If you haven't seen this video yet, you are lucky. How has our society disolved this much?
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That's todays kids. I see it every day. I have had kids speak to me so disrespectfully. It's hard to believe but those kids who get away with talking like that to other adults do it to their own parents and their parents let them, no discipline. My kids would NEVER have talked to an adult like that no matter what they thought of them, they have always been very polite. They may fuss later but never ever to another adults face.
TxDeb, what do you think causes children to act this way?
Do the parents lack parenting skills? Are they too lazy to teach their child manners? Do kids act like this because of their peer group and in spite of their parents doing their best?
I don't get it. I would never have allowed my children to behave like this.
I do know that parents are truly busy all the time between jobs, kids and daily life. It just seems some parents are afraid to parent their kids and want to be their friend instead.
sillystring writes:
TxDeb, what do you think causes children to act this way?
Do the parents lack parenting skills? Are they too lazy to teach their child manners? Do kids act like this because of their peer group and in spite of their parents doing their best?
I don't get it. I would never have allowed my children to behave like this.
I do know that parents are truly busy all the time between jobs, kids and daily life. It just seems some parents are afraid to parent their kids and want to be their friend instead.
It's usually because the parents don't care. I make phone calls home and I can tell which parents care because the kids will come back and say "You got me in trouble, my mom took my phone, or xbox etc for a week ", yeah I did right, they can't own up to their own behavior. But the kids whose parents don't care will come back and say, "My mom just said don't do it again" . There are absolutely no consequences to their actions. Sometimes it can be peer group, but if you call home and consequences are given, the don't continue that way. And I don't mean parents need to spank their kids, but if I took stuff away from my kids or grounded them that usually worked for behavior issues. Some parents are too busy working and then when they come home they don't want to discipline their kids. Some parents don't want to have their kids mad at them. There are lots of reasons, but what they don't realize is it affects learning in the classroom, not just their kid but others.
This is why I don't want to send my kids to public school. I don't want all my hard work to go down the drain because peers in the class don't care. My just barely 2 year old say please, thank you, and yes mam! My daughter who sometimes is a handful at home never gets in trouble at her preschool and is always very polite and listens. Granted I am with my kids pretty much everyday except for the 24 hours 2 nights a week I work when they sleep.
You are right too many parents are their kids friends these days instead of their parents.
I have said this before. When parents talk disrespectfully about our President, even if they disagree with him, that is the highest office in the land, it will trickle down to principals, police, teachers, parents, etc. When I was young, we were not allowed to be disrespectul and if a teacher reprimanded us, we did not get support from our parents for our behavior. They always stuck up for the teacher, which, in some cases, the teacher was in the wrong. We were taught to respect the president and all forms of authority. We would not think of not being polite to "elders", which could be 30 years old. It starts with how the parents handle the kids. A lot of children, today, have a sense of entitlement. I have even had my daughter interrupt our conversation to defer to my 8 year old granddaughter who wanted to say something. This would NEVER have happenened in our home. I did not raise my daughter like that, either. However, table manners are not taught, either. I would have had no dinner if I licked my plate or laid on the table or the booth. It is lack of parenting skills.
Was this taken on a bus in The Woodlands? Did the kids have anything happen to them? This should be put on the news, as the school district would be held responsible for reprimanding these kids by expelling, suspending, etc. Some may be charged criminally. I have not seen this on the news, but it needs to be on MSN or CNN. Karen has amazing decorum to handle this how she did. God bless her anfi
Was this taken on a bus in The Woodlands? Did the kids have anything happen to them? This should be put on the news, as the school district would be held responsible for reprimanding these kids by expelling, suspending, etc. Some may be charged criminally. I have not seen this on the news, but it needs to be on MSN or CNN. Karen has amazing decorum to handle this how she did. God bless her anfi
sstonetx writes:
I have said this before. When parents talk disrespectfully about our President, even if they disagree with him, that is the highest office in the land, it will trickle down to principals, police, teachers, parents, etc. When I was young, we were not allowed to be disrespectul and if a teacher reprimanded us, we did not get support from our parents for our behavior. They always stuck up for the teacher, which, in some cases, the teacher was in the wrong. We were taught to respect the president and all forms of authority. We would not think of not being polite to "elders", which could be 30 years old. It starts with how the parents handle the kids. A lot of children, today, have a sense of entitlement. I have even had my daughter interrupt our conversation to defer to my 8 year old granddaughter who wanted to say something. This would NEVER have happenened in our home. I did not raise my daughter like that, either. However, table manners are not taught, either. I would have had no dinner if I licked my plate or laid on the table or the booth. It is lack of parenting skills.
Again turning everything into politics...this is why I took 2 months off of this site.
sstonetx writes:
I have said this before. When parents talk disrespectfully about our President, even if they disagree with him, that is the highest office in the land, it will trickle down to principals, police, teachers, parents, etc. When I was young, we were not allowed to be disrespectul and if a teacher reprimanded us, we did not get support from our parents for our behavior. They always stuck up for the teacher, which, in some cases, the teacher was in the wrong. We were taught to respect the president and all forms of authority. We would not think of not being polite to "elders", which could be 30 years old. It starts with how the parents handle the kids. A lot of children, today, have a sense of entitlement. I have even had my daughter interrupt our conversation to defer to my 8 year old granddaughter who wanted to say something. This would NEVER have happenened in our home. I did not raise my daughter like that, either. However, table manners are not taught, either. I would have had no dinner if I licked my plate or laid on the table or the booth. It is lack of parenting skills.
Again turning everything into politics...this is why I took 2 months off of this site.
First thing, it has NOTHING to do with the way parents talk about the President as to why kids act this way. I can tell you from being in the classroom we have discussions regarding politics you can tell whose parents hated Bush and whose parents hate Obama. This has NOTHING absolutely nothing to do with these kids behavior, again it goes back to do you make your kids respect you? do they respect others? do they respect themselves? If the talk like that to a bus monitor you can bet your bottom dollar they talk like that to their teacher and the parents do absolutely nothing about it.
The office of the president should be respected. If the man does something stupid then how can you respect that man? Yes, parents will talk about it, we talked about different politicians in our home and our kids NEVER treated a teacher like that, or another child. In fact, I got a phone call home from a teacher one time that my son stood up against some bullies to help another child.
As far as everything turning it to politics, it's gonna happen right now, it's an election year, and a lot of people are very unhappy with what has happened in the last 3-1/2 years.
Some people just put their head in the sand. If I heard a child say their parents "hated" the president, I would think that would have some negative response from children. It is the whole picture. This is not turning it into politics, merely stating the trickle down effect of disrespect in the home of all forms of authority. Some people talk this way about policemen.
DJohn, you can bellyache all you want, but, this is a discussion forum. Choose to comment or not, stay on the forum or not. You have choices and it is not up to you what is said as long as people are being respectful of others. Nothing I have said was directed towards you.
Just FYI stonetx, just because I dislike our president it doesn't mean that my kids are aware of it and we do not use the word "hate" in my house. It has nothing to do with the president but it has to do with individual parenting skills. It boils down to discipline. Parents are too lazy to discipline.
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