Spoiled Children
By cfrdjlilbrat
@cfrdjlilbrat (248)
United States
February 7, 2007 10:35pm CST
Do you think children are too spoiled these days? Everywhere i go it seems there are children misbehaving... screaming, pitching temper tantrums to get their own way in everything and the parents giving in to shut them up. If my children did that when they were small, their behinds were a little bit sore afterwards. i told them, "you embarrass me in public and i will embarrass you" and it didn't take but once or twice to make believers out of them. Last time i checked, i was the parent and i felt it was my duty to teach my children to respect authority, starting with mine, as well as, teaching them manners and appropriate behavior. Was i wrong?
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5 responses
@kpfingaz (1027)
• Saint Vincent And The Grenadines
9 Feb 07
Yes they are too dam spoiled and I am not surprised. Why? Because of the way I see some adults behaving and I sometimes wonder if they have children. Not gonna write a long one here - children needs to be disciplined and parents should re-evaluate their roles and do their jobs as parents and stop complaining. You seem to have done a great job - let them know who is parent and have them respect you and they will respect others.
@cfrdjlilbrat (248)
• United States
11 Feb 07
i think that respect is the key to everything. Teach a child to respect others and you will have an adult who does so.
@LightninStrike (5915)
• Saint Vincent And The Grenadines
8 Feb 07
Kids nowadays are bought with things. We give them things so that we can make them be calm and not bother us too much in the little time we spend at home, since we're out working all day long.
Nowadays authority is losing it's sense. Kids are not ready to get a no as a reply anymore..they are not emotionally educated to face NO, and that leads to agressivity and emotional disorders...people that then become adults who cannot face the fact that they cannot get all they want.
We are creating selfish individualist and competitive beings.
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@cfrdjlilbrat (248)
• United States
11 Feb 07
It does seem as if bad behavior is rewarded these days instead of punished. What i mean is when a child is throwing a temper tantrum, most people these days will give them something to pacify them and stop the tantrum, instead of putting a hand on the child's bottom to stop it. If adults were rewarded for bad behavior, this would really be a horrid world to live in, so why reward children for it?
@mjgarcia (725)
• United States
8 Feb 07
you're not wrong at all. But now days the a lot of people are afraid to discipline their children in public because they don't want to be accused of child abuse. The biggest problem that I see are parents that threaten, or "talk" to the child until they are blue in the face - but take no action. The kids know that there are no consequences. Kids want rules and boundaries. Its our job to provide them. If they don't believe in spanking - thats fine. Find out what works and follow through. Take away priviledges or use a time out. But the kids have to know that if the misbehave the parent is going to do more than say "no. no."
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@mridula123 (734)
• India
8 Feb 07
Well..kids are kids.But parents must be parents..ur kids were just normal and so were you.Continue the good job!
@SarahLynn (76)
• United States
12 Feb 07
Well the problem is that, people think spanking is a bad thing anymore and if anyone sees you doing it in public they have the right to call the police on you if they wish, least in ohio they do....Kids now a days don't have any sort of punishment to anything they do wrong...Now myself i would rather spank my daughter in the store if she's doing something bad that deserves a spanking instead of listening to her scream and stomp and argue with me.. But thats just my opionion i guess..
