Middle School Culture Shock

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Anonymous wrote:I mean, this kind of stuff is developmentally normal and appropriate. Kids pushing boundaries. Take as old as time.

Except now we live in a wildly different world and everything is x100 on steriods. You can compare smoking weed and looking a playboy magazines with the world of today.

Every generation feels everything is x100, when really its just wildly different than when you were a kid. Which doesn’t really matter because its completely the world your kids have always grown up in. The sooner adults adjust the better off kids. If parents 1) realize they need to monitor screen time, 2)actually parent instead of trying to keep up with their neighbors and 3) stop believing “my kid would never” and realize oh yes your kid would, kids will be just fine.

+1, except it seems like this generation of parents would rather make excuses than step up and parent. Parents always faced issues but the issues have changed over time. Kids behave this way when they are allowed to. You still need to supervise and support your kids. You need to monitor everything. And, trust but verify. Things aren't that different. The only difference is electronics so some forms of bullying and other things are far worse but many things really haven't changed as much as people say.

Nah, human nature hasn't changed, and that applies to parents too.

Agree but parenting is a bit different now with more access to stuff. But, that stuff for us is great as it’s an easy punishment. Parents still need to parent and if you choose not to, don’t complain as you are the problem.

[Anonymous]

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Agree but parenting is a bit different now with more access to stuff. But, that stuff for us is great as it’s an easy punishment. Parents still need to parent and if you choose not to, don’t complain as you are the problem.

I mean, yes, being a parent now (whenever "now" is) is always different from being a parent in the past, because now is always different from the past. But the idea that parents have suddenly become awful compared to parents in the past? That's just as silly as the idea that kids have suddenly become awful compared to kids in the past.