Its a cross between Bohemian parenting and Helicopter parenting.
Yes.
Yes - they’ve been doing that for years.
I’ve seen their kids... yes.
Yep.
Absolutely they do raise their kids that way. We have seen it over and over again. Liberals don’t know any better.
As I have pointed out in the past, I believe strongly that the Dr. Spock method of rearing children prevelant in the 50’s and 60’s is quite responsible for the increase in the sheer idiocy we face in our society today.
Yes, but kids rebel. And when the parents are ‘Godless liberals’, the kids start turning to order and structure and morality, or so I’ve been told. The opposite seems to hold true as well though...
Speaking from personal experience, I might have ‘turned out better’ (from a religious perspective) if they hadn’t of raised me so well (churchgoing, strict, etc.). My faith, having been at ‘full’ for 5-10 years, had nowhere to go but down. Things that sit, without growing, stagnate. So, instead of finding faith later in life (having a lack of it), I lost much faith, because I had it all to start (was full to capacity).
Personal guilt tells them they must. Bringing consequences to bear on their children’s behavior while side-stepping the same for their own would result in hypocrisy. The liberal, being haughty and high-minded (and, of course, self-deluded), cannot abide such a thought, so they exact no consequences from their children.
Exhibit A: Al Gore III
Yes, people raised consequence free and without boundaries tend to have screwed up kids.
Of course...their little darlings are perfect.
On the other political spectrum the instruction ranges from high achievement through home schooling because the family is toooo good to be exposed to the ‘evils’ in this world.
Further I have encountered as many so called conservatives that believe it their ‘God-given’ duty to demonstrate their compassion by inviting every illegal to share the blessing of this nation.
Liberals are doormats. They lack self-esteem and will give anything and say anything to be liked or at least to perceive being liked.
In the political arena, this behavior produces the welfare state, unchecked illegal immigration and dangerously naive pacifism.
In the home, it produces undisciplined and unruly children whose parents are afraid of being the “bad guy” even for a few minutes and when it will produce long-term benefits for the child.
The ones in my neighborhood don’t raise “her” kids and there is no “their” to it.
Yes, absolutely.
The concept of “consequences of choices” just isn’t in their mindset.
Someone gets caught for drunk driving, and, if they’re rich or powerful enough, “it’s a disease, they can’t help it”.
It comes from their absolute petrifying fear of being “discriminatory” - even to the point of discriminating between destruction and constructive behavior.
Of course they do! That’s how the US got to be such a mess: Make rules, but don’t enforce them. Whenever somebody breaks the rule, just make a new rule which allows for bad behavior. Check out how your local school handles bad behavior, you have another example.
Yes they do. My pet peeve is being in a checkout line and Mom is trying to control her screeching little “angel” with, “Johnny, you need to stop that. Thank you.” Needless to say, the screeching continues.
My lib neighbor’s kids and dogs are constantly tearing up my yard - and worse, in the latter case.
They just let them run rampant, and then just complain our neighborhood is just not, and I quote, “progressive enough”.
Just by looking around me (I live in an extremely liberal part of the country) I would give a resounding YES.
susie
Its a cross between Bohemian parenting and Helicopter parenting.
