There is a lot of political correctness in discipline these days

I grew up with discipline being dished out when it was deserved. My Grandmother was the one who mostly raised my as Mum was always having to work. Just a look or her saying to me “I’m so disappointed” hurt more than a smack or any other punishment you could think of.

I was smacked and hit with a wooden spoon as a child and I am an asshole. I prefer to parent differently. I think my kids are fairly awesome, most of the time.

I agree with a lot of this. My husband is always on his phone and the kids do notice. I try to minimise the use of mine when the kids are around and actually spend time with them when I can. Life is too short and they won’t be babies forever. I think that there is way too much technology use these days and not enough playing outside- I like to get my kids outside whenever I can and do crafts and play rather than TV. I also may seem like a meany but if my son falls over (which is a lot as he’s clumsy) I just say you’ll be right and keep walking so he learns not to be such a sook.

I agree to some degree. It would be nice if there were a greater balance between how we were raised and how kids were raised today. It seems we’ve gone to such an extreme.

always good to hear different views

We need to progress from wooden spoon parenting, fear does nothing but make kids not trust their parents. Building honest,kind and caring relationships, letting kids be individuals and be creative goes a lot further. Give love, support and encourage them to think for themselves and the rest will follow.

My eldest two were easy kids to raise, we have a little hormone horror once a month but otherwise they are good, my youngest two however really give me a run for my money, they have a decent amount of attitude for me to deal with

Well it’s odd they feel this way. Its is their children that are raising their grandkids… and it was them who raised their children (duh). So maybe they are partly to blame too!! hah!

I don’t think being yelled or hit with a wooden spoon create better people.It makes negative impact on child’s mind.

I see lots of parents being too self-involved to the detriment of their children.

Its so hard to know what is right and what is wrong when it comes to parenting, all we can do is our very best and hope like hell our kids turn out alright and don’t end up hating us for any mistakes we make along the way.

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  • • Ellen replied
    • 12 Sep 2019 , 7:30 am

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  True !

There is some truth to it, but it has never been ok to hot children with a wooden spoon

I believe it’s all relative to the era and the particular challenges faced in that era, time and space. We certainly have different challenges today than in time gone by; the internet and social media is a prime example of that.

One can become a helicopter parent tpp quickly. There is something to be said for grandparents building resilience into children, Yes times have changed but the wisdom of grandparents will always be there if needed.

Grandparents in general don’t understand how the changed world impacts on parenting.

The world has changed. Can’t let the kids go outside and ride bikes up and down the street anymore it’s too unsafe. Technology is taking over the world.

In my idea a lot of kids nowadays spend too much time online and I don’t find that a good thing.
On the other side parents are more aware of kids’ rights and, luckily, hitting kids and punish them is not considered a way to go. Sadly it happened too often in the past.

Parenting and the way we are bringing up our children has changed so much so soon. It must be really hard for the older generation to see this huge change and it must be worrying for them however unfortunately this is the way of the future. Technology is a way of life now and it is only going to keep on improving from here.

It definitely is totally different from when we were kids. To some degree, I agree that kids nowadays are a little too mollycoddled ,,, but, the times we live in now require that they are more protected.