A kid who sits around all day at a video terminal does not risk going out and having him and his parents ridiculed which is the story here and it’s terrifying.
We’re so ready to say it’s bad to say the maid always did that or no I can’t function in society at ten years old how independent do you want me to be before I’m an adult
But I think the worst is for a person in the role of instructor to judge the students’ mother. To in any way ridicule her. It’s a kids worst fear. And the kid will either withdraw and not learn, hate the instructor, or join in and despise the mother.
The leader who leads without dragging kids’ mothers into it, either during or after, in a judgemental gossip session, is the one the kid will respect and learn from
Which brings us back to what Melania said
“...first and foremost, parents’ responsibility to raise their children to be moral, charitable, and to have love of country.”
Which entails not allowing ones’ child to have leaders who would disrespect tge parent
The lifeguard at our local beach taught us how to raise and lower and fold the flag. And properly, with respect. He left our parents out of it. He could have thought “where are these kids’ parents all day tgat these urchins are here before I even have my coffee?” But he put us to work I know how to hose off the boardwalk, how to use a master key, how to put a deck chair together and not to run on the pier and why it’s especially dangerous
And not one snarky word about my mother
It’s why I remember that lifeguard his name, where he went to college, his lovely mother, and what his father did for a living
My mother made sure I was around good people. That was what her important job was. Making sure she married a good provider so we could have those advantages.
If you can point out exactly where in my original comment I said anything about my friend ridiculing the child I will back off.
I said he told me the story. I never said he ridiculed the kid. He patiently taught the young whippersnapper how to wield a broom.
That’s how we both roll
Apparently in your world we’re not allowed to tell funny stories of things that happened years before either.
I think there’s a high horse you need to step down from.