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Are today's kids spoiled?

What's the cause of today's bratty children?

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grip said:
Parents, more and more, don't say 'no' or discipline their kids at a very young age, so they become spoiled little monsters as teenagers.

I watched my sister raise her child with absolutely no discipline, manners and never said no. They were terrified of her outbursts. At 23 now, she's been arrested twice for road rage, agg battery, and a few other felonies. Her parents paid a fortune for her bond and when I asked my sister, "I bet you wished you had raised her different, she said no. I don't think all of today's children are raised to be brats but there's far more of it than the preceding decades. What's the cause(s)?
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He would be off to boot camp.
 
Casper said:
He would be off to boot camp.
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No, she will be off to prison if she gets another charge of any kind. She racked up like 10 felonies in two arrests already. People can bring up the past, where kids have been historically spoiled all they want, it's not relevant or comparable to today's society. Everyone knows Rome fell partially due to decadence and corruption, where I'm sure they had bad parenting skills.
 
grip said:
No, she will be off to prison if she gets another charge of any kind. She racked up like 10 felonies in two arrests already. People can bring up the past, where kids have been historically spoiled all they want, it's not relevant or comparable to today's society. Everyone knows Rome fell partially due to decadence and corruption, where I'm sure they had bad parenting skills.
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Sorry I meant my reply to the OP.
 
WCH said:
Spare the rod, spoil the child.
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beating a child has very little to do with behavior when they are out of reach of the beater
 
grip said:
Parents, more and more, don't say 'no' or discipline their kids at a very young age, so they become spoiled little monsters as teenagers.

I watched my sister raise her child with absolutely no discipline, manners and never said no. They were terrified of her outbursts. At 23 now, she's been arrested twice for road rage, agg battery, and a few other felonies. Her parents paid a fortune for her bond and when I asked my sister, "I bet you wished you had raised her different, she said no. I don't think all of today's children are raised to be brats but there's far more of it than the preceding decades. What's the cause(s)?
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Some kids get into trouble, a few into big trouble. Nothing we haven't seen since the dawn of the human race. :shrug:

I do wish that today's parents would hold kids a little more accountable without going back to authoritarianism, however.
 
grip said:
The parents were so bad at letting their kids destroy store property in my business that I would tell the kids real loud, so the unattentive mother would hear, "Mommy is going to have to pay $300 if you break that!"

Talk about making a parent control their kid fast.
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It is a shame that is necessary.
 
Mason66 said:
It is a shame that is necessary.
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My parents made us behave as kids and I don't remember it being such an onerous burden, especially when they started out doing it when we were young.
 
grip said:
My parents made us behave as kids and I don't remember it being such an onerous burden, especially when they started out doing it when we were young.
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Did you ever get a "just a second, adults are talking"? Seems it has reversed to "hold on, the kid wants something".
 
Lovebug said:
Did you ever get a "just a second, adults are talking"? Seems it has reversed to "hold on, the kid wants something".
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Not even that, because we were trained so early we automatically were quiet and well behaved when we went out. I find kids misbehavior the parent's fault for being inconsiderate, worse than someone playing with their phone when I'm right in front of them talking.
 
There were way more bratty kids when I was a kid. Kinda like everywhere you look today there are old people. If you let your kids be brats, maybe even encourage them, they will do that. Something about the Id in the kid.
 
This IMO is weird and inappropriate correction. I applaud the sentiment but not the tactic.


A mom’s Facebook post praising another woman’s parenting tactics is sparking a massive debate about disciplining young kids.

The now-viral photo, shared by Texas mom Molly Wooden, was taken inside the bathroom of a Hobby Lobby in the town of Killeen.

In the image, the other woman, who remains unidentified, can be seen standing over her son while he does push-ups as a punishment for “back talk.” It was a disciplinary move that Wooden said she fully supported.

