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<blockquote data-quote="susiestar" data-source="post: 592162" data-attributes="member: 1233"><p>I have not seen this, but I cannot help but think my whole generation somehow lost their minds when it came to raising kids. Otherwise how did we get so many awful teens running around? there are HUGE differences between teens now and teens wehn we were or when our parents were. Technology is part of it, but the rest is just giving in way too often because we feel bad that we are not the Brady Bunch or Ozzie and Harriet. I see it in so many of the teens. So many of the parents think their kids 'have' to have a car, a phone, this or that brand of x or y, and they cannot be grounded from this or that team or group because it would punish the ohter kids. So their kids NEVER learn what no means or how to cope when they dont' get their way. One girl J used to really like could be just horrible. Her mom let her older sister totally abuse her with zero consequences and at one point six of the other girls sat the MOTHER down and told her to get off her tushie and start making the older daughter stop abusing the younger one or they would call DHS and report the abuse. Hte mom called me thinking J was behind it (she wasn't and wasn't taking part mostly because it was when she was really really bad healthwise) and was really unhappy when I pointed out the signs of abuse that her daughter showed. She claimed to have tried to stop it but she couldn't take things away because they had paid for htem or the girl got so mad. She stopped talking to me after I said "So what? make your daughter work off the ocst of the things you paid for." I was 'too mean'. but it seems that so many parents are creating monsters this way and I do not understand it. I never gave a dang if the coach was upset that my kid missed practice because she was grounded. Coach could give her extra laps - all part of the consequences for acting out. IT was not MY problem that coach was upset, but the coaches wanted to make ME regret it and not my child. does not compute with me, Know what I mean?? But the other parents are almost all buffaloed by this koi. At least around here.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="susiestar, post: 592162, member: 1233"] I have not seen this, but I cannot help but think my whole generation somehow lost their minds when it came to raising kids. Otherwise how did we get so many awful teens running around? there are HUGE differences between teens now and teens wehn we were or when our parents were. Technology is part of it, but the rest is just giving in way too often because we feel bad that we are not the Brady Bunch or Ozzie and Harriet. I see it in so many of the teens. So many of the parents think their kids 'have' to have a car, a phone, this or that brand of x or y, and they cannot be grounded from this or that team or group because it would punish the ohter kids. So their kids NEVER learn what no means or how to cope when they dont' get their way. One girl J used to really like could be just horrible. Her mom let her older sister totally abuse her with zero consequences and at one point six of the other girls sat the MOTHER down and told her to get off her tushie and start making the older daughter stop abusing the younger one or they would call DHS and report the abuse. Hte mom called me thinking J was behind it (she wasn't and wasn't taking part mostly because it was when she was really really bad healthwise) and was really unhappy when I pointed out the signs of abuse that her daughter showed. She claimed to have tried to stop it but she couldn't take things away because they had paid for htem or the girl got so mad. She stopped talking to me after I said "So what? make your daughter work off the ocst of the things you paid for." I was 'too mean'. but it seems that so many parents are creating monsters this way and I do not understand it. I never gave a dang if the coach was upset that my kid missed practice because she was grounded. Coach could give her extra laps - all part of the consequences for acting out. IT was not MY problem that coach was upset, but the coaches wanted to make ME regret it and not my child. does not compute with me, Know what I mean?? But the other parents are almost all buffaloed by this koi. At least around here. [/QUOTE]
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