Reasonable on 19 March 2008
| Gamerace said: I blame two things mainly but it's not that cut and dry... 1) Dr. Spock - Actually, not the good Dr. himself, he wrote a book that became an entire generations bible on child rearing. Unfortunately they took his teachings too far. We went from kids had no rights 'Be seen not heard' to all rights and no discipline prompting Dr.Spock to write another book saying so but that one was ignored. 2) Working parents. Nowadays both parents working is commonplace and that far too often leaves the kids at daycare or babysitters. Those places may be paid to look after the kids but can not be expected to RAISE the kids. That's the parents job and they are not around to do it. Worse, to compensate they often are too lenient and/or buy the kids whatever they want. Other factors include too many single parents, men especially not fulfilling their roles as parents, society having a warped image of what's appropriate (compared to the rest of the world) as far as disciplining children, people waiting until late in life to have kids - resulting in common single kid families and single kids are usually pretty spoiled, todays media especially music (but isn't that always blamed every generation?) and extremely poor role models like Paris Hilton, a lot of rap singers, etc. |
Poor old Paris... mind you she is a pretty terrible role model as you say. And she's filthy rich through no effort of her own... let's pin something else on her too.
Try to be reasonable... its easier than you think...
