How old are your children, Lurks?
Dr MichaelCarr-Gregg suggests it is today's parents that are failing, which could well be our children or grandchildren.
It's not really their fault. Their image of parenting is no longer handed down from previous generations, indeed such advice is ignored and often ridiculed.
Dr Carr-Gregg goes on to say in the article "An evolution in parenting styles over the last 20 years is to blame for the influx of bad parenting",
In other words parenting methods have changed in the last 20 years and are not the same that you and I were raised with.
""Parents don't do anything (about uncontrolled and disrespectful behaviour) about it because they're frightened of being seen as bad parents or frightened to say no."
Young parents of today have so much pressure on them with work and commitments, they no longer really have time to raise their children and be good role models for them, instead relying on child-care centres, schools, TV, and social media. To the point where they forfeit their authority over their own children.
Children grow up with no real concept of authority and so have no respect for it.
Also:
"The high-strung, control-freak parents that want to smother their kids with so much love and attention and monitoring and supervision that they never, ever develop any self-reliance and can't solve their own problems later on."
It's a worrying trend when I see the headlines like this:
Mum speaks after Sydney party brawl
A Sydney mum whose teenager's birthday celebrations became the scene of a brutal stabbing has told how she tried to keep scores of gatecrashers out.
The mother who organised the party has told Channel 10 she urgently tried to wind the party down when carloads of youths armed with knives showed up.
"They came up to the gate, I told him to leave and basically he just told me to eff off, and he grabbed onto the fence and just started screaming stuff," the woman told the network.
Entire Article Here
This is not a one-off kind of incident, either.
