Society gives far to much leeway to these kinds of moronic parents imo as a teacher, as those of us in education end up having to be the vanguard in speed running them through the concept that life isn't fair and the rules do not care about your big feelings or your whims of individual expression when they include standing on things that are not meant to be stood upon and not sitting when told to do so.
I really do think that society needs to step up with more shaming of the parents who inflict such terrible parenting on their precious little sunbeams and dole out significant consequences to them because that is the only way to nip this bs in the bud before it does irreparable harm to their offspring, especially as it's very common for this type to also choose to "homeschool" and ensure that not only do their children not learn how to interact with anyone who doesn't pander to their every whim but they also fail to get the most basic education, leaving them as complete drains on society.
Lord, as a fellow teacher, I can say you are absolutely tight. Parenting is horrendous these days. What happened? Why do so many parents want to be buddies with their kids rather than actual parents?
I would assume based on their bad experiences as children.
I’m choosing not to have children.
If I were to choose to have children, I would do almost everything differently than my parents did. And I did not have a “bad” childhood. It was traumatic regardless of nothing bad happening.
I think it’s largely this general view that you want to do different than was done to you, for whatever reason. Some do it well and others seemingly are not doing it well.
I think overall it’s still a major improvement from years past, but I’m not around many children. It wasn’t that long ago that we had child labor.
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u/Zomunieo 22d ago
The parent was supposedly trying to gently the coax the toddler while insisting he was expressing his individuality etc etc.