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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I was in a restaurant where the parents were letting their kids roam and run.  Twice two different waiters asked them to return to their seats so they didn't get stepped or spilled on.  Finally the manager (I believe) asked the parents to reign them in.  Their response?  We don't believe in saying "no" as we like to let them self-regulate.  WTF kind of nonsense BS is that?  3-6 year olds can't self-regulate!  He told them the kids would need to remain seated or they'd need to leave as it was a hazard.  The mom literally went to the kids and said, "that man says you must sit in your seats, so let's go.  Tell him you're upset with this not me!"

[b]I have a friend who is an ES school teacher and she said most kids today have never heard "no."  [/b]They also talk back much more than kids did years ago, according to her.  They've been brought up to think they're the best and most important.  [/quote]

This is such BS.  Of course most kids have heard "no".  Your friend is, like members of every generation before her, someone who likes to be crotchety about the next generation.  Our parents' generation thought we were spoiled brats, their parents thought they were spoiled brats. The first kids who got to live in a house instead of a cave were spoiled brats. There have always been some terrible parents. There always will be.  Honestly, I'd be more inclined to argue that kids of yesteryear were more inclined to be little shits. Think about it: this concept of obsessive parenting is fairly new. 50 years ago, parents didn't give a shit about parenting or teaching lessons.  They cared about kids surviving.  Sure, that meant yelling "no" more to make sure your kid didn't do something that killed them. But when you had people living in one-room thatch homes with 6 kids, manning the fields for their very survival, do you think anyone was actively teaching their kids manners?  Sure, there was an upper class contingency in Victorian times that would have stressed this. But that wouldn't have been the norm. Stop romanticizing the past.  [/quote]

My friend who is a teacher is 35, not 55.  She's at a private school now and likes it much more than when she was at a public school.  The public school kids were total nightmares, according to her.  Very entitled, talked back, and threw tantrums when told no.  She said she'd expect the opposite when comparing public vs. private school.  They have classroom iPads and when iPad time was over, she had a boy (10 year old), smack her with her iPad because he didn't want to stop using it.  When he was sent to the Principal and his mom was contacted, her response was, "that's why we don't let him have screen time at home."

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