MoonChild wrote:
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I have wondered quite often what caused this attitude. Is it because a lot of these kids have parents brought up in the 70s and the time of free love? Is it because they were brought up by parents of the 80s that were part of the "Me generation"? Or maybe it's because they were brought up in the 90s when we had a booming economy and people could afford luxury items? It's probably a combination of all of those things plus other things I haven't thought of or listed. Netty's rules apply to all of those kids, and I am afraid that they might be shocked when thet get out into the real world. I know that I was shocked and it was just 11 years ago. (Wow. That long already! :blink: ) I don't know, just something I have been thinking about for a few years now.
MoonChild,
I also have thought a lot about that. I think it's really a mixture of many of the points you brought out. One thing I also have noticed, especially in the late 80's and in the 90's, much of the child-rearing "advice" was contradictory. "Check up on your kids" vs "Trust your kids", "Family time" vs "Independence", "Allowance" vs "No allowance", "strict" vs "not strict", etc. I think that many parents either had such low faith in their own parenting abilities or were very easily swayed by whatever popular opinions were the rage at the time. In my own observation, inconsistency is the worst thing really for kids. I believe there's a lot involved in the issue, but that was just another thought I had about the issue.
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