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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think he's right. It starts at home. And it's not about poverty. The only thing money gets you is the ability to buy yourself out of punishment for your crimes.
We have now 2 generations of people being raised to be entirely self absorbed and that the rules don't apply to them. Just take a look at the other threads in this form a good chunk are about how to get my kid out of xyz, my kid shouldn't have to do this because xyz. Unending selfishness[/quote]

My unpopular opinion is that the current trend for society to condone - not just accept, but actively condone - individual's decisions on how they live their lives is resulting in a lack of social norms. Without some semblance of community, the individual feels free to do whatever they want without concern of judgement or punishment. Sometimes that fear is what keeps people doing the right thing.

And I'm not talking about LGTQ+ rights, before people start yelling at me. I'm talking about the fact that social media feeds this mentality that anything mainstream is to be rejected, but we know that some of those mainstream ideas work for a healthy society, like two parent households, jobs for income, respect for teachers/school, respect for community leaders, etc.  At some point, what's good for the individual has to be secondary to what's good for the majority and that's okay.[/quote]

Agree that the pendulum has swung too far. It's not just hurting society it's hurting kids.

Maybe parenting classes need to happen in school as part of a life skills curriculum. [/quote]

I agree with both of you.

The pendulum has swung way too far, and adding social media has just made the whole thing a toxic, confusing, disaster for our kids.[/quote]

Yep. The number of parents I know who are not happy with what their teens are doing but don't feel like they can do anything about it...yet pay for everything never cease to amaze me. [/quote]

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