Spoiled Rotten Kids: Taking Control Temper tantrums, crying fits, violent outbursts — why are our kids out of control? FNC investigates how permissive and absentee parenting is at the root of a problem generation. Plus, learn the devastating results of a childhood lacking nurture and limits. Tune in Sunday, October 10 at 9pm and midnight ET
This should be an interesting show but I wonder if anyone really wants to face the facts?
A) Parents have been stripped of their power to deliver corporal punishment.
B) Police won’t do anything until the kid actually does something
C) No one has the guts to discipline their children properly. It is not easy to discipline your kids and take away the things they wan’t to do, perhaps even loose an opportunity to do something they have never done… but it seems in this day and age all parents do is foster a sense of entitlement in their children and then bitch and complain when their kids get into trouble.
I remember seeing a program about obese kids and the parents saying i just cant stop him from eating.. HELLOOOOOO the fucking kid is 9 years old.. how fucking hard can it be to stop them from eating at mcdonalds 5 times a day and bags of potato chips and chocolate?? THEY DONT EARN MONEY!!! So the only way they are getting this shit is because the god damn stupid waste of space single neuron firing parent is buying it for them!
Our society is full of people who will not take responsibility for their own actions.. why should we think they are raising kids any differently??
I have been a “dad” for the past year and a half to two young teenagers and I approach it in several ways but the first and foremost way is..
I am in Charge
You WILL do what I say and If You Don’t then the worlds biggest shit storm will arrive at your bedroom door.
You will LOOSE all of the little things you like and WILL have to earn them back.. oh yeah and arguing with me about it will only make it worse!
Do not engage in an argument over any order you give.
Do not make threats you will not carry out.
Do not back down.. ever.. PERIOD!
There ya go.. parenting 101
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Monday, October 11, 2004 - 12:16 am
Late Sunday . . no sleep
It’s one of those nights again. Chris has to be at the airport at 7am – so he has to get up at 4:30. I’m staying up all night to make sure he gets up. We’ve been through this before.
So I’m up all night. Drinking coffee. Working. Surfing.
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Monday, October 11, 2004 - 12:15 pm
My Mom said that when we were young, we only acted up once and that’s all it took. She spanked us and I believe in spanking. After trying to talk to a problem child, I think spanking is very effective.
Thursday, October 14, 2004 - 2:43 pm
I agree with practically everything you have said, I too became the ‘Dad’ of a 12 year old and I must say that even more so than with your own kids ( I have 3 of them too) you do have to present a fairly unbending front when it comes to being the boss. Kids, whatever age, will push their parents to find out the limits of what they can get away with, even more so when you are not their “Real Dad”. However I also found out that I had to adapt to my daughter every bit as much as she had to adapt me, some of the things I thought were unacceptable to start with turned out to be something I could live with. Those first two years were extremely tough but once I started to relax a little about some of the little things that really were not so important things got much better.
As far as smacking goes, I am all for it, my sister does not smack her kids but she she can reduce her kids to tears with a look, that while not physically hurting them seems to me to do untold psychological damage, worse still are those that don’t take the responcibility of parenting seriously enough to dicipline one way or another.
Good luck with the children, I am very proud of my daughter and she is a credit to her mother and me.