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bogarde73

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Parents under siege
Jan 3^rd, 2016 at 7:05am

A generation used to being given everything they want are in some cases turning violent when they don't get instant gratification.

Double income, "time poor" parents who have chosen to lavish everything on their kids from an early age are seeing the results of never saying no as they become teenagers.

A girl who has lost her phone screams at her father "buy me a new phone, I'll tear the house down, I'll kill myself". In some cases parents have been threatened with knives, police have been called, all over denial of instant gratification.

A lot of problems are further fueled by kids seeing on Facebook what their friends are getting - expensive clothes & devices, overseas trips.

Read more in SMH.

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Re: Parents under siege
Reply #1 - Jan 3^rd, 2016 at 7:15am

you said the words boges..

BOTH PARENTS WORKING FULL TIME.

they hand their kids over to strangers from a very early age to more or less bring them up.. if you work out the hours.. that stranger spends more time with those children than the parents..

the parents make up for it.. by buying anything and everything...

as you will remember if you broke something or lost it it was never replaced......you learnt from that, you learnt to look after even cherish what you had...

today they learn from very early... it everything including people are replaceable...

if they go to school and really like their teacher/carer...then she leaves... she is soon replaced...

simple really...

why would you ever miss something that is so replaceable....

mum and dad are always in a hurry and the kids soon learn they can blackmail them with a long face....

I want it and I want it NOW...

no waiting for birthday or Xmas anymore....

in fact mums and dads struggle to know what to give their little darlings for those special occasions..

kids are sad today...

.we have stolen all the joy of the surprise the waiting the anticipation the excitement....

that all makes up a childhood..

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Re: Parents under siege
Reply #2 - Jan 3^rd, 2016 at 7:26am

"The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for
authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place
of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their
households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They
contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties
at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers."

Attributed to Socrates by Plato.

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bogarde73 Gold Member Offline Anti-Global & Contra Mundum Posts: 18443 Gender:	Re: Parents under siege Reply #3 - Jan 3^rd, 2016 at 7:57am I used to have a print of that on my office wall at one time. Maybe things haven't changed since Socrates' time but I reckon they've changed in the last couple of generations, not with every family of course.
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John Smith Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 78311 Gender:	Re: Parents under siege Reply #4 - Jan 3^rd, 2016 at 9:23am it's nothing that a clip across the ear won't fix if my 6 year old demands I get him something and has a tantrum about it after I say no, I take away something else he already has. Funnily enough, he doesn't demand I buy him an awful lot of stuff anymore
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Maqqa Gold Member Offline 14% - that low?! Posts: 16000	Re: Parents under siege Reply #5 - Jan 3^rd, 2016 at 11:26am google the AFFLUENZA
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Re: Parents under siege
Reply #6 - Jan 3^rd, 2016 at 11:39am

bogarde73 wrote on Jan 3^rd, 2016 at 7:05am:

A generation used to being given everything they want are in some cases turning violent when they don't get instant gratification.

Double income, "time poor" parents who have chosen to lavish everything on their kids from an early age are seeing the results of never saying no as they become teenagers.

A girl who has lost her phone screams at her father "buy me a new phone, I'll tear the house down, I'll kill myself". In some cases parents have been threatened with knives, police have been called, all over denial of instant gratification.

A lot of problems are further fueled by kids seeing on Facebook what their friends are getting - expensive clothes & devices, overseas trips.

Read more in SMH.

Problem solved. Maqqa will retire to the wood shed and return with a FATWA against child self gratification.

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