Enough said! SADLY this is sooo true!! One of the reasons why playgrounds are empty, you wont see kick the can beeing played by kids the latest gadgets replaced it. My nephew dont own cellphone! Hes in Engineering program in high school. Hