Thread: No wonder the younger generations cop flack...

Originally Posted by SIImad

Are we now getting into fetishes?......I'll be in on that! Stretch me, stretch me!

When you graduate from high school, what uni are you hoping will accept you? All the best, Bob

Originally Posted by SIImad

Are we now getting into fetishes?......I'll be in on that! Stretch me, stretch me!

Hmmmm Fetishes,

Too much.....

Yes too much!

Originally Posted by bob10

When you graduate from high school, what uni are you hoping will accept you? All the best, Bob

Life is way too short to be taken seriously, I counsel those who are left behind after suicide, grief stricken spouses, and the terminally ill, so I just laugh all day long!

Hope this helps with your question,

Warm regards,

AJ.

It is at this point I'd like to point out a few things:

Bob, believe it or not parents can be excellent parents and NOT know about issues their children are having. That's the nature of kids. And teenagers. And young adults.
However I disagree that this....thing's.......parents couldn't have known. Or if they did, their heads are just as vacuous as hers is.

There's also a difference between what's correct and works, and what's deserved. No doubt an appropriate course could help little miss sunshine see the error of her ways. She deserves a good smack. The two are different

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I have edited a couple of posts

Please remember guys that this is a G rated forum.
Talking like you are is stepping over the line please keep it clean

Originally Posted by benji

You havn't heard of patenting? We've put perpetual motion patents in for our second child - he's patent pending

This has nothing to do with social skills- it's about respect. My parents disciplined me properly as a child - consequently I have a social disorder too, called 'respect for others'.

16 years as a youth leader tells me that without proper discipline as a child an adult cannot discipline themselves.

I agree 100%

Originally Posted by bob10

The frightening thing is, I think you really believe that. Bob

Originally Posted by bob10

When you graduate from high school, what uni are you hoping will accept you? All the best, Bob

A bit rude and below your standard Bob.
In this case I think a trained psychologist is more qualified than a seafaring retired postman. I have no problem with people disagreeing, but show some respect for other points of view. A different opinion does not make an enemy.

It may have been true a generation or two ago that bad parenting could be identified as the major reason for a child's misbehaviour.

Assuming that parents are still overwhelmingly the most powerful influence on a child ignores the changes that society has undergone in the last few decades.

There are now so many other influences on a child that it is entirely possible for good parents to have badly behaved children.

In my lifetime I have had direct contact with thousands or more likely tens of thousands of children. While it is generally true that good children have good parents, I have seen problem children from families with exemplary parents and siblings. I have also seen very reliable, responsible children whose parents were irresponsible and whose siblings were troublemakers.

Of course good parenting is important. Of course it is more likely to produce a well behaved child than bad parenting.

However it is simply not true that 100% of the credit or blame for a child's personality can be laid at the feet of the parents. Such a view shows a lack of understanding of the way the world has changed and of just how powerful influences from outside the family have become.