Britain has the worst set of teenage kids in all of Europe, says a fancy survey. The news channels love shocking statistics’ such as these. Especially if 60% of the teenagers don’t spend time with their family at all. The survey mentions or rather explains that the kids are getting out of control by binge drinking and sexual promiscuousness because they do not have enough adult interaction. The teenagers interviewed on TV say they don’t know what to talk to their parents and they rather talk to their friends. Parents in turn are complaining that the kids don’t listen to them.
Obviously in today’s day and age if you are going to order around a young boy to come down and eat at the table you are not going to get any conformity. I hated it when I was a teenager and was just told what to do rather than when my dad explained the reason behind why he said what he said. It appealed to my intelligence. It made me feel that my parents think of me as an equal. In turn it increased my respect for them and I became more ‘manageable’. In that respect I have been a very tough person to bring up.
I don’t know how parents can turn around and blame the kids for being non communicative, it totally escapes me. These are kids born with a blank slate of a mind and you were responsible to write all the beneficial things on that slate. In turn you decide to order them around, when they go to their peers for the answers and then don’t bother with you…. You scream murder.
What’s even more shocking is that one news piece said that children these days don’t do family things. And by that apparently they meant playing board games!!! So in this technologically obsessed era parents want to improve family relationships by playing board games!!!! Am I the only one amused by such a comment?
The hard fact of this issue is parents are too bloody lazy to catch up with the type of life the kids are living today. Over half of them don’t even know how to use a computer and they expect their kids to have discussions with them? On what? The neighbour’s new car?
For a change if you want family relations to improve, instead of barking rules at your kids, learn how to play one of the smarter computer games from them and try having a good time their way.
Respect them and you will never need to bark at them ever again. They are your children not your show dogs.
Obviously in today’s day and age if you are going to order around a young boy to come down and eat at the table you are not going to get any conformity. I hated it when I was a teenager and was just told what to do rather than when my dad explained the reason behind why he said what he said. It appealed to my intelligence. It made me feel that my parents think of me as an equal. In turn it increased my respect for them and I became more ‘manageable’. In that respect I have been a very tough person to bring up.
I don’t know how parents can turn around and blame the kids for being non communicative, it totally escapes me. These are kids born with a blank slate of a mind and you were responsible to write all the beneficial things on that slate. In turn you decide to order them around, when they go to their peers for the answers and then don’t bother with you…. You scream murder.
What’s even more shocking is that one news piece said that children these days don’t do family things. And by that apparently they meant playing board games!!! So in this technologically obsessed era parents want to improve family relationships by playing board games!!!! Am I the only one amused by such a comment?
The hard fact of this issue is parents are too bloody lazy to catch up with the type of life the kids are living today. Over half of them don’t even know how to use a computer and they expect their kids to have discussions with them? On what? The neighbour’s new car?
For a change if you want family relations to improve, instead of barking rules at your kids, learn how to play one of the smarter computer games from them and try having a good time their way.
Respect them and you will never need to bark at them ever again. They are your children not your show dogs.