“We need more parents like you, who aren’t afraid to parent their own children because of what someone else might think,” Wooden wrote in her post. “He said, ‘Mama, this is the bathroom floor, grossssss.’ She said, ‘Maybe you shouldn’t have been acting obnoxious. (They have soap for a reason).”
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Mom sparks debate with ‘strong’ punishment method: ‘This is a disgrace’
 
I once was at a meeting where one of the key people did not show up. He called me later and apologized. His 16 year old daughter stayed out all night. When she came home in the morning he asked her where she had been and she told him it was none of his business and she would stay out all night whenever she pleased. He said you won't be doing it in my car and told her she was grounded from the car. She became irate, grabbed the keys and ran for the car. He chased her down, pulled her out of the car and took the keys away from her. She called the cops and when they arrived she had a bruise on her arm where he pulled her out of the car so he was arrested. He had to go before a judge before he could be released from jail.

The next day, social services showed up and said they were investigating on weather or not they should put the girl in a foster home. He said you don't have to investigate, take her. After a few days she was begging to come home and promising to change her ways. She quickly found out that living in a foster home was not fun and her life at home was not so bad.
 
Kids are worse today? Really? Most of the posters here must be around my age, which means they were young during the "Hippie revolution". You do remember hippies, right? Drop out, smoke weed, free love, psychedelics. Mushrooms. Screw the man, don't trust anyone over 30. Do what you want. The hell with work. I think they called it the counter-culture. I saw a LOT of selfish brats back then, and a LOT of young people who disrespected their elders. In fact, thy despised their elders. What short memories some of you have.
 
The kids are all right.

They live in a much different time.

They'll figure it out like my generation did.
 
Mason66 said:
My girlfriends 9 year old daughter tried that once.

She said she was going to call the number.

I told her, you want to see real abuse, go ahead, call the number. Do you want me to dial it for you?

She never brought it up again.

In case you were going to ask, no she was not being abused. She didn't get something she wanted.
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She knows what it means to dial a phone?

My grandkids abuse me. They all speak the same language, "Buy Me!"
 
OldFatGuy said:
She knows what it means to dial a phone?

My grandkids abuse me. They all speak the same language, "Buy Me!"
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This was back in 1996. Different times.
 
I think the role models and goals are much different for today's youth. It seems like every girl wants to be a sex symbol. Seven year olds wearing makeup and lipstick. 13 year olds dressing like hookers. They seem to be trying to be adults way too early. Young people thinking unless you drive a BMW and make 6 figures you are a failure. Social media drives a lot of this.

It also is much costlier today. In my day, I bought a new Camero SS for $2,700. I paid 33K for my first house. Gas was 30 cents a gallon. Not only are these things more expensive today, they also have other expenses we didn't. I-phones, internet access, cable TV, on and on.

I think today's kids are more coddled and protected. We all knew kids who's drunken dad would take it out on the kids when he had a bad day. That wouldn't fly today. We hitchhiked everywhere. No one would do that today. I don't think there is more evil today but I think it is more publicized. A lot of people are afraid to even let their kids play outside. People are more aware and protective of their children. They also try to put forward a social media acceptable front. They try to hard to be accepted by their peers.
 
BahamaBob said:
I think the role models and goals are much different for today's youth. It seems like every girl wants to be a sex symbol. Seven year olds wearing makeup and lipstick. 13 year olds dressing like hookers. They seem to be trying to be adults way too early. Young people thinking unless you drive a BMW and make 6 figures you are a failure. Social media drives a lot of this.

It also is much costlier today. In my day, I bought a new Camero SS for $2,700. I paid 33K for my first house. Gas was 30 cents a gallon. Not only are these things more expensive today, they also have other expenses we didn't. I-phones, internet access, cable TV, on and on.

I think today's kids are more coddled and protected. We all knew kids who's drunken dad would take it out on the kids when he had a bad day. That wouldn't fly today. We hitchhiked everywhere. No one would do that today. I don't think there is more evil today but I think it is more publicized. A lot of people are afraid to even let their kids play outside. People are more aware and protective of their children. They also try to put forward a social media acceptable front. They try to hard to be accepted by their peers.
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The bolded above is 100% the failure of the parents. I don't understand why parents buy their young daughters tight jeans and sexy clothes. I mean 7 or 8 year old, not even teenagers.

I once told my girlfriends female cousin that she shouldn't wear make up until she was 16. She was shocked. I explained the purpose of make up is to get men to look at the girl in a sexual way.

She didn't need that before 16 and she couldn't handle the attention the make up would attract.

Now that that same cousin has her own daughter, I wonder at what age will she allow her to start wearing make up.
 
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