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[quote=Anonymous]^this is the problem. Most parents don’t want to be the bad guy. They want US to be the bad guy, and actually, I am fine with that except in cases like this where I don’t have the ability to be the bad guy. I have it in writing from my admin explicitly stating DO NOT take a child’s phone. If we do, and a parent escalates, admin cannot and will not back us, which means as far as the parents want to take it, we are on our own. Nobody is dealing with that.

It’s a huge shift from even 6-7 years ago that the majority of parents I talk to now seem to truly believe that they cannot, in any way, exert influence over their children. There is a lack of understanding that active parenting did not and does not stop just because they are no longer little, it simply changed. (This is not all parents btw- the ones who get this and are actively involved in being the parent to their kids, I never have to call them, because their kids are not a problem. They’re either doing the right thing generally or, in the event they’re not, accept redirection and comply with my request to not skip class, not sleep, put the phone away, etc). But the parents I DO have to call about their kids because the behavior has gotten to that point? Generally hopeless because they don’t get that they are still supposed to be parenting these kids. [/quote]

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