Do you think parents and the society today are sugarcoating morals and are using the excuse "let kids be kids"

Question

and using other excuses for kids and themselves such as "it is only natural" or "it is only human" or "mistakes happen" for lack of self control and negligible behavior?

do you think they give excuses like that for their children's irresponsible behavior and are ok with it if they do get into drugs,sex or alchol during their teenage years eventually?

is that why kids easily nowadays get into drugs, alcohol and sex (become skanks, sluts and man whores) at their early teens since they are not reprimanded when they are young and think they can get away with it ?

is this a pattern of parents screwin up themselves at their young age and just ok with it when their children do it instead of standing up and stopping it?

Answer 1

hell, yeah
i totally agree with the anonymous dude.

There was a time when women were not allowed to wear elbow-revealing blouse, boys and girls in school sat in different sides of the classroom, and parents bit their children with a feather duster when they misbehaved. There was no freedom for the young rebellious minds. When this generation took over the world, the society and its ppl became more open-minded and, as they claimed, more liberated. To some extend, yes and its not a bad thing.
As the same generation became parents, they hoped for a life they couldnt have for their kids (more freedom, more toys, more opportunities etc). Thus they tend to indulge behaviors that are once unacceptable in their time and sometimes support and encourage their children blindly. The kids, spoiled and twisted, often walked onto the wrong track

Discipline should start at a very young age and it was used to be so generations ago. Parents now are so concentrated on their children's qualities such as IQ and personal skills that they forget to breed descendants with high morale and good ethics

When i was back in China last yr, i was sickened seeing couples making out in communal parks. That was the only time i had wished dogs would poop on the grass.
Blame me if i am conservative but there are some values not only i but also everyone should keep at an age in which they are fading away and desensitized

Answer 2

i sure do think so. somehow i feel only a tiny percentage of parents in this era are still instilling in their children MORAL VALUES. the rest seem to think these stuffs are old school. which i think is total bullshit. there used to be a day when parents would act like parents and CONTROL their kids. that was the time when kids are kids. these days, parents are like the kids. displaying dissaproving behaviour and expect their kids to do the same ie i saw this tv program whre parents encourage their children to be models and all their kids became such skanks and selfish ppl. stomping over their parents head and demanding this and tht. the parent however seemed like they possess no such power to halt this. its loathing. servants are breeding their masters. i think in their opinion, all these acts (sex, alcohol, drugs) are just an opportunity or freedom tht they were resricted from in their days. although im NOT stating tht ALL parents are like tht, most of em are....therefore, when they have their own kids, they just let them enjoy this 'opportunity'... it saddens me how youth have become these days. they r our future. if this carries on, our future is nothing but mega bullshit.

Answer 3

Yes they are. What happened to parents teaching their daughters to respect their bodies and teaching their sons to respect women for more then their bodies? What happened to parents teaching their kids about morals and values? It seems like in the last 100 years parents have decided to be their kids' friends instead of the parents and let their kids run all over them and the rest of society. Kids have no respect for authority or their elders anymore.

Answer 4

some things are acceptable to let slide.
but even small things i think parents need to correct kids on.
drugs,sex,alchohol is a big step up.
not all kids with pushover parents get into that.

also..
i know kids whose parents actually push them TOO hard so i think they're more so at risk of what you're saying too because the ones that i know will do anything at all to have some fun

Answer 5

my son doesn't do drugs or even smoke. The problem I have with him is just trying to get him motivated to do well in school. He has so much potential and wont even acknowledge it. Very sad. I've done all that I can to help my son. I'm starting to think it's genetic for my son to be screwing off like his dad always did. It's just not in my genes to do what my son has been doing.