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Mayhem in the Bread Aisle

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Wondering why America wants teens supervised in 2025... Have we made our kids lazy, lacking manner, bored. There is a reckoning for lack of parental discipline. Let the kids play outdoors, not in restaurants and grocery stores. Make your kid's environment wonderful at home, give them attention...don't rob them of that by inattention to their upbringing. Let's not talk "adulting" - let's grow up! 

Bread hit them like a ton of bricks.
Bread can make one very sick.

Man minding his own business,
Quickly became a mayhem witness.

The teenage four, like the Joker’s core,
destroying aisles in the grocery store.

On a hot eve, they hit my man with a fighting bag.
It’s all a game…received more than a finger wag.

Like all good criminals they forgot camera’s rolling.
For act-out job, the manager - police would be calling.

But not until the chase and the chastening from victim.
Wrong guy - hoodlums shouldn’t have picked on him.

Copyright © | Year Posted 2025




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Date: 8/21/2025 4:41:00 PM
timely and pertinent poem, Kim. Just today I saw two boys about 11 years old playing basketball in the toy aisle--their mother was just ahead of them...the lack of discipline creates entitled children who want to play even in adulthood....okay, this is my soap box. I'll stop now, have a wonderful evening, Sara
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Kim Rodrigues
Date: 8/21/2025 6:30:00 PM
Glad you joined in. Part of protection and love is discipline. Thank you, Sara!
Date: 8/21/2025 1:53:00 PM
Enjoyed all of them. And you are quite right, Kim: Let's not talk "adulting" - let's grow up! Well said that woman! :) john
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Kim Rodrigues
Date: 8/21/2025 6:29:00 PM
Thank you! We used to want to be grown up…what happened!

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