I was talking to my mom while waiting for to go back in the doctors office and we were observing my two sons playing with these kids on their Nintindo DS’s. I notice one little girl had the wood wedge shoes on. I told my mom I missed those and the little princess high heels I had and the jelly shoes, and she looked at me and smiled. Then I told her about a recent girls night and a friend brought up the jelly shoes and I said “I so had those!!”. That’s when we started talking about the jelly bracelets and how they are band in the schools. My mom had know idea so I explained it to her. In my day it was bandanas and wearing solid one color clothing. In her day it was skirts below the knee and “greasers” with switch blade knives. In her day kids knew better to do wrong; there was the fear of God and the fear of the household male figure. My day it was not as stringent, but the government also increased CPS’S authority which gave children the power to threaten their parents with. At the same time children got meaner and more violent. So in turn good kids had to get meaner to protect themselves. Where does it all end?? Where did it begin?? The second parents were to told how they could and could not rasie and discipline and punish their children; The second religeon took a back seat; When prayer was taken from school; Most importantly when church’s became more political than a religeous sanctuary of truth, peace, and freedom. So when and how do we get our lives and our children back???