AlwaysWrite
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It's not often discussed within the concept of "do-your-own-thing" modern-day thinking, but it should be obvious that the way children are brought up in this day and age -- as compared to yesteryear -- isn't enhancing beneficial behavior of children and young adults.
Are any or all of the following scenarios beneficial with regard to child behavior and child raising in modern-day culture?
* Not being able to spank children if they throw a fit or have a temper tantrum in public.
* Minimizing the rewarding and/0r recognition for outstanding achievement, so as not to make "average" or less-than-average children feel inferior or inadequate.
* Policies of raising children under the guise of being praised or rewarded regardless of lack of achievement, which leads to such things as T-ball competition without keeping score (to prevent losers from feeling bad) and the abandonment of titles of valedictorian and salutatorian in many American schools for the same reason.
* Promoting a culture of handouts, rather than stressing the concept of the values of hard work and perseverance leading to success and reward.
* Too many instances of teachers attempting to indoctrinate their students toward "political correctness" and slanted viewpoints in lieu of stressing the "3 Rs" of days gone by.
Such things are helping to create current and future generations that have limited self-respect and reduced concept of the correlation of work to reward. And in attempts to "protect" children from hardship and disappointment, we are likely heading so many of them to lives as "spoiled brats" without the capability to properly deal with adversity or disappointments.
In the modern-day world of increased violence and lack of respect for law enforcement, our children aren't learning how to address killing and violence, along with the means to deal with grievances or the concept of working together to understand differences and problem solving.
Modern technology, including social media, has left younger generations less able to deal with proper human interaction, and their upbringing has made it more acceptable and "entitled" to interact and behave badly.
Are any or all of the following scenarios beneficial with regard to child behavior and child raising in modern-day culture?
* Not being able to spank children if they throw a fit or have a temper tantrum in public.
* Minimizing the rewarding and/0r recognition for outstanding achievement, so as not to make "average" or less-than-average children feel inferior or inadequate.
* Policies of raising children under the guise of being praised or rewarded regardless of lack of achievement, which leads to such things as T-ball competition without keeping score (to prevent losers from feeling bad) and the abandonment of titles of valedictorian and salutatorian in many American schools for the same reason.
* Promoting a culture of handouts, rather than stressing the concept of the values of hard work and perseverance leading to success and reward.
* Too many instances of teachers attempting to indoctrinate their students toward "political correctness" and slanted viewpoints in lieu of stressing the "3 Rs" of days gone by.
Such things are helping to create current and future generations that have limited self-respect and reduced concept of the correlation of work to reward. And in attempts to "protect" children from hardship and disappointment, we are likely heading so many of them to lives as "spoiled brats" without the capability to properly deal with adversity or disappointments.
In the modern-day world of increased violence and lack of respect for law enforcement, our children aren't learning how to address killing and violence, along with the means to deal with grievances or the concept of working together to understand differences and problem solving.
Modern technology, including social media, has left younger generations less able to deal with proper human interaction, and their upbringing has made it more acceptable and "entitled" to interact and behave badly.