Man this is terrible. I wish I could argue against it, or even just feel like it isn’t true but kid now think any form of discipline is abuse, which makes parents afraid to discipline, and lack of discipline makes kids no one wants to be around and who will grow up to be humans everyone will work hard to avoid.
Some think the government has the childrens’ best interests at heart with all the anti-disciplinarian legislation, but the negative outcomes seem to easily foreseeable to be blind negligence. It feels somehow more sinister to me, but perhaps I go too far. In either case, the issues you’re talking about are palpable today, but I fear the real impact will not be see or known for another 10 years or so, when a whole generation of grossly undisciplined children have grown up to be unhinged adults. I’d say the work force will be flooded with assholes, but they’ll probably all be isolated at home, trying to make it big on YouTube while collecting unemployment…
Ok I’m definitely getting carried away now. I enjoyed your article, apologies for so many unsolicited opinions 🤣
My concern is that these unhinged adults will have their own children. Honestly, I can see this affecting many children in the future if the culture doesn’t change. There’s a quote I’ve heard: administrators are afraid of parents, parents are afraid of their kids, and the kids are afraid of nobody. Not that I want to kids to be afraid of teacher but I do feel like the quote is pretty fitting.
That quote is exactly right. As for the generation that comes from this generation??? Yeah there some Lord of the Flies potential there lol