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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Teacher here: most kids lack good families to raise them…this is the result. [/quote]

So are millennial/Gen-X parents just really poor parents compared to their boomer parents?  Is that really what it comes down to?  I just don't recall my friends parents being super-involved in the 80s either, there were lots of latchkey kids. But the vast majority weren't going apesh-t at school.[/quote]

We aren't worse than Boomers were, it's just that the impacts of where we go wrong really show up in the school environment. Authoritarian parenting works great for classroom control, permissive parenting is terrible for it.

I started having kids before the "gentle Parenting" thing and really try to be authoritative, but I have had problems with how my parenting translates to the classroom. For instance, I have no problem with my kids pushing back against something I say if they do it respectfully. But that doesn't work in the classroom! I had to explain to my kids that even if they think the teacher is being unfair they cannot push back against what the teacher says, regardless of how respectfully they do it.

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