[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.

[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.

[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?

[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.

[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

[Tax-chick]

One of the studies, from Brigham Young University, Utah, published in the American Association of Behavioural and Social Sciences Journal, found 82 per cent of parental abuse is against mothers.

Could that be because 82% of violent children don't have fathers in their homes?

[Bigg Red]

...what seems to underlie this is to do with parenting, the lack of boundaries and the reversal of authority.

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Gee, ya’ think? These parents turn the child over to strangers to raise when they are 6 weeks old and don’t bother to teach the kid any manners, and then they wonder why the child is not civilized.

[RatRipper]

My two sons tried when small and received lightening fast correction once or twice. That is all it took. They are productive, well-mannered twenty-something young men now and we have super father-son relationship. I am proud of them and they love, respect and are proud of me. Screw the psycho-babble and libtard advice. An old-fashioned raisin’ is the best.

[Immerito]

When many mental disorders were redefined (so that children displaying even a few of the symptoms were diagnosed with the disease), too many parents used it as justification for poor parenting.

Good parents of special needs children know that you need to give them clear boundaries and firm discipline (just as you do with “normal needs” children). When this is not done, bad parents blame the victim of their child’s assault, not the evidence of their poor parenting.