why have parents gone so laidback, allows kids to do watever they like wheres discipline gone?

Answer 1

I think the sad reality is that many parents equate freedom and allowing kids to have so much freedom with loving them. As a parent coach most parents really believe they cant instill disipline without being hard. it is possible.

Gramps

Answer 2

In the good old days its only the father who worked while mom minded the house.It was only during World War 2 that many ladies were employed as the men had to be at war and the administration had to go on.

After the war the ladies kept on working and so both parents were employed.In the past when the kid came home from school the mom was there to guide and monitor the growing up child and then enforce certain disciplines in those growing up ages.But now mainly with both parents working the children come home to an empty home and do what they want with no parental guidance.They also join other kids and sometimes come under bad influence since there is no mum to monitor them.In other words the children sometimes "grow wild" without the caring of a loving mother.

Nowadays when the parents come home late in the evening they are fatigued and they have to do the normal household chores and have no time for the children.There are instances where the parents only have contact with the kids on the weekend since some of them work late hours to keep the home fires burning..Or otherwise the kids are in a day care centre,but it can never replace the love and affection between a mother and child.

Answer 3

because its easier AT THE MOMENT!!! they don't realize the difficulties kids without boundaries have when they get older. another reason is that there are soooo many young parents out there who think their parents were too strick and are still under the impression that a child should be allowed to do as they please like they wanted to. and once you get into the habit of not disciplining your kids, it becomes harder on both the parents and the kids to have discipline later on. its a vicious cycle that ultimately passes down in each generation.

added: it doesn't mean that the parents are bad people, it just means they need more education about how to be a parent rather than a friend. its a very difficult task and if a person hasn't been taught good parenting skills by their parents then its even more difficult to understand the necessity of discipline or how and what is proper discipline.

Answer 4

Depends where you are, but in the UK it started to disappear when they told the police they were no longer allowed to give young hooligans a boot up the a*se or a clip round the ear.
Now if they try to arest someone there is more chance the policemman gets investigated for "unreasonable force" than the criminal being charged with "resisting arrest" or "assaulting a police officer"
Also parents today are AFRAID to be strict with kids as "all their mates are allowed to do it"

Persoanlly I was brought up to respecxt authority in most forms, and hope any child of mine would be the same . . . but the world changes . . .

Answer 5

I think it has to do with the fact that both parents work really hard, that they were afraid when the kids were younger because society tells them that you cant yell at your kids you cant slap your kids hand when they need it so I think alot of parents are at a loss as to what to do with their kids. It only gets worse as the child gets older

Answer 6

I wonder that as well.

I think it goes hand in hand with lots of women having to raise children without a father, teen pregnancy, and the "anti-spanking movement", among other things.

Answer 7

laziness
if you cant handle being a parent
dont have unprotected sex and then look to say oh golly me they are just kids let them have their own way yeah whatever

Answer 8

They work too hard nowadays to provide for these lousy kids, so they don't have enough time to pay attention to them.

Answer 9

They are worried about being there childrens freind's v's there childrens parents.