I would not want to be a kid in today's world. What are we doing to cultivate a emotionally healthy environs for our children?

you say Ugh to spankings, but about the time they were stopped, is when children went to fuck.

Children do not need more love, or more coddling, or more being told how wonderful they are. They need parents who can make an honest assessment of their abilities and skills, and help them to fix the areas that are broken, and broaden their horizons.

the only real way to give a child long term self esteem and self worth, and to make them worth it, teach them to do things. make them better than the average, then, they will always feel good about themselves.

yep, anything going on in the world of major proportions these people care only about their immediate world, nothing else matters - that's the world as we know it now is very, very sad, with all the greed, me, me, me, i want, i want, etc... when things in the world start going very wrong and indications of that seem very close with current trends globally then these people are going to freak out with unbelievable consequences

agreed. and all of that can be accomplished without physically striking a child.

they learn more with reason, consequences and rewards.