Is Discipline Non-Existent These Days?

[Toregone]

I don't think this is really true. If you think about it, we have it so so so easy. We don't have to wash clothes by hand, hand carry water, chop wood, cook off a wood stove, work the fields, raise our own meats and vegetables, go by horse and carriage. We have stores that have everything we could possibly need all at one stop. We can purchase prepared food and just heat and serve. We can store the food easily our temp controlled house and our refrigerators.

We have instant access to each other. We have electricity, gas, entertainment at our finger TIPS. There couldn't be an easier time to raise children then now. We are NOT busier than our foremothers and fathers. We do NOT have it harder.

I would have to disagree somewhat. No I don't think we are busier per say but the lives we lead are so very different than that time it's comparing apples to oranges. No we don't have to chop wood, and wash laundry by hand but in the same token neither did they have 1.5 hour long daily commutes or parent teacher meetings. Society itself has also changed and life is less family/home-centric. Gone are the days of 6 kids at home HELPING mom wash laundry and dad chop wood. Parents nowadays balance tasks that are just as time consuming and do it without help because it's things kids can't do. Grandparents are less support because they themselves are often working.

Raising kids is tough regardless of if you were doing in now, 50 years or or 100 years ago. It's just tough in different ways.