Rise of the violent 'Little Emperors': Children lashing out at parents to get own way

The Daily Mail ^ | 07/11/11 | Sarah Harris

[Winstons Julia]

He said the age at which children were violent and disrespectful towards their teachers 'is coming down to nursery level'. He added: 'They’re swearing and throwing chairs at their teachers at younger and younger ages. It isn’t surprising this is happening in a domestic setting. 'Parent abuse and parent battery appear to be on the rise and what seems to underlie this is to do with parenting, the lack of boundaries and the reversal of authority.

[Persevero]

Someone is going to be in charge.

If it’s not the parent, it’s the child.

[GeronL]

I know a girl who treats her parents like her servants, and they do whatever she wants

[riverrunner]

If parents would only remember that the hand of all knowlegde applied to the seat of all learning solves most behavior problems.

Other wise know as spank their butts.

[Baynative]

Children are learning from the liberal playbook that it is possible to take charge of any situation by playing the victim card.

I have a friend who is a teacher. # years ago he was walking around his 8th grade classroom when he spotted a pint bottle of Southern Comfort in a young girl's desk. When the bell rang he asked her to stay after and the rest of the class left the room.

He told her they were going to visit the principal where she could explain what the booze was doing in her desk. She immediately ran into the hallway screaming, "He's grabbing me!"

He is finally teaching again, but she made his life hell for 2 1/2 years while he was suspended and investigated.

While he was dumb for putting himself alone with her in the room, she was well schooled in how to take control and through the entire episode the topic of the booze and/or parental responsibility never came up. It was all about him and whether he was a pervert. She immediately had legal assistance and he was left to fend for himself. Even the teachers union that he is forced to belong to came down on him.

[cripplecreek]

The empowerment garbage starts early in the schools and continues through college.

[He Rides A White Horse]

He said: 'We are looking at a generation of children who are not getting simple ground rules, where boundaries are put in place.

In a great deal of cases, it's because social services. I know somebody who had a brat that would threaten to call them if she didn't get their way. Another is going through hell with her now teenaged monster.

[He Rides A White Horse]

I agree. See post 7 however.

[cripplecreek]

If you've got a couple of hours to watch the best documentary on the rise and fall of the third reich ever made, you'll be horrified at how much you see in our modern America.

What they did to the children comes up often in this one.

Third Reich - The Rise

A young boy attacking his mother with a dagger while screaming "I belong to the furher". Boarding schools with 80% pregancy rates among 16 year old girls. Children threatening to hand parents over to the gestapo.

[apillar]

Sad thing is, in many instances parents actual enable this behavior. I witnessed it recently at the local pool, I was sitting with one of the mother of a boy that looked to be around 11, he talked to her like dirt and argued anytime she asked him to do something, in one instance he asked her for money to buy pizza at the snack bar, when she told him she had only brought enough to get into the pool, he walked away and said loudly, "Then you're a dumba$$." The amazing thing was, she just laughed and said, "He's a little firecracker." and actually seemed proud.

Also, check out some of the sitcoms aimed at tweens and teens on the Disney Channel and Nickelodeon. Virtually every parent is portrayed as clueless and dumb as dirt, while the kids are smart alecks, who constantly outsmart and disobey mom and dad.

[hinckley buzzard]

True. I have worked with parents who, when I told them they were the boss and not their kid, looked at me in wide-eyed wonder. IDK where this crap began, but parents need to rule their own homes as autocrats, not democratically elected leaders.

[Winstons Julia]

That’s how we got the president we have.

[Norm Lenhart]

And after teaching kids in school to turn their parents in to the cops for so-called ‘abuse’, what did people expect would happen exactly?

[Winstons Julia]

Kids aren’t grateful anymore. “Gee mom... thanks for bringing me to the pool”? No.

And too many parents think that love means providing a kid with the stuff that they want ... all the time.

[17th Miss Regt]

I am willing to bet that the parents of this young ‘lady’ are now wishing they had chosen another approach to child-rearing.

[redhead]

"If parents would only remember that the hand of all knowlegde applied to the seat of all learning solves most behavior problems."

My kids (boys) were all raised by the Board of Education. It was applied vigorously and frequently to their seat of learning. Still have it, and have used it on my two grandsons. :o) Still works, too!

[BobL]

I was no better as a kid...given that my parents bought into the Dr. Spock crap.

...but I did learn from that and my kids don’t get away with jack, and when they try it, they are hurting for it.

...and the ironic thing is that kids (at least our kids) appreciate the structure that it brings, even while they’re young.

[BobL]

“I am willing to bet that the parents of this young ‘lady’ are now wishing they had chosen another approach to child-rearing.

Well in England, using the proper approach is the fastest way to get thrown in jail. I even worried about it here in Texas and took some preventive steps.

[Himyar]

My son tried this on me once. I reminded him that we lived in the country and that he would be dead by the time they got here.

[Chode]

i raised a boy and three girls and i'll tell you this...

you usually get a lot more of what you put up with

so you don't put up with any crap with the first one, and you damn well don't put up with it with those that follow