Australian parents raising a generation of spoilt brats

[icyfroth]

A prominent Australian psychologist has warned Australia is currently raising a generation of spoilt brats, because their parents are "**bleep**" and "never say no".

Dr Michael Carr-Gregg believes today's parents have a lot to answer for, and there may be serious long-term consequences for Australia. 

An evolution in parenting styles over the last 20 years is to blame for the influx of bad parenting, Dr Carr-Gregg said.

"We've had people moving to these artificial villages called cities, primarily to get jobs and in doing so, a lot of the kinship networks have been destroyed.

An evolution in parenting styles over the last 20 years is to blame for the influx of bad parenting, Dr Carr-Gregg said.

"We've had people moving to these artificial villages called cities, primarily to get jobs and in doing so, a lot of the kinship networks have been destroyed.

"A lot of the wisdom around parenting, which was derived from grandparents, for example, has no longer been so readily available."

The consequences of bad parenting has both short- and long-term effects, warned Dr Carr-Gregg.

"The short-term consequences you can see in restaurants and in waiting rooms and in airports throughout Australia, where you have these kids who are just completely feral, running out of control.

"Parents don't do anything about it because they're frightened of being seen as bad parents or frightened to say no."

Dr Carr-Gregg said this style of parenting has major effects on the mental health of children and adolescents as they grow up.

"Long-term, I think what we're doing is infantilising a lot of children into incompetence."

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Shopping on Friday, a kid was running up and down the aisle upsetting ppls shopping cart and running into ppl. His Dad never said a word. I wanted to tell the kid to stop his mad running but I wasn't game lol.

[bluecat*dancing]

Why is it that mums who work are being disparaged? Its tough enough being a parent without being labeled irresponsible etc because you don't follow the 1950's model of motherhood. Its the quality of care that matters.

[azureline**]

Agreed....................and what about the stay at home mums of the 50's who lived on Bex and Vincents powders................ and alcohol?

[icyfroth]

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@azureline** wrote:

Agreed....................and what about the stay at home mums of the 50's who lived on Bex and Vincents powders................ and alcohol?

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what percentage were they?

[mugssy65]

They don't call WA the nanny state for nothing!
Yep here we don't have first second or third in junior races, everyone gets a ribbon that says I ran a race, in team sports no winners or looser until the kids are 10 and in BMX all sprockets, 2-8 year olds every rider gets a medal/trophy. These are rules set up by the government and if you get funding eg Smarter than smoking you must play by their rules!

[tall_bearded01]

I grew up in the then outer western suburbs of Sydney (Cabramatta/Canley Heights)

Both my mum and dad, like just about every other family we knew, worked.

They left at 5:30- 6.00 every morning.

No, childcare centres or before school or after school care, and even if they existed no one I knew could afford them, so it fell to the eldest (usually at about age six or seven-years-old) to look after the younger children.

Get them up a 7.00, make sure they had breakfast, get the youngest of to the old lady next door to be looked after for the day, and walk the rest to school.

Get home from school, take the pre-cooked meal (cooked the Sunday) before out of the fridge and into the oven, and if you didn’t want a clip behind the ear make sure you made some effort to get the housework done.

Mon and Dad got home, time to eat do the dishes and homework (no TV before that was completed).

Now we seem to have turned out OK. We knew we we’re loved. We also knew to get by we had to pull our share of the load, so we just got on with it. And guess what, I know of no one who required the assistance of shank.

In fact if he truth be known, the families with most problems we those few where Mum stayed at home. 

[azureline**]

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@mugssy65 wrote:
They don't call WA the nanny state for nothing!
Yep here we don't have first second or third in junior races, everyone gets a ribbon that says I ran a race, in team sports no winners or looser until the kids are 10 and in BMX all sprockets, 2-8 year olds every rider gets a medal/trophy. These are rules set up by the government and if you get funding eg Smarter than smoking you must play by their rules!

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really? 😮

we are a bit backward here,  the kids get place ribbons, the littlies in younger grades get a participation ribbon. By grade 3, they get a place or nothing! lol

[lealta]

there is a difference now. there have NEVER been computers and mobile phones before.

I'm not quite sure what you're getting at.  In my parents childhood years there was no such thing as television.  In my childhood years there was no internet and no one had cell phones where they had the internet at the tips of their hands.  In my grandparents childhood years, they didn't have a telephone and many people didn't have electricity.  In my great-grandparents childhood years, they didn't have cars. 

With each generation we have the elders saying how lazy and no good the younger generation is.  This is nothing new.  I honestly don't think kids are any more disrespectful or misbehaved today, than they were in my generation.  I think we have a bright future with the next generation.  They will give us discoveries that we never could have dreamed of having when we were children.