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Parents fixated on being kids friends?

Posted by: 2UE | 4 February, 2012 - 12:21 PM
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Educators say parents are too fixated on being "friends" with their children, and are increasingly neglecting their duty to enforce boundaries. Do they have a point or should they simply butt out? Mike Jeffreys with more.

 

 


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  • yes, too scared to smack, too scared to say NO, to scared to discipline, or maybe it`s too hard. Children calling adults by their first name was only the beginning. Respect for adults and authority begins at home,and it needs to be taught, the new trend is thinking that the children will just pick it up out of thin air, I`m sorry, it needs to be taught. Doesnt help with some new married families keeping seperate surnames, seperate bank accounts, seperate identities, and have their children brought up by strangers.

    John A Monday 6 February, 2012 - 3:57 PM

  • The determined, infiltrating new age google "educators" members of the militant defiant lazy slime green, getup Labor Teacher's Federation have undermined the parents authority with their warped ideologies being cultivated daily in our fertile School grounds and union orientated Universities and TAFE Colleges. Where there are young easily misled, naive minds. So many too familiar children are nowadays on a first name basis with their politicised "educators" and apparently now the same first name basis with their parents. The obvious very serious ramifications of lost respect and lost discipline and lost morals in our schools has filtered right down through our troubled community. Evidently the well drilled, militant, defiant lazy slime green, getup Labor Teacher's Federation "educators" are now playing the blame game, wrongly blaming the mums and dads for the "educators" dumbing-down of our disrespectful illiterate, innumerate school children. The taxpayer-paid under worked, overpaid, irresponsible members of the militant, defiant lazy slime green, getup Labor Teacher's Federation days are numbered and they know it. Hence, their desperate, we want more money, less work NSW Premier Barry O'Farrell, pathetic radio advertising campaign. We must go back to proven teaching, where the teachers had a true teaching vocation without this damned money grabbing, militant, defiant lazy slime green, getup Labor Teacher's Federation brainwashing our messed-up children.

    Lloyd Sunday 5 February, 2012 - 1:30 PM

  • Is this the same 'educators' that drag parents over the coals over allegations of child abuse if a child says their parents smacked them - another tired old issue that was once again plucked up by academics this week.

    Whose really responsible for the lack of discipline in schools. Not the teachers. It's the educators in the upper hieracy of the education system. But, primarily it's parents. Because it's parents that allow it happen.

    Liberator Sunday 5 February, 2012 - 11:18 AM

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