Liberal amounts of absinthe for le kids ?
Must be just coincidence.
How can I resist?
Raising little surrender monkeys?
“The French copy no one, and no one copies the French.”
This woman is an idiot and I feel sorry for her children. From the earliest age my children were restaraunt ready. They knew what table manners, inside voives, and Mommy isn’t happy meant.
The fact that this dolt things the French are special....my only comment is go to the southern or western portion (not California which is an entirely different planet) and you will see plenty of well behaved children
I would not go so far as to say that they are superior parents but here in America there is a lot of “the world revolves around me” children that behave badly .......My three sons are now adults and they are great men but I have to admit when they were young......oi vey my eldest in particular was a bad, and no one to blame but us
1. Divorce rates. Children raised by single parents have far greater issues.
2. Over fixation on materialism and dual income parents that neglect the kids.
3. Convenience oriented society that is quick to medicate kids.
4. A society that has lost all concept of personal culpability and responsibility.
5. Over stimulation through MP3 players, PlayStation, the PC, cell phones and TV etc that cause a breakdown in social interactions and even communication skills.
6. A poor public education system that has become a day care center, is amoral/secular, doesn't teach to think nor conveys the basics in science, the humanities etc.
But I'm sure Pfizer will soon have some weird colored pill that will fix everything. lol
I think there’s some truth to this. Perhaps not a “French” thing but I’ve spent a fair amount of time in Sweden, France and Germany and the parents treat their children, even small children, more like little adults. They expect more from them, they don’t indulge them and they talk to them like adults. Their methods aren’t perfect but quite frankly, they are better in my opinion than the “you are special; what do you want” attitudes that American parents have toward their kids. We are raising little terrors who demand and scream for what they want and usually get it from their indulgent parents.
The most terrifying words U.S. parents hear from their kids are “I’m bored”. Once these words are spoken, the average parent is obligated to jump through hoops for their child.
There are some good points in the article, and in general American children are screaming brats (I don’t blame the children), but why does France still have to import Muslim fanatics to populate their country if their child rearing is so superior?
I have seen this progress since the 80s really...maybe even late 70s in progressive environs and urban areas.
It goes without saying the biggest issue is non parenting...no daddy or no mommy especially in black and latino communities and getting worse in lower class whites too who are blending anyhow with the former at breakneck speed with serial illegitimacy between chubby white women and multiple black not in the kid's life sires who are mimicking how they grew up themselves
But the real perplexity to me is how middle and upper class married white couples under 45 raise or raised their kids.
Very very coddling and indulgent...astounding...and often the father is meek and subservient to the mother's henpecking and dominance over child raising in which they follow all the PC mindset...no guns..not even toys, no war,no fighting or rough play, no big dogs, not much outdoor stuff but soccer where mom won't stay off the field...Prius drivers...maybe a Honda CVR if they are more liberated
and so on....papoose daddy...
the first inkling I ever saw this was in 1983 at a young Jewish doctor couple in Albany NY when I was visiting...my girlfriend had gone to Cornell with them...and even both of us were just amazed at the way the mom ran things and they moved at every whim of the kid...to me it was a recipe for a neurotic adult one day...no to say all Jews do this but dominant moms and progressive thinking is not unknown to that culture
that was sorta the progressive footprint for white household parenting which has sure taken hold
now here we are...urban Nashville in the white communities is all just like that now...a copy
only out in the country and in some suburban areas do you see the old ways much
it's awful...
one set of kids unraised
and the others smothered and raised as whiney brats with no spine
what a mess
Their only cultural immersion is what's on TV, usually MTV. Seen MTV lately?
They have no value or appreciation for knowledge or education. No basic instruction in manners. No respect for any authority.
They are really eternal 6 year olds and never mature beyond that.
They are less civilized than Islamic Arabs.
In CA you can see this in spades.
If you are in a nice part of town composed mostly of two-parent households (even if not the original parents), kids are generally well-behaved and respectful as they have learned that behavior from their parents.
Head to the other side of town and the exact opposite is true.
It's Lord of the Flies on a truly grand scale.
Delayed gratification is something that quite a few adults need to learn also - they would have less debt.
France did get around to outlawing incest in 2010
They are so advanced. lol
What utter nonsense! The author does not understand that overindulgence has become the norm for some parents...nothing good ever comes from indulging children. I have 4 and they are polite and respectful. Not because I let them tear up napkins and sugar packets at restaurants but because I taught them the meaning of the word no very early on. I blame liberal child psychologists who after years of study still don’t understand human nature.
“Train a child in the way he should go and when he is old he won’t depart from it.”
Because they teach their children how to go "oui oui" without getting any on the toilet seat?
I didn’t read the article but I’ve lived and patented in francophone Europe. The French do not like raising the kids from the heart. From the start they put them in uncomfortable clothes and they looked down on me,a stay at home mom, as being un esclave a mon bebe. (slave to my baby). Their kids either had nannies or were in creches (daycare). I prefer a messy, real, strong willed American child to perfect obedience and total neurosis.
As you sow, so shall you reap. Guess what. Liberal bedwetting schools begat liberal bedwetting parents that raise liberal bedwetting children.
Go to farm country and see those well-behaved children. They take on responsibility young. Check out the home-schooled offspring of devout Christian parents. They don’t suffer the problems the idiot author alludes to.
I was raised in the pre Dr. Spock 1960s when parents were still moderately strict, kids played on their own, and we didn’t generally talk back or act out.
As you sow, so shall you reap. We are reaping the whirlwind.