Reply to Behavior in DD's school/grade

Forum Index » Elementary School-Aged Kids

Reply to "Behavior in DD's school/grade"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think this is happening all around the country. Junk food, poor parenting.. so the kids who were “those kids” when we grew up are now considered normal kids, and the good kids (“regular kids” when we grew up) really stand out as being calm and well behaved. [/quote]

My kid's school is not as bad as what OP describes but this rings true to me. The way I parent now would have been considered super chill where I grew up back in the 80s. Because we don't hit our kids, we have some flexibility on stuff like picky eating and letting kids choose their own activities, and we aren't militant about stuff like family dinners and screen time. My parents were much stricter.

But among the families we know through school, I think we are considered very strict because we we insist on good manners and will do things like leave a playground or party if one of our kids is being rude or not playing well with others. Most of the families we know just watch their kids being jerks and will kind of casually say "Don't forget to share, Mason" while Mason is shoving kids off the slide so he can spider climb up it 40x in a row, and then turn back to their phone or conversation.[/quote]

Op here. This totally resonates. My boomer parents even tell me I’m too lax and but they just have no idea. I’m incredibly strict compared to what I’ve seen of most of her classmates’ parents. Now the parents at her activity are more on my wavelength and not surprisingly, their kids are much better behaved.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics