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A friend of my sister's
A friend of my sister's teaches kindergarten. The children are from solid middle class homes. She said you cannot believe how many children start school and do not even know their colors - like red or blue.
or how to wipe their own
or how to wipe their own backside.
Ugh. Reminds me of BM. She
Ugh. Reminds me of BM. She never made the skids do or learn anything because "they're just chiiiiiiildren." She honestly believed they'd magically get their shit together when they became adults. Alrighty then!
WTF - sounds like SO
WTF - sounds like SO lol.....
sorry no but you can only teach a child till age 7, and if you do not teach him to respect people and basic hygiene he will never learn it self.
Yeas when they are teens they are another breed, not human at all, but in their early 20's they fall back on the basic principles and values you as a parent taught them when they where younger. (Oh you keep on teaching from 7-20, but hell they ignore you lol)
I substitute teach
I substitute teach sometimes.
I'm probably going to catch flack for this but, I don't think it is 100% bad parenting, I think a good percentage of this should go in the bad breeding category. In the town I live in, so many of these parents are uneducated, never married, very young, on welfare. They can have as many kids as they want because they are on the gov't teet. They come from a long line of losers. Lazy, unintelligent, sociopathic.
It's like Idiocracy come to life.
hummm it's bad parenting
hummm it's bad parenting through generations...... thus 100%..
the world evolved but some human beings did not thus they do not teach their children anything, they think it's 1812 where it was okay to get married at 14 have a wagon full off babies, they can live of the land... (there's just not living of the land anymore)
We see it allot on Mars, poverty galore but hell they pop babies out every 11 months and out of 8 kids there might be 7 fathers involved, not paying maintenance, not supporting nothing...it's the governments problem, if the government does not want to pay they go on strike, burn tires in roads, through rocks at cars and burn down schools...