Thread: Rude children

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Originally Posted by ryomakurosaki

Alright I have a job to work with children to help them to be better in school. I am a tutor/teacher and I like the place I work but the children I am teaching some of them are so rude! I can't really do except say "behave" or "sit down and do your work!" I am not to fond of those children at all. (but for some reason they like me...wierd..) anyways who do we blame in this whole scheme of things? The children? The parents? or Television?

I blame the parents and t.v. As a child what you learn is from things around you. The best term to use is monkey see, monkey do. They saw and then they copy. T.v. is only getting worst with some of the shows. The have no moral value and the children are only being corrupted.

-When dealing with rude children, who do you blame?
-Explain your views.
~thank you~

Personally I think the most responsibility is to the parents. They are the ones who the children look up to and learn from them as they grow up. Television is just part of a way to learn additional things. But discipline comes from the parents as the TV doesn't control how your child should act, it shows them way to act and most of the time it shows violence.

I always wonder how good I will be teaching because I hate it at the moment how most children can get a way with almost anything and the parents do not do anything to prevent it. Although, I hate to say it but my younger brother seems to get away with talking back so much and all my older brother does is encourage. They don't seem to have much respect for our mother who raised us and do the best she could to help us grow. I find it rather upsetting that they even think it. Because I didn't turn out like they have so she must have found it really difficult to raise up boys as she couldn't relate to them.

Of course, I am not saying my mother is bad at what she does, I love my mum and I am grateful for everything she does. Its just sometimes, its hard for a mother to really cope with boys who make it so much difficult for her. As much as we are all tend to think its the parents fault, I think I should also say that sometimes its just hard to cope with difficult children and for someone who really tries there best it doesn't feel right to point directly at them. But then there are parents who haven't even bothered to try but left their child to their own demise and never take any notice of what their child does.

I am going to throw one more bit into the mix. You can blame the parents in entirety buuuut...

The average hours a parent spends with their child is 7 (fathers) to 13 (mothers) hours per week. Now that is an average of 10 hours out of 168 hours or 112 if you remove 8 hours a night for sleeping (though studies say that we are sleeping less then that). So assuming I have done my math right parents spend less then 12% of a child's waking hours with them. SO who is influencing them the other 88% of the time and are we saying that whoever they are will have absolutely no effect on them?

In fact I am going to take it one step further. As low as that number is it is higher then it was 40 years ago, 30% higher for mothers and 100% higher for fathers. Yet everyone says that our children are ruder now then they were then. So what changed?

Originally Posted by Arrianna

In fact I am going to take it one step further. As low as that number is it is higher then it was 40 years ago, 30% higher for mothers and 100% higher for fathers. Yet everyone says that our children are ruder now then they were then. So what changed?

Could it be the world around them? I mean look at the difference in technology, these days you can see 7 year olds with a Nintendo DS, mobile phones and other technical equipment that I never had. children these days have been brought up in a more materialistic world. Fashions seems to be much more thrown upon little girls. They even take girl power to a different level. Plus even the fashion that is around, is almost slutty enough for teenages, but they have it in sizes for children.

Children are trying to grow up too fast rather than accepting that they are child. They want what teenagers have, teenagers want what young adults have. Its like they are completely missing the point of what childhood is meant to be like because doll companies are kind of imposing the teenage image onto them. That also brings along the attitude with it too.

That is just my opinion.