Today I was at the barber shop getting my hair cut and some kid about 6 years old was playing some game on his iPad and started to lose so he started to cry, so his mom tried to help him in the game and made him lose again so he started to cry even louder and then proceeded to slug his mom in the chest a couple times, then continued to hit her about a dozen more times and all she did was say "It's ok baby, I'm sorry" and pander to him.
Then the other day I was grocery shopping and some 7 year old girl wanted some kind of ice cream and her older sister wanted another kind of ice cream and the mom chose to get the older sister's ice cream instead and the 7 year old started to throw a tantrum and threw the box of ice cream across the aisle. Of course the mom says "It's ok honey we will get both" instead of issuing some kind of reprimand.
I will tell you this if I pulled any of that shit when I was a kid my parents, either my mom or dad, would have thrown me up against the wall and then some. I got spanked, beat, whooped, kicked, thrown, and every thing in between. And I deserved it every time.
Do parents just not discipline their kids anymore? It's as if they want to be friends with their kids rather than be parents. Instead of being authoritative and commanding, parents instead phrase everything in the form of a question. Instead of saying "It's time for dinner, turn off the TV" its "It's time for dinner, turn off the TV, OK?" Polling shows that less and less parents spank their kids and resort to joke punishment like the "timeout chair" or "naughty room" that do nothing. The liberal PC crowd also is marching saying that spanking is abuse.
This, combined with the fact discipline in schools has become a joke, is why our society is in major decline.