They Need a Flyswatter!

So this is a post I wrote back towards the end of school last year. I apparently was fed up with some "special" brand of kiddo.  Hahaha!  Enjoy my months-old rant!

For the love of all that is holy and good in this world - teach your children to obey adults! I am about to lose my mind over children who cannot or simply WILL not follow directions they are given by an adult.  They do not need to be coaxed, they do not need to be begged, they do not need to be coddled or convinced or petted or counseled or loved on - they need to freaking DO what they are told to do WHEN they are told to do it.  I see a very sad situation in school children today that is going to create a huge problem when they are grown.  They are being raised by parents who were entitled children, and now they're creating little mini versions of the entitled brats that they were.  Because instead of teaching them how to behave at home and whipping their little behinds when they disobey, they are sent to school to be taught these things by their teachers, whose hands are tied by stupid laws.  They can't spank them, or pop their hands, or sit them in a corner, or anything that will actually teach them what they should have learned at home.  So when the little brats don't get their way, they get a consequence which they care nothing about, OR they flip out over the consequence and throw a temper tantrum like a 2-year-old.  And when it happens repeatedly their parents decide they must have ODD, which for all you non-teacher folks, means Oppositional Defiance Disorder.  I must be kidding, right? That can't actually be a thing, right?  WRONG. It's a "Thing" now.  Except it's not a thing to me- it's bullsh*t.  They aren't ODD, they're just plain ole' B-A-D and they need their butt whipped by a nice thick paddle in the principal's office or their momma's wooden spoon. Or fly-swatter (if you lived in Lyda Sue's house.)  And they will not be scarred for life if you spank them, they will not hate you forever, and no one will send DHS to your house.  But the child WILL learn to follow directions, obey rules they are given, and respect adults.   And they will grow into productive citizens that are able to take care of themselves and eventually YOU.  Yes, I'm sure there are actually people who have some actual disorder, ODD or otherwise, and yes there are people who actually have ADD/ADHD.  But just because he doesn''t mind doesn't make your kid ODD, it makes him need a whipping and a lesson in respect.   And just because your kid can't sit still in class doesn't make him ADD - it means he needs to run and play outside instead of playing video games on the couch all weekend and every afternoon.  But at this point, I am seriously worried about my future caretakers in my nursing home when I'm 90........  I'm going to die from an overdose because my nurse is an over-diagnosed brat who can't follow directions or pay attention to what her boss said because she's too busy taking selfies to post on her page so she can get a new boyfriend to take care of her and her ODD kid.