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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don’t disagree with you OP. But I also am annoyed with you. Some of those parents probably argued with their kids to dress better, bring a raincoat, etc. Kids probably refused. So parents decided to let them suffer the natural consequences! You completely undermined that! Let them be cold. Let them be wet. Will they die? No. And next time they’ll listen to their parents and bring a raincoat.

You totally undermined and “rescued” those kids. Bad choice. [/quote]

OP here. My daughter was fighting me about clothes the night before because she wanted to wear shorts and Crocs. I told her she would be wearing proper shoes and long pants, or she would be going to school for a regular school day and I would attend the trip as a chaperone without her. This is called parenting. There is no such thing as an 11yo “refusing” me when it comes to a special privilege like Hershey Park. [/quote]

So you raised a kid who doesn't understand how to dress themselves in middle school and now you're lecturing other people? Sounds like you did a very bad job parenting her when she was younger.[/quote]

She understands she doesn’t get to make dumb choices on important days. If she wants to shiver at the bus stop, fine. But not all day in the cold and rain. It’s called stepping in and parenting until her brain finishes developing.[/quote]

I’m a NP and I agree with this. If my kid refuses to wear sunscreen at the beach, I’m not letting them go and get a bad burn. In MS my kids would have probably put up a similar fight on the way to a long field trip and I would have made them pack something and say they can leave it on the bus. Now they’re in HS and make better choices.

I agree with the op. I’m a teacher and there’s just a lot of kids who lack resilience and whine constantly. All the “natural consequences” that parents think they’re teaching seems to only relate to clothes and weather. They’re rushing lunches and homework and violins to school constantly, but somehow they’re making their kids gritty by letting them be cold. It’s not working, they’re not resilient. [/quote]

I always wonder about posts like this- from teachers who clearly don’t like their students.[/quote]

NP. Ope, did you recognize yourself as a crappy parent? It is obvious that PP is a great teacher who cares about kids and sees that parents often do them disservices in the name of “natural consequences” and “resilience”…in a VERY pick-and-choose way.[/quote]

It is not obvious to me that the PP is a great teacher. I don’t know any great teachers who spend their precious free time trashing parents on the internet. [/quote]

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