Also kids need to learn that they aren't special. No more everyone gets a trophy or award. You want the trophy? Then earn it. You aren't good enough? Tough shit kiddo, life's a bitch. They should definitely feel loved though. That is the parents main job, love your kids unconditionally. Parents need to understand that love doesn't mean bronzing the kids first shit or giving them everything they want. Teach them about life, praise them when they are good & hug them when they fall short & encourage them to do better next time. If they are shit at something, gently steer them toward something that they have the aptitude for. Nothing is stupider than a slow fat kid getting a medal in athletics or the kid who cant count to potato getting an academic achievement award. It makes everyone warm & fuzzy at the time, but it is half the reason that there are so many self entitled f**k ups roaming the streets.
The other big problem re mollycoddling is the world is full of merkins. As a parent letting your child go to the park on their own for the first time is pretty harrowing. Not because the kid will do the wrong thing, just the worry of a guy in a Kombi with a bag of boiled lollies. There has to come a time when you have to deal with that & let go though.[/qupte]
This whole 'everybody can grow up to be a movie star/sports star/astronaut' line of reasoning has created a generation (mine included) of entitled, underskilled idiots.
The world needs cleaners and retail staff, but those doing it are largely unhappy because they were raised with a false idea of how the world works.
I say this as a person who is literally doing everything he can to not do said boring, menial work.
FFS, I flee the country rather than deal with it - so my own folks are guilty of it too. There's a line between belief in your child and failing to teach them the realities of the real world.
2. I am pro vaccination for obvious reasons. But I have recently come to understand the viewpoint of the other side.
I recently reconnected via facebook with a childhood friend. We lived next door to each other from birth until she moved when we were about 14. We still went to the same school and socialised until we were 18 or 19. She was always an intelligent grounded sort of a chick & certainly not a hippy radical type. A month or so ago a post came up on my newsfeed from her that read a bit anti vaccination, it copped a few negative comments & then went full venomous. She was being called a monster etc & she just kept defending her right to a choice. I thought it was odd so I messaged her. Turns out she lost her son due to a reaction from a vaccination when he was 2. It would be pretty hard to take as a parent losing your child "for the greater good"
I still believe vaccination is the best choice, but some do have legit reasons for being against it. Most of the against crowd are just dumb hippies though.
That's a shitty f**king situation. I certainly don't think every child should be subjected to them regardless of their medical issues. If the vaccination is going to do more harm than good, that's the only time I'm okay with not vaccinating a child.
Most of the anti-vaxxers I know wear tinfoil hats.
3. Binge drinking culture could be nipped in the bud if doorman actually did refuse to let people in when pickled, or barman actually did refuse to serve well liquored punters. Preloading is one thing, young adults are preloading to the point of blitzkeig.
I found it funny how much RSA training drilled into us this 'no service for drunk people' thing. On any given night at the Planto or the Greenie up here, I'll see a dozen or more people who should have been refused service and bounced hours ago. Myself often included.
It's all lip service.
