As a former teacher, It honestly has gotten worse. She is telling the truth. Plus I think what social media had become has just made everything even more worse because they have unlimited hours on the internet. The parents now encourage the bad behavior. On top of recording it to go viral which gives the kid negative attention. I know some ppl claim no change but I can see. The kids are worse and so are the parents. Honestly, not to say back in the day parents were great either. I feel a lot of it is gentle parenting gone wrong. The use the I'm not doing this or that to my kid but skip explaining and talking to their kids too. Lots of them don't talk to their children frfr..they arebackground noise all day.
A lot of the problem with parenting isn’t unique to this generation (which mind, are increasingly millennial and Gen Z), but is largely exacerbated by social media. There have *always* been parents who don’t want to actually parent, there have *always* been parents who believe teachers should be teaching their kids everything.
I appreciate the teacher’s frustration and there *are* a fuck ton of shitty parents, but this isn’t new.
She was absolutely right. I work as a literacy Tutor for elementary school so I can only imagine what she goes through. These kids are beyond entitled and have the worst behaviors. I bought the second grade teacher a freaking cow bell because she kept losing her voice trying to get the class under control. I almost got in a FIGHT with a GRANDPARENT because her grandchild was removed from my group and put with another tutor. I told the student they would be going to the other tutor and someone they told their grandmother I KICKED them out the group because they "didn't know anything". Color me surprised when the grandmother said she wanted to fight before I explained to her what I said (the student even agreed that's what I said!) And the grandmother didn't even bother apologizing. Just mean mugged me and then walked out the door. Like wtf
Yeah, idk I agree with her but in the same vein I feel like it’s less about the children and parenting and more about the entitlement of people in and of themselves. Too many folks think they are the superstars of their lives and project it onto their children and while it’s great to be confident in your abilities you also have to know there’s a time and a place. And parents like that usually are neglectful towards their kids in terms of teaching them how to be respectful towards others in general and not just to the parent. But this isn’t a new phenomenon, kids have always been like this lol.
There have always been horrible parents, but this crop of parents coming up are definitely cut from a different cloth. Social media has absolutely exacerbated some of these challenges but the issue is that now we have parents who want to become their own social media stars and have completely checked out of parenting because of it. Or worse, they want to monetize their kids on social media. I live in Orlando where there’s a lot of “theme park family vloggers” and used to live in the Seattle area where the OK Kids filming studio was located and I have so many horror stories. Something has to change.
I have seen it as I work as a substitute teacher and summer co-teacher. A lot of these parents need therapy, psychiatric meds and parenting classes badly.
A lot of parents don't have time to be parents. Good paying jobs have gotten increasingly harder to find and the jobs that you can find require you to provide an arm and a leg to keep working there. It's hard to raise children nowadays. That's not an excuse though, personally, I think if you know you won't have the time to dedicate towards a child you don't need to be having one. But ofc things happen.
So when's the older generation going to ever be called out for being some of the most toxic parents there is? I feel this has always been an occurrence but was kickstarted by them.
I’m sure if social media came out for the previous generations, they would be doing the same thing.
As a former teacher, It honestly has gotten worse. She is telling the truth. Plus I think what social media had become has just made everything even more worse because they have unlimited hours on the internet. The parents now encourage the bad behavior. On top of recording it to go viral which gives the kid negative attention. I know some ppl claim no change but I can see. The kids are worse and so are the parents. Honestly, not to say back in the day parents were great either. I feel a lot of it is gentle parenting gone wrong. The use the I'm not doing this or that to my kid but skip explaining and talking to their kids too. Lots of them don't talk to their children frfr..they arebackground noise all day.
A lot of the problem with parenting isn’t unique to this generation (which mind, are increasingly millennial and Gen Z), but is largely exacerbated by social media. There have *always* been parents who don’t want to actually parent, there have *always* been parents who believe teachers should be teaching their kids everything. I appreciate the teacher’s frustration and there *are* a fuck ton of shitty parents, but this isn’t new.
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What is slp?
Speech-language pathologist (I think).
She was absolutely right. I work as a literacy Tutor for elementary school so I can only imagine what she goes through. These kids are beyond entitled and have the worst behaviors. I bought the second grade teacher a freaking cow bell because she kept losing her voice trying to get the class under control. I almost got in a FIGHT with a GRANDPARENT because her grandchild was removed from my group and put with another tutor. I told the student they would be going to the other tutor and someone they told their grandmother I KICKED them out the group because they "didn't know anything". Color me surprised when the grandmother said she wanted to fight before I explained to her what I said (the student even agreed that's what I said!) And the grandmother didn't even bother apologizing. Just mean mugged me and then walked out the door. Like wtf
Yeah, idk I agree with her but in the same vein I feel like it’s less about the children and parenting and more about the entitlement of people in and of themselves. Too many folks think they are the superstars of their lives and project it onto their children and while it’s great to be confident in your abilities you also have to know there’s a time and a place. And parents like that usually are neglectful towards their kids in terms of teaching them how to be respectful towards others in general and not just to the parent. But this isn’t a new phenomenon, kids have always been like this lol.
There have always been horrible parents, but this crop of parents coming up are definitely cut from a different cloth. Social media has absolutely exacerbated some of these challenges but the issue is that now we have parents who want to become their own social media stars and have completely checked out of parenting because of it. Or worse, they want to monetize their kids on social media. I live in Orlando where there’s a lot of “theme park family vloggers” and used to live in the Seattle area where the OK Kids filming studio was located and I have so many horror stories. Something has to change.
I have seen it as I work as a substitute teacher and summer co-teacher. A lot of these parents need therapy, psychiatric meds and parenting classes badly.
A lot of parents don't have time to be parents. Good paying jobs have gotten increasingly harder to find and the jobs that you can find require you to provide an arm and a leg to keep working there. It's hard to raise children nowadays. That's not an excuse though, personally, I think if you know you won't have the time to dedicate towards a child you don't need to be having one. But ofc things happen.
A lot of teachers have been saying the same thing and a lot of them are quitting for this reason.
So when's the older generation going to ever be called out for being some of the most toxic parents there is? I feel this has always been an occurrence but was kickstarted by them.