ChaoticMusings

Syl · FIRM BUT FAIR.

Why have parents lost control of their children?

Syl · FIRM BUT FAIR.

Should parents really have to be told this isn't normal behaviour for young kids?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-67993618

Digger · Admin

In a world where we have kids being sent to school in nappies, with rotting teeth, and obesity.... Er, no, this doesn't surprise me.

Date: Jan 27 1:37 PM, 2024

i don't think parents have ever had full control of their kids. Yes as you say these days much of it is around internet use, but go back to pre-internet days, say to the 70s and beyond, when kids were out in the streets and fields and woods without parents knowing what they were up to. it's not a modern-day phenomenon.

Syl · FIRM BUT FAIR.

Anonymous wrote:
i don't think parents have ever had full control of their kids. Yes as you say these days much of it is around internet use, but go back to pre-internet days, say to the 70s and beyond, when kids were out in the streets and fields and woods without parents knowing what they were up to. it's not a modern-day phenomenon.

You have to give kids freedom in order for them to grow, but allowing 8-year-olds the freedom to purchase expensive face creams online is the wrong kind of freedom.

Syl · FIRM BUT FAIR.

Digger wrote:
In a world where we have kids being sent to school in nappies, with rotting teeth, and obesity.... Er, no, this doesn't surprise me.

Some primary schools have sunk so low now in the last 20 or 30 years, it's like going back to the dark ages.

The primary school my son attended was considered ' Outstanding' when inspected by Ofsted.

Now, many of the children that attend cant speak English, cant tie a shoelace, are not properly toilet trained, the teachers spend half the time nannying rather than teaching.

Obviously the school no longer gets the same grade.

Magica · Go Outside

Syl wrote:
Digger wrote:
In a world where we have kids being sent to school in nappies, with rotting teeth, and obesity.... Er, no, this doesn't surprise me.
Some primary schools have sunk so low now in the last 20 or 30 years, it's like going back to the dark ages.
The primary school my son attended was considered ' Outstanding' when inspected by Ofsted.
Now, many of the children that attend cant speak English, cant tie a shoelace, are not properly toilet trained, the teachers spend half the time nannying rather than teaching.
Obviously the school no longer gets the same grade.

Discipline was taken away from schools. Teachers have a job keeping control of classes now. Kids do as they like, knowing they can get away with.it. Lots of kids have behaviour problems, autism etc, which make it difficult for other kids. Even though they have one to one, they're behaviour disrupts the class. Add those who can't speak English, it keeps other children back in the class who don't get the proper lesson time spent on them, so they can suffer.

jackthelad · Musing at the Chaos

Syl wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
i don't think parents have ever had full control of their kids. Yes as you say these days much of it is around internet use, but go back to pre-internet days, say to the 70s and beyond, when kids were out in the streets and fields and woods without parents knowing what they were up to. it's not a modern-day phenomenon.
You have to give kids freedom in order for them to grow, but allowing 8-year-olds the freedom to purchase expensive face creams online is the wrong kind of freedom.

8 year olds shouldn't be able to purchase anything online!

I don't think the kids in my life around that age can purchase anything anywhere beyond the school tuckshop.

-- Edited by jackthelad on Sunday 28th of January 2024 01:11:12 AM

SF · Getting Gobby

Moany old sods !

Syl · FIRM BUT FAIR.

SF wrote:
Moany old sods !

Q. Do you ever contribute with a valid comment to any discussion?

A. You don't actually....so you are on a warning, either add something of interest, keep quiet, or we can help you leave....your choice.