3 biggest areas which you think can be improved?

Question

What do you think are the 3 biggest areas in young children's (up to 6 years old) lives which can be improved? for example: toddlers toys, toddlers cutlery, etc. And please state the reason WHY you think it's not good enough at the moment. Any suggestion on how to improve it will be nice, as well. Thanks!

Answer 1

Parenting-
1) Parents have literally taken a hands off approach to parenting. A few well placed smacks on the bum when needed has never hurt anyone. Spare the rod, spoil the child. There is a time and a place for it. The "naughty" mat/chair/spot are only good for certain behavior modifications. Children are too spoiled and think they are in-charge all the time. Who makes the rules? These days, children seem to make all the rules.
2) Parents are leaving the raising of their kids (at least 8 to 12 hours a day) to other people. Daycare centers are not suitable equivalents to a parent or parents bring up their children. Parents are not spendding time with their children and over-indulging them with activities and "stuff" to make up for it. In the process they are spending even less time with their children.
3) Over-indulgence is the worst thing to come out of a two-income families. Parents feel guilty about not spending enough time with their children, so they are attempting to ease their guilt by buying more and more "junk" for their kids. These kids become spoiled rotten. The become demanding little sorts and think that they are now entitled to what ever they want, whenever they want it. This behavior extends out of the house and into other areas of the child's life. These children become the "brats" and disliked by their peers....unless of course some of the peers are getting to play with, use, or benefit from of all that "junk".

All parents need to step up and be large and in-charge. Parents need to realize that they need to be an authority figure in their kids lives....NOT the "BEST FRIEND". Kids have plenty of friends, but they only have one mom and dad. Kids need limits and boundaries, period. Kids need to know that they cannot have (and should not have) anything and everything they want. They need to be taught the value of a dollar, and what it means to WORK for it.

Answer 2

I was just thinking if it was easier to get out with your kids, and if places were more accommodating, and people were more understanding. I feel like I'm living in a world that was made by people without kids in mind. And the funny thing is that in the community I live in there are kids everywhere I go. Why are the single people designing and being in charge of everything? I don't really think we need anymore stuff for toddlers, my kids have more than enough toys, and special eating utensils, and everything like that. Almost too much that I go through it all and give half of it away every couple of years.

Answer 3

The number one thing that could be improved would be the rate of breastfeeding. If every child were given their birthright of mother's milk; It would improve every child's overall well being, decrease mortality from SIDs and breast cancer and prevent a lot of illness.

The second would be better discipline. If people stopped trying to scare kids into proper behavior and actually took the time to model and explain there would be far less child abuse and far better behaved citizens.

The third would be for parents to treat their children as individuals with human rights. Not accesorries to be cosmetically altered (yes cosmetic gential surgery is still legal for boys, but not girls?), dressed in designer fashions and stuck in a bucket with a bottle of fake milk propped into their faces, or left to scream themselves to sleep in a room alone when the parents get tired of them.

Kids don't need better "stuff" they need better nurturing.