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Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington
That is a fine observation....except, children and young adults today are nothing like they were when I was a child. I would not have dreamed of questioning a teacher, or refusing to do what I was told by a person in authority.
they are influenced by many more things than their parents(TV. media, internet).......and while we are about it, it does seem that parents have few rights over their children......social services can intervene and stop parents from doing what they(the parents) feel is morally right if the child disagrees with it.
Parenting is the hardest job in the world......there is no handbook and the job description doesn't fit every child.
The other observation I would like to make, is that the poor parents have feral children who influence the children of stricter/fairer/better parent....the parents who insist that their child attends school, does their homework, tidies their room, acts responsibly.
somehow the parents of feral children are seen as 'cool' rather than being proper parents.
Stop knocking parents.
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I agree with most of what you say Margaret, I nearly always do
but there are some very bad parents knocking about, mind you there was when we were young too, funnily though lots of kids that grew up have bad parents have made upstanding citizens, but also some haven't
