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<blockquote data-quote="susiestar" data-source="post: 368972" data-attributes="member: 1233"><p>Premature affluence is one way to describe it. I think it goes deeper than that. I cannot count the number of parents who honestly believe that there is no reason a child should not be able to do all the things the parents can, at least at home. Many have said that they let their toddlers have coke or Mt Dew because the parents have it. That they cannot tell the child that something is for adults only. It covers not just food or drinks, but the entire way the child is raised. My kids have had friends who were allowed to do crazy things. One of Jessie's classmates used to brag about driving. At 10 years old! The parents said he was big enough to reach the petals and he wanted to, so they let him. Of course he ended up in a major wreck on their property. They were lucky that he was not on a main road. He did NOT stay on their property and they had no idea because they let him take a vehicle out anytime he wanted. This is from the PARENTS. Not from the kid bragging. The parents actually asked why they wouldn't, or shouldn't let him drive. They were allowed to, after all.</p><p></p><p>That is probably the most outrageous example, but there are myriad others I could name. I just cannot understand why kids should get everything adults get, or why some parents cannot say that something is for adults and the kids cannot have it until they are adults. it is a fairly pervasive attitude, at least where we live.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="susiestar, post: 368972, member: 1233"] Premature affluence is one way to describe it. I think it goes deeper than that. I cannot count the number of parents who honestly believe that there is no reason a child should not be able to do all the things the parents can, at least at home. Many have said that they let their toddlers have coke or Mt Dew because the parents have it. That they cannot tell the child that something is for adults only. It covers not just food or drinks, but the entire way the child is raised. My kids have had friends who were allowed to do crazy things. One of Jessie's classmates used to brag about driving. At 10 years old! The parents said he was big enough to reach the petals and he wanted to, so they let him. Of course he ended up in a major wreck on their property. They were lucky that he was not on a main road. He did NOT stay on their property and they had no idea because they let him take a vehicle out anytime he wanted. This is from the PARENTS. Not from the kid bragging. The parents actually asked why they wouldn't, or shouldn't let him drive. They were allowed to, after all. That is probably the most outrageous example, but there are myriad others I could name. I just cannot understand why kids should get everything adults get, or why some parents cannot say that something is for adults and the kids cannot have it until they are adults. it is a fairly pervasive attitude, at least where we live. [/QUOTE]
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