Posted on 03/25/2009 7:26:37 AM PDT by Notoriously Conservative
I don't know the status of parenting in America. But I know a little about the status of education in America. Parents' growing inability to impose manners and limits on their kids when the kids are in school is reflected in record dropout rates, as well as teen drug and alcohol abuse, teen sex, and unwed pregnancies. Maybe it's parenting that's on the decline, more than the schools.
Exhibit A: My wife and I have just been seated for dinner when the maitre d' walks over and seats a young family at the table next to us and the kids start carrying on like orangutans on a leash.
The parents are going, "Timmy, that's not nice, don't throw your food, stop stuffing your mashed potatoes up your nose." Are mom and dad having fun yet, picking food up off the floor, apologizing to people like us, and wiping food flung across the table off their faces?
Some parents still have this attitude that their kids are too special to be burdened by discipline. And the rest of us are supposed to put up with their little mutants. That attitude really pisses me off.
I hate to break it to them, but the kids aren't special, and I don't have to put up with their behavior. If you can't control your obnoxious little brats, leave them home.
They don't belong out in public annoying other people, period. I don't remember a generation of kids ever so indulged and enabled to behave so badly. What's going on?
I remember as a kid I was expected to behave myself out in public or suffer the wrath of one very angry father. And of all the things that used to piss him off, those expectations didn't seem unreasonable. Something's gone terribly wrong here. My guess is it has to do...
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“Wait til your father gets home” is all I had to hear....
My brother, a recent transplant from So. Cal, is always commenting on how remarkably well mannered kids are in restaurants and other public places here in the heart of Jesusland. It simply astonishes him.
Us ig’nert hillbillies still give the lil’ darlings a swat on the behind iffin they act up. They catch on quick.
You had to wait? Mom whipped my ass, and then dad did it again when I got home. Two lines, no waiting.
Good article.Until parents stop being their kids’ “buddies” and start being their parents,this is going to get worse and worse.
I don’t get it.
Darn kids, get off my lawn! Back in my day, blah blah blah...
It takes about a year or two to get kids to that stage. I punish my kids when they openly misbehave, but under 3 kids are constantly trying to convey something to their parents because speech hasn’t developed sufficiently yet. (I’m not gonna beat my 2 year old senseless to make you comfortable.) They’re getting much better as they get older. Parenting is about patience.
I know I’m doing something right, all of the teachers, even the ones they don’t like say, “They are the most pleasant, easy-going, respectful kids in the class.”
Lol.
One of the major problems that wasn’t raised it the ‘authority’ given children by our government and the courts. Many parents are fearful that if they do discipline, their children will turn on them. Children today know their ‘rights’ and aren’t sheepish about using them.
Just wondering, does the NotriouslyConservative guy have kids?
I don’t think memories from our own childhood are always accurate. While we may remember fearing our parents, our parents may remember us acting like pistols, just like the “modern” kids he describes.
hear hear
My 19 year old son just thanked me this morning. He said he appreciated me not being overbearing and trusting him to do the right thing.
It wasn’t always like that. He learned about firm unapproachable boundaries when he was very young, and to this day his father wouldn’t tolerate his showing the least bit of disrespect to me.
Most importantly, he has been taught to fear the ever present Lord. Once that lesson is learned, the parents have half their work done.
this guy is off base. When my kids misbehaved in public like that, i did not hesitate to crack them in the behind if necessary, and I would also scold them in public if their behavior warranted it. Each child only acted out of line in public once or twice. After that they were well behaved, and they all turned out well. The problem is the fact that this guy states that spanking and scolding in public is unacceptable. The authors own words betray him as a closet lib....
Yes I have a son, and no, I didn’t write the article.
BINGO! We have a winner. Great post!
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