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a poor parenting
b too many fizzy drinks
c too much chocolate
b too many fizzy drinks
c too much chocolate
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lack of discipline leading to lack of respect
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Eastenders
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because parents and teachers are not allowed to lay a finger on them anymore and they know it
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must admit tv progs set a bad example.
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D - Computers fking up their heads
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must admit regular internet use can cause mental health problems. but then again many are born with aspergers, add,adhd and dyspraxia.
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They are spoiled and indulged, this means that people with life experience are not passing this on to youngsters.
Without proper mentoring and role models they pick up anti-social and infantile habits. At the age of 9 i would get up at 6am with my Father, fetch in the coal, light the fire. Go out and feed the dogs/chickens/ferrets. Help my younger sisters dress and get breakfast then do TWO paper rounds before running to school. School was 8.30 until 4.30, not as it seems today 10am until about 2.30!! I went in the mills at 15 and handed over £20 of my £38 take home pay. I left home at 16 and at 18 i was definitely an adult. I meet 30 years olds now who cannot read and write, get out of bed or manage their finances! |
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surely if you leave home in your teens you will have problems with debt?
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option A in 99% of cases.
I'm guessing you've just watched that show on ITV with Chris Tarrant - look at the Reggie's parents - neither one of them said anything loving or positive about their child. His mother actually used the words "I don't care about him, I care about other children". I'd put my entire bank on the fact the mother had a $hit childhood and it's all been passed onto that poor child (and the poor society who has to deal with him). |
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doesnt a poor diet influence beahviour though? cant sugar and caffiene cause bad behaviour?
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why dont parents care?
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People have so much entertainment at their fingertips, kids cant handle boredom nowadays. In the past we had the capacity to handle boredom.....
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Problem with debt? No-one had any money or could borrow in those days but we did not starve.
You worked all week, got the pay packet with cash and budgeted for the week. If you got a tenner out on Sunday night in the pub people would stare! |
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Dont mistake poor childhood for poor parenting.
Nowhere near the same thing. |
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A stirring story, EA. You forgot the compulsory chimney cleaning and rickets though.
Brought a tear to my eye. |
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A very deep problem with no quick** |
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Women in the workplace.
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Lack of effective discipline.
Fewer affordable physical activities available both in schools and urban areas in general. |
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im better behaved since i have consumed less caffiene.
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Not sure they are but assuming they are there are a number of factors which are often overlooked:
The death of the extended family due to increased geographical mobility has a lot to do with it imo. The absence of aunts, grannies, cousins, etc, in and around the home has led to most new parents starting their parenting from scratch and with little or no support. By contrast, past generations of parents often had ready access to expert family help. The push to get women to work has also resulted in many mums farming their children out to strangers in nurseries rather than raising them themselves. While many nurseries are no doubt fine, I can't help but wonder whether there are any long-term consequences of this buiness arrangement. Finally, the absence of fathers in many homes is undoubtedly a key factor in juvenile delinquency imo. Too many children youths have been exposed to feckless, irresponsible, violent, drug-addicted, criminal dads. We all learn best by example. What example are these delinquent boys getting from their fathers? |
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+1 to what slarty said.
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the working class used to be the best thing about britain. nowadays sadly they are a national embarrassment
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Slarty's last point is relevant. Human beings are basically still pack animals and the lack of an alpha male causes problems for many youngsters.
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why are children behaving so badly more than they used to
Women used to stay at home and men used to go to work. This was normal. Mum was there when kids came home from school. She was there to get them up for school. Dad used to see them before they went to bed and at weekends. No childminders back in those days. But today, everybody has to keep up with the Jones's. They have to own their house, not rent it from the council, they can't drive an old car, it has to be a 4x4, in the city, ffs !! Kids have to have X-boxes, Playstations, Wiis, fashionable clothes, mobile phones that take pictures, computers, only the 'right' trainers will do. When I was a kid we never even had a landline phone in the house, and double glazing was for rich people. |