Today's kids may be rudest and most spoiled ever in history

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Parenting blogs — and grandparents — echo that shock. A commenter on a recent New York Times’ blog recounted seeing a preschooler purposely trip a woman in a crowded restaurant, and chortle, “‘Mommy, did you see me trip that woman? I tripped her!’” — with no corrective measure from the mother. On Grandparents.com, a mortified grandmother recently asked for advice on how to handle her grandson’s relentless public insulting of his own mother, who apparently seemed unable or unwilling to stand up to the mistreatment.

Many experts say today’s kids are ruder than ever. And it may have something to do with popular parenting movements focusing on self-esteem and the generation that’s embracing them: Generation X, or those born between 1965 and 1977.

On paper, it doesn’t add up. After all, by many accounts Generation X may be the most devoted parents in American history. They are champions of "attachment parenting," the school of child-rearing that calls for a high level of closeness between parents and children, Many Gen-X parents co-sleep with their children, hold them back from entering kindergarten if they feel their children’s emotional maturity is at stake and volunteer at their kids' schools at record rates. Gen-X moms have been famously criticized by early feminists for dropping out of the workforce to care for their young children.

Overuse of cell phones is destroying actual human communication among people of all ages. Nobody feels like talking about it because most people contribute to the problem. It should be considered an addiction/illness epidemic.

It's really quite sad.

You trolling little shit

U need some discipline

People born 1965-1977 are 38-50 years old. Generally speaking, people in that age range do NOT have very young children. Some of those people may indeed have young, bratty children. But, most of the parents you see with young children are going to be younger than 38 years old.

Ill explain it.
back in the 80's the single mother was praised and told she could do no wrong and it was all the dead beat father's fault.this broke down the family unit,it took the foundation out of the home"the father".With the foundation gone the mother"support,walls to the foundation"became unstable.She went looking for what was missing,she doesn't know how to raise children.No matter how much propaganda about how the mother is the one that raises kids,it's false.Father's are the ones built with the tools to raise kids.Mothers are supposed to be the support to the father.this was broken when they prop'd up the single mother.So during all of that the movies,gov propaganda filled school system,thugs on the streets and such ended up raising the youth of this country,after all back then the father's were labeled dead beat dads no matter how much they tried to be in their kids life.The court system stacked the decks against them.Add to that the spying aspect,when the school system brainwashed the kids to rat on their parents if they even raised their voice.this put power into the hands of untrained youths.They knew not what they were doing when they picked up the phone to report their "abusive parent".Add affirmative action to that list and bus inner city youths into the mix and here we are.....A masterpiece....

A good dose of "The little house on the prairie" is what ye all need over there!

Say it with me: White people problems!

that is the problem, right there.

The education system is in on it too.

Both of my sons have told me how unruly children are actually rewarded in their school. One fat kid knows damn well that he simply needs to flip out and roll around a bit to score himself a burger and some attention.

IMO the biggest change is a lack of corporal punishment. Children need a bit of healthy fear to keep them in check, otherwise, they run amok.

Biggest problem is smartphones and Internet don't teach manners

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Parenting blogs — and grandparents — echo that shock. A commenter on a recent New York Times’ blog recounted seeing a preschooler purposely trip a woman in a crowded restaurant, and chortle, “‘Mommy, did you see me trip that woman? I tripped her!’” — with no corrective measure from the mother.

Said every older generation about every younger generation since the beginning of time. Congrats OP you win the stupid thread of the day award.