When does PARENTING fail?
This is a relatively easy question.
When a teenager, who is older than his classmates, refuses to complete classwork, and chooses to walk out of class to attend a rehearsal without permission.
The student is older, because of local admission rules - unless the student is from another academic institution similar in educational standards, they can only join a lower grade class.
I believe that a lot of high schools in the world share the same practice. H/e, the problems surface when their parents fail to teach them the basics.
If a student can walk out confidently, or talk-back rudely, it tells the adult a lot about his upbringing. In this day and age, I am still surprised that parents have children yet refuse to teach them anything at all. Such parents should be shamed. Schools should not tolerate such behavior either. Students like these should be expelled.
Discipline is critical in how we are going to succeed in life. Without discipline, there is nothing to keep anyone from breaking societal laws, because there never was any foundation for the importance of following rules.
When in Rome, do as the Romans do.
If that is too tall an order to fill, the parents should just take their child out of that environment and find another more suited to their peasant thinking. Behavior like that is toxic to the student community and it's unfair for parents who have taken the time and put in the effort to parent their children only to have an out-of-control child undo all that teaching.
This is why I have no empathy. People do not deserve empathy because they themselves do not see that others need it too. Kindness and patience means nothing to the teenager who thinks he is above everyone else.
Yesterday, a teenager sliced the neck of another with a blunt box cutter because he 'felt like it'. Lucky for the victim, the box cutter was blunt so he escaped fatality. I'm surprised the parents of the victim have not made a fuss about it.
My friend, who witnessed this incident was appalled. His hands are tied, because again, if the authorities are not going to react, he cannot.
To parents who raise children to be proud of their achievements, I say, you have failed.
The real test comes when these kids grow with society and influence others to be more considerate and to make sure the standards are not compromised but upheld. A kid, who is 50 now and running a company is not the product of successful parenting if he spends his time basking in his achievements instead of being more altruistic towards whoever he contacts.
I'm disgusted at how lame people have become.
People who say out loud - winning is not everything, yet whose mantra is about trophies.
Parenting did not just fail for this generation. It has been failing since the economic boom. It started to fail as the city scape changed. Someone broke the parenting for success mold.
This is a relatively easy question.
When a teenager, who is older than his classmates, refuses to complete classwork, and chooses to walk out of class to attend a rehearsal without permission.
The student is older, because of local admission rules - unless the student is from another academic institution similar in educational standards, they can only join a lower grade class.
I believe that a lot of high schools in the world share the same practice. H/e, the problems surface when their parents fail to teach them the basics.
If a student can walk out confidently, or talk-back rudely, it tells the adult a lot about his upbringing. In this day and age, I am still surprised that parents have children yet refuse to teach them anything at all. Such parents should be shamed. Schools should not tolerate such behavior either. Students like these should be expelled.
Discipline is critical in how we are going to succeed in life. Without discipline, there is nothing to keep anyone from breaking societal laws, because there never was any foundation for the importance of following rules.
When in Rome, do as the Romans do.
If that is too tall an order to fill, the parents should just take their child out of that environment and find another more suited to their peasant thinking. Behavior like that is toxic to the student community and it's unfair for parents who have taken the time and put in the effort to parent their children only to have an out-of-control child undo all that teaching.
This is why I have no empathy. People do not deserve empathy because they themselves do not see that others need it too. Kindness and patience means nothing to the teenager who thinks he is above everyone else.
Yesterday, a teenager sliced the neck of another with a blunt box cutter because he 'felt like it'. Lucky for the victim, the box cutter was blunt so he escaped fatality. I'm surprised the parents of the victim have not made a fuss about it.
My friend, who witnessed this incident was appalled. His hands are tied, because again, if the authorities are not going to react, he cannot.
To parents who raise children to be proud of their achievements, I say, you have failed.
The real test comes when these kids grow with society and influence others to be more considerate and to make sure the standards are not compromised but upheld. A kid, who is 50 now and running a company is not the product of successful parenting if he spends his time basking in his achievements instead of being more altruistic towards whoever he contacts.
I'm disgusted at how lame people have become.
People who say out loud - winning is not everything, yet whose mantra is about trophies.
Parenting did not just fail for this generation. It has been failing since the economic boom. It started to fail as the city scape changed. Someone broke the parenting for success mold.
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