If parents want to know why their kids are stressed and bored, the parents need to look in the mirror. They let the kids sit around doing nothing, they pamper the kids, they don’t challenge the kids. They don’t require anything of the kids — like work — that would give the kids a sense of self-worth.
I think that’s late stage behaviors (permissiveness).
I believe early deficits in parenting (neglecting basic parental roles) created, sadly, children who are underdeveloped emotionally. For too many, they will be permanently children as they age - self centered, impatient, bored.
The neglect of their children comes back to haunt parents starting around teen aged years and getting more obvious as the children age into narcissistic, angry people. I believe our country is facing an ominous rise in emotional/mental disturbance in the younger generation among those who had “modern” self centered parents who tried to make sure having children didn’t impede ANY of their own lifes wants, wishes, “needs.”
Read a report recently saying college counseling services are overwhelmed ( 3 times more students in need) by students requiring “serious” mental health services for depression and other illneses. I want schools to have counselors for troubled students - it really can save them from suicide etc. I don’t believe all students with emotional problems had “bad” parents - there are many mental illnesses and syndromes that are of unknown origin or have organic causes etc. But you just can’t staff enough services to make up for the way our society has added to common mental health issues by making parenting more of a side hobby. The tsunami of emotional problems resulting from “best buddy” or “never home” parenting is coming and it’s going to continue to grow.