Are we too soft with our kids?

[Clevercat]

Do you feel like you are allowed to still dictate what happens with your children, or do you feel the PC brigade have put us in a situation where the kids know they have the upper hand?

Do you feel behaviour is dealt with effectively at your childs school? Or have the PC brigade gone mad when
offering little Johnny twenty chances to ''make the right choice''

[Tag]

I've none of my own (not that I know of anyway), but I'm not soft on other people's children.

If when visiting friends, I see their children are impolite or rude I don't hesitate to correct the offending child.   I wouldn't let anyone else speak to me or behave that way around me, and there's no way I'd let a child do that either.

Very often they think they're playing or it's cute or funny - so they have to be told it's wrong, else how otherwise would they learn?

[Monica Reyes]

I am very strict as a parent I cant help it, its how I was bought up.

The schools are far too namby pamby IMO,there shoudl be proper punishment instead of the threat of'behave or your name will go on the black cloud!' yeah right, that will set them on the right path,lol

I think my kids probably think I am hard on them, but I know that I can take them anywhere and they will behave, even despite their disabilities.

I run a tight ship,lol

[Mike Hawkins]

Give any child too much freedom and you will develop a selfish little thug (or worst still. a banker)!!

[Clevercat]

I was told recently that I had damaged my son  because I had been over protective.   When I say I was told, I mean by a professional person within child care..........

Apparently if he wants to just storm out of the house late eve in the dark I was to just let him go..........

''Let him go and let off steam, he will come back''

Oh and also, ''If he refuses to go up to his room when told to, ''just ignore it''!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I can quite clearly tell you, the world has gone bleeding mad.

[Monica Reyes]

These so called professionals often know nothing about child rearing, quite often they dont even have a child of their own, so its all guesswork or from a book.

Over the years we have met so many professionals, most are great but there is always the odd one that seems to disgree with everything and think that their way is the right way, when , if you use their ideas, they never work or are unworkable or even dangerous.