These families on Supernanny are absolutely ridiculous. Seriously they can't control 3 yrs olds??? Parenting today is just crazy. Back in the day, kids did not act like this. I was raised in the 70's/80's and if I did anything like these bratty kids do I would have been knocked into the middle of next week. Why can't these parents control these children. It makes no sense.
shareI agree. I just watched a part of one episode; mother and two boys live with grandma and grandpa and the boys are violent, badmouthed, and rule the roost. When one boy ran across the room and kicked grandma and she just gave her version of "No, no, you do not kick," I had to turn it off in disgust. My son is 30 this year, and if he (or his cousins who lived with us for a while) had tried that, at any age, he would have found himself laid out on his ass. I'm not totally pro spanking, but sometimes a kid needs the flat of the hand across the butt once or twice. As I told my son a time or two, "If you don't want to listen to my voice, I'll have to get your attention another way." I will admit I've gone farther than that a time or two. I slapped my cousin's kid across the mouth once, but I don't care what your age; when you spit in my face, I move before I think.
shareWell you also didn't used to have so many "single moms", I am so sick of hearing about them like it is a badge of honor.
Try birth control. They get knocked up by some guy who is in the wind and they think they're a special class of people.
What a drain to have adult children come back with their kids, when you should be enjoying some peace and quiet.
Yes there are single moms out there like that. However there are also guys out there who bolt out the door the minute she is pregnant or.
It goes both ways.
Damn the man, save the Empire!
I was working for the very enemy I thought I was fighting.
jac, there have always been single mothers; men have always had the option of being, as you put it, in the wind. It just wasn't always spoken of. I was a single mother for most of my son's early years. His father moved cross country and because of circumstances beyond our control couldn't come back for several years. We were married for a little over a year before he died. So I don't see it as a "badge or honor," it just was.
shareI agree 100%. So sick and tired of single moms whinning about everything under the sun.
shareBecause all children are special, unique little butterflies who have the right to express themselves in any way they so choose.
Or at least that's the class of parenting that's coming out now. If you discipline your child, you are stifling them. If you discipline them with a pop or a spank, you are abusing them. If the coach cuts them from the team, he is hurting him. Yada yada. That's why you've got a crop of kids/teenagers today who know no respect for authority but know entitlement up one side and down the other.
Well, parents and teachers (which is what I am) were respected when we were growing up. There was NO such thing as children running the roost.
I was raised in the 80's mostly but with the 50's mentality, which is what I think we need to bring back to parenting in the USA.
The sheer fact that kids are allowed to run the roost because parents are afraid of evoking discipline on their child/ren. The millisecond a child says "I'm gonna tell!!" The hands go back into pockets and the kids get lifted off their father's laps. We have got to regain the control the relationships!!!!
Oh Thank you God! Thank you so BLOODY much!Basil Fawlty
I don't get where they find these families, either! Husband and wife that are barely in their 30's living in a gorgeous McMansion with 4000 square feet, yet they seem just as dumb as a rock and totally clueless and the kids terrorize them!
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