Each generation of children seem to get worse each time.

[KickFlow]

I was spanked as a child and I turned out to be a great guy.

Now here; I'm a piece of stuff and an starfish, but that's just because everyone is on blockland.

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[hillkill]

i think tony is just jealous of the fact he didn't grow up with the technology we did today. just some thought.

[XR-7]

I've been spanked, slapped, grounded, the whole nine yards until I was around 10 or so, then I was simply grounded. I continued to be grounded until I turned 18. In the later years though, I was always getting away with technicalities in the family's "legal system". For example, if I got in trouble, my parents would make me go fetch the PS2/3 power cables. Then for the remainder of the week, I'd just play the PC or watch TV all day. That really pissed them off lol.

I was and still am just a cheeky little squirt though. Aggressive sarcasm and technicalities are kinda my thing. Other than that, I don't hold anything related to punishment against my parents. They continue their methods to my siblings to this day and I'm glad they get the same treatment as I did.

The thing with my parents though is that they are extremely overprotective. They are very good at hiding the real world from their kids. I didn't recognize my first swear word until I was 8, even though I was reportedly using them at 6 years old just from other school kids trying to get me in trouble. I also didn't know what love was until I discovered it on accident when I was 13. I didn't understand exactly how it worked until I was around 16 (I wasn't even 16 when I registered my first forum account for example).

[Marios]

In my opinion, parents should mainly talk to their children about why they shouldn't do the things they're not allowed to do. Tell them how falling down 5 meters can be very painful for them. Tell them not to touch the stove/iron because it will also be very painful. Tell them how punching the bully in the face will get them punished by the school. But, if you really have to hit them, hit them.

The first thing children do after a punishment of type "No X for Y days" or spanking is complaining about it, and that occurs more often than it may seem.
There's a noticeable difference between
"Better not touch the iron, it will burn me."
and
"Better not touch the iron, they'll spank me."

[TableSalt]

there isn't really a """next generation""" because people are being born all the time

[Maxwell.]

there isn't really a """next generation""" because people are being born all the time

I was born last week

[Clownfish]

so what if they do bad things
what if they steal food that wasn't theirs
what if they curse way too loving much
what if they keep getting angry and breaking your stuff
and no matter how much you talk to them they won't listen

also (as expected of you) you missed the entire loving point because why the forget would you spank your children over something like touching the stove or falling too far, like holy stuff you're loving moronic, it's discipline not abuse

[Marios]

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But, if you really have to hit them, hit them.

Read, don't scrape.

[XR-7]

so what if they do bad things
what if they steal food that wasn't theirs
what if they curse way too loving much
what if they keep getting angry and breaking your stuff
and no matter how much you talk to them they won't listen

also (as expected of you) you missed the entire loving point because why the forget would you spank your children over something like touching the stove or falling too far, like holy stuff you're loving moronic, it's discipline not abuse

Kids who don't listen get to face prison time later. Either teach them to integrate nicely into society or they don't get to be a part of it.

[Clownfish]

Read, don't scrape.

except I did read

[Marios]

You wouldn't say that if you had actually read.

[Clownfish]

You wouldn't say that if you had actually read.

and you wouldn't say

Read, don't scrape.

if you could actually defend yourself

[Goth77]

Read, don't scrape.

It's called "skimming" not scraping.

Kids who don't listen get to face prison time later. Either teach them to integrate nicely into society or they don't get to be a part of it.

Prime example: I grew up with this kid who's mom bought him pretty much anything he wanted. he was hardly disciplined except for being yelled at occasionally or grounded which obviously didnt mean stuff to either of them because he did what he wanted anyways. Long story short, he is in prison right now. Is that his mom's fault? Not necessarily, the kid made his own choices through adulthood, started doing bad drugs and hanging with the wrong crowd. However, I do believe he could have had a little more guidance from his mother, and maybe if she put more a little more effort as a parent she could have steered him in a better direction.

While I don't think this thread is accurate saying children get "worse" each generation, it's not completely wrong. Parents these days try to sugar coat everything as if their kids are living in la-la land, where everything is provided for them and they don't have to worry about anything. Many kids these days do not have the levels of respect they should because they get everything handed to them. There is a fine line between discipline and abuse, and our generation is slowly blurring the line saying that even spanking your kid nowadays is going too far? Well I disagree.

[XR-7]

It's called "skimming" not scraping.
Prime example: I grew up with this kid who's mom bought him pretty much anything he wanted. he was hardly disciplined except for being yelled at occasionally or grounded which obviously didnt mean stuff to either of them because he did what he wanted anyways. Long story short, he is in prison right now. Is that his mom's fault? Not necessarily, the kid made his own choices through adulthood, started doing bad drugs and hanging with the wrong crowd. However, I do believe he could have had a little more guidance from his mother, and maybe if she put more a little more effort as a parent she could have steered him in a better direction.

While I don't think this thread is accurate saying children get "worse" each generation, it's not completely wrong. Parents these days try to sugar coat everything as if their kids are living in la-la land, where everything is provided for them and they don't have to worry about anything. Many kids these days do not have the levels of respect they should because they get everything handed to them. There is a fine line between discipline and abuse, and our generation is slowly blurring the line saying that even spanking your kid nowadays is going too far? Well I disagree.

People don't grow into functional members of society unless there is mutual effort being put into raising them. It's either the parent(s)'s fault, the kid's fault, or both.

[maplelink64]

It's not necessarily that kids need to be spanked, but they do need to be disciplined and not given everything on a silver platter.

This
I wasn't spanked as a kid, but i didn't need to be. I was the perfect baby lmao. I always did basically nothing wrong really.
New generations are spoiled little stuffs that think they're tough as stuff
Parents are becoming too soft, giving everything the child wants. I live near an elementary school right, and i see basically every little kid there has some expensive af phone. In my eyes, they shouldn't even have a phone until around 4th-5th grade i guess (which is when everyone started getting them at my time.) Not kindergartners.
But that's just my opinion.