Thank you! I hate to try to scare people, but I see so many who really don't understand how fast they can bring trouble down on their own heads. A relative was relaying a conversation they had in the ER recently when they were questioned about guns in their home and all I could think was, "You're very blessed you didn't have CPS on your doorstep the next day". And the truth is the relative didn't say anything that should've been problematic in any way! But that's the climate we live in.

Sadly, what's happening is that because good parents cannot and should not ever discipline in public, it makes people believe that parents who have good children don't discipline and they can get the same results without doing anything with their little crumb-crunchers. And also the idea of "discipline" is conflated with "abuse", making the problem even worse. 3 year olds end up running the household and never learn the character, strength and wisdom they're going to need to be good parents themselves, sinking the next generation even further into chaos and confusion. Oy, what a mess.