocked and disgusted by the violence of the murders. I was left wondering why this type of thing didn’t happen when I was younger. I began to remember what life was like growing up in my house.
There were no angels in my house for sure, but none of us, or anyone I knew, would have ever even contemplated stabbing someone. What makes it so hard to believe is that these kids thought that it was acceptable to do something so horrific. Looking back, it is clear to see that it was definitely my parents that kept me and my brothers on the straight and narrow. We all knew our parents were to be feared! I was never that afraid of the police because, truthfully, they had nothing on my parents. The police couldn’t give you a good kick up the ass (well they weren’t supposed to anyway), they didn’t give you the silent treatment for a week, they didn’t stop you going to the latest teenage disco in the local GAA club. And if for some reason or another any of us did get into trouble, which usually involved one of my brothers fighting, the police were never brought into it. I think it was a mixture of things that never brought the police to our doorstep; luck, a distrust of police, the shame of having a squad car outside our house. But the main reason, I believe is that my parents were determined to discipline and teach respect to their own kids, we were their kids and they would be the ones to deal with us.
Nowadays, there seems to be loads of parents leaving it up to the police to discipline their kids. Is it that parents are just not bothered or is it that kids have actually gotten worse? There has certainly always been rough kids around. When I was a teenager there were always fights between different gangs, schools and towns going on, it was just a part of life. It never went any further than kicking and punching, and certainly no one was ever stabbed. Things have definitely changed, kids need boundaries and they need their parents to put them firmly in their place, not the police.
March 11th, 2008 at 8:56 pm
These types of post always make me hop on me soap-box and yabber on about this and that. It is my generation and those beneath me that are the true scum that lingers nastily on Irish society - the 25’s and unders. They ARE worse than previous generations. The scumbags of old were nasty pieces of work for sure, but they had a level of respect. I remember my aunt telling me about the major drug dealer that lived near her and how nice a man he was to her - now he would have been in his mid 30’s by now, but he had a bit of respect ya know? He stopped a gang of little shits from robbing my aunts purse and she always felt safe when he was around even though he was a serious criminal.
He only ever beat the shit out of other scumbags.
That’s where things have gone all wrong.
It’s not scum attacking scum anymore, it’s the innocents that are getting dragged into it that are making this all so surreal and making it much, much worse than years before. It’s little knacker-drinking children that want you to buy them their alcohol against the rest of us who want nothing to do with them. And if you don’t try to fit into their clique or, at the very least, do as you are told by them when you are told, then they come at you with a screwdriver. When all you were doing in the first place was going to the shop for a litre of milk.
Little bastards.
You don’t have that problem in the US. Granted you have gun-crime and all that malarky but there’s no obnoxious, loitering teens to contend with.
March 20th, 2008 at 11:50 pm
Yeah it’s gone mad alright. There were always scumbags around but now they seem to have gone forth and multiplied. I would seriously love to know though what type of families rare kids like these. Is it your average family where the kid gets in with the wrong crowd? Or is it the rough family where the parents don’t give two shits? Or is it the rich family where the parents give money willingly instead of time and supervision? Because when something like this happens its blatantly obvious that someone fucked up big time bringing up their kid.