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Originally Posted by No More "W's"
Agrippina,
Frankly, I wonder if this is the general attitude toward children in school, is that part of the problem. I never was frustrated by anything with my sons or other children. I voluntered for many activities with my sons and coached their teams in sports. I know others don't have that kind of time. Sometimes there were troubled kids with questionable parents, but things seemed to work out with a little effort. Maybe the kids that suck have parents that suck? Maybe there is a lack of effort with parents and teachers today. I doubt seriously that the problem begins with the children.
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The problem never begins with the children. Bad parents have bad children. Of course there are exceptions. Children have problems today that we didn't have and that our children perhaps didn't have or that weren't diagnosed. If you have kids with ADD or ADHD you can be the best parent in the world and not be able to help the child. Also because perhaps of the lifestyle, stress, food additives etc, there seems to be more and more of this sort of problem happending, then you have kids who have Foetal alcohol syndrome, where they are born already alcoholics or kids with drug addict mothers who are born drug addicts. We didn't have these problems at least not when I was young. Our mothers didn't really drink and certainly didn't do drugs and our food, well my mother grew her own fruit and vegetables so it was all picked fresh from the garden for cooking. That plays a huge role in what happens to kids.
Then a I said at the start, you have simply bad parents who think they don't have to do anything except bear the child, the world around them will do the rest.