Post by kayoneuu1 on Jul 26, 2019 23:04:14 GMT
An interesting response, on the ABC news website, to John Marsdens criticism (https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-07-25/john-marsden-on-parenting,-education-and-mental-health-of-kids/11308954) of today’s parents.
Today's parents cop a lot of flak. We're variously described as helicopters or tigers.
We are viewed as "either too hands-off or too hands-on", wrote social researcher Rebecca Huntley in 2017. We parent by "remote control" or are too overprotective. Whatever we're doing, we're doing it wrong.
The latest admonishment comes from children's author and school principal John Marsden, who has written a new book about parenting, The Art of Growing Up. He says "toxic parenting" is creating an epidemic of anxiety among today's children. In his view, our ham-fisted attempts at parenting are ruining our kids.
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So, thank you, John Marsden, I am happy to take on any constructive criticism you may have in my ongoing effort to be a better parent. What I don't accept is that my generation represents a new nadir in parenting.
www.abc.net.au/news/2019-07-27/parenting-today-not-worse-than-in-the-past/11350316
I agree with Nicola. I often hear young parents torn down for how they are apparently ruining their kids with their parenting style. They can’t seem to do anything right and have no idea what they are doing.
Well of course they don’t, they’ve never done It Before! I had no idea what I was doing either, and in fact, I’m currently learning how to parent 30somethings with children of their own.
I think it’s sad when older generations attack young people for things they probably did or didn’t do themselves. As the old saying goes, you can’t tech experience.
Today's parents cop a lot of flak. We're variously described as helicopters or tigers.
We are viewed as "either too hands-off or too hands-on", wrote social researcher Rebecca Huntley in 2017. We parent by "remote control" or are too overprotective. Whatever we're doing, we're doing it wrong.
The latest admonishment comes from children's author and school principal John Marsden, who has written a new book about parenting, The Art of Growing Up. He says "toxic parenting" is creating an epidemic of anxiety among today's children. In his view, our ham-fisted attempts at parenting are ruining our kids.
......
So, thank you, John Marsden, I am happy to take on any constructive criticism you may have in my ongoing effort to be a better parent. What I don't accept is that my generation represents a new nadir in parenting.
www.abc.net.au/news/2019-07-27/parenting-today-not-worse-than-in-the-past/11350316
I agree with Nicola. I often hear young parents torn down for how they are apparently ruining their kids with their parenting style. They can’t seem to do anything right and have no idea what they are doing.
Well of course they don’t, they’ve never done It Before! I had no idea what I was doing either, and in fact, I’m currently learning how to parent 30somethings with children of their own.
I think it’s sad when older generations attack young people for things they probably did or didn’t do themselves. As the old saying goes, you can’t tech experience.
