disobedient to parents

Yes i agree with you, i feel it might be due to wrong training they received from parents and others in home, may be due to what we call as 'generation-gap', i am happy my kids and grandkids are very much obedient to me, my wife and other members in the family. Best of luck. Professor

Children develop and adopt personality firstly with in their home. Parents should be a role model and a good preacher of values and moral lessons to their kids as well as practice it to themselves who are the most company of children. Inculcating and shaping your child with good desirable habit to show respect to parents, teachers and elders are parents responsibility!

yes, a lot of children act very rudely. most parents don't discipline their children. i'm so glad that my children can see others and know that isn't the way to act in public. telling a child no or spanking them isn't going to hurt them or even kill them. they need to know that the world doesn't cater to them and that they don't own the world. i have a nephew that acts like that. even though i love him dearly, there are times i just want to smack up the head and beat my sister. he's slowly learning that when he's with me, he behaves himself or i will punish him. he doesn't like it when i punish him and he knows i will do it. i just don't say it.

I agree with your opinion that many children are disrespectful to their parents and seniors this days. It is due to their exposure to many information on the media such as television,radio,and the internet. This is unlike in the past when children had so much respect for their elders. In Nigeria where I live, it is a common culture here that children must greet their parents or any senior that they come across but this days many kids just walk around without greeting their seniors. Today, African culture has been destroyed by western cultural value. That is why many african children now insult their senior.

Personally I think it's the parents responsibility on how to shape their children. However, caging up your kids is not a good thing as well. Balance is the way to go, reward good behavior and reprimand bad behavior, you do have to explain why it is bad behavior. In the end, children would still have to grow up and surpass their parents. If that time ever comes, respect would be earned with deeds rather asking for respect just because you raised them. I know its hard, part of the reason I don't want to have kids, but that's just my opinion. Good day!

Its because when your a parent you don't want to hurt you child by saying no or punishing them. I have 1 year and even though I hate saying "No" to her about things I know its best for her as mom. Parenting doesn't come with a handbook on how to parent your child the correct way all of use parents wish are kids did because all of them are different. Some parents don't like to try new ways of punishing there kids if one way isn't working or they aren't fallowing through. What your kids learn is from watching you and others around them. Monkey see monkey do.

I think a lot of the times some parents want to be friends with their kids instead of parents. Or they think the best way to deal with it is to give in to what they want. If I acted the way kids do these days when I was younger my butt would have been smack or my mom would drag me out of the store and I got nothing. Kids aren't punished and given luxuries too early. I mean what 6 yr old needs a cell phone or their own computer. I have seen families get 3 of the same thing so the kids wouldn't fight, but it also doesn't teach them to share. When I was younger my brother and I shared pretty much everything. That needs to happen. There is that gray line of what is child abuse and parents today are afraid to do anything I have seen that in my job. I have seen kids threaten their parents with calling CYS because they got their hand smacked for touching something they shouldn't. Parents today need to be more like parents back in the day. Parents...not friends. There is time for that when the kids get older.

A toddler or child should be taught how to be polite and considerate to others. I believe in rewards for good behavior and time out when a child does something badly wrong. This could be one minute for each year of the child's life like a 2 year old two minutes and a 6 year old six minutes. They should be taught to say 'please' and 'thank you' plus other polite words. It is helpful to count to ten inside your head when 10 years old and feeling angry. Then the child will hopefully calm down and remember to follow the rules. Each child needs clear boundaries.

I believe the number of disrespectful children are growing because their parents are not responsible enough. I firmly believe that the behavior of children reflects how their parents brought them up. So if they are disrespectful, this is because their parents did not teach them how to respect. If parents would only teach and train the child how to behave well I don't see any reason why there would misbehaving children. If children misbehaves and can't be stopped, the rod of correction should be employed. Proverbs 22:15 states "Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child, but the rod of corrections shall take it away from him." So if a child is left unpunished for misbehavior expect him to fear no one so he would be misbehaving for the rest of his life.

Yea, It also happens in my country. I'll say Movies and television in my country is responsible for that. Oldage homes are also increased because of this attitude of the children.

Haha, toddlers yell and curse at older ones. That's quick, for a toddler to enter the rebellious stage xD sorry if it's a bad joke. Well, in the oldern days, parents are very strict. Well I my country here, the Chinese are usually strict towards their kids, canning would be the punishment. Who would love canning? I don't think any kid would love the whipping sound lol. ( except masochistic people) bad joke. Though, that is in the past. In the present, parents are usually less strict and more open minded, flexible I would say. Maybe it's due to the development of the country..? Hmm, oh well, there might be those who dislike their parents for using strict lessons in the family thus , when they have a family of their own, they tend to be less strict anymore. This is because they believe that strict lessons are not effective( past experience) and they would do what they think is right. Liberty, love who knows .xD hope I helped