Are modern parents too lenient with their children?
They may be but what I think is more of an issue and possibly the reason behind being lenient is parents don’t have the strong values and principled foundation that parents and grandparents used to have. The world is changing and moving so fast, it’s hard to keep pace and people don’t know what to believe, what is important, where to set priorities. They pick the wrong battles miss the good teaching opportunities. It’s like people don’t know what to stand for and how to pass that on to their children. They don’t know how to be the good examples that really teach children how to be good people. They are too quick to take the easy way out, letting TV and DVDs teach their kids early in life what they should be by their own examples, in voice, in actions, in thoughts, in beliefs. Instead of a family working together like in the past, now we each have outside things we do separately so ‘family time’ is now only recreation and that’s not a serious enough time or long enough to teach everythi
YES YES YES IM 22YRS OLD AND I BROTHER GETS AWAY WITH EVERYTHING UNDER THE SUN. FOR EXAMPLE HES BEEN SAYING HES DOING HIS HOMEWORK AND HE HAS GOOD GRADES HES NEVER LIED BEORE SO WE BELIEVED HIM. END OF THE YAER COME AROUND THEY PAY FOR HIM TO GO TO FOOTBALL CAMP AND I BUY HIM NEW CLEETS AND THE FOOTBALL GEAR BEING PROUD HES DOING GOOD IN SCHOOL AND HES GOING TO BE PLAYING FOOTBALL. WE FIND OUT FROM THE COACH HE HAS 3D’S AND 1 F IN MATH. IM FURIOUS KNOWING HES GOING TO GET IN TROUBLE AND BE PUNISH, WRONG THEY LET HIM GO TO THE FOOTBALL CAMP THEY SAY BECAUSE ITS PAID FOR I SAY SO. HE COMES BACK GOES TO SUMMER SCHOOL FOR ONLY ONE CLASS. AND AFTER THAT THEY LET HIMWATCH TV AND TALK ON THE PHONE HE JUST CANT GO ANY WHERE. ALL THERE TECHING HIM TO BE IS FAT AND LAZY…I WOULD HAVE GROUNDED HIM AND THAT CONSIST OF: NO TV,NO PHONE,NO MUSIC, NO CAMP HE WOULD HAVE GOT A WEEEKEND JOB TO PAYBACK THE COST OF THE FOOTNALL CAMP,HE WOULD HAVE STARTED SUMMER SCHOOL EARLY MAKING IT POSSIBLE FOR HIMTO TA
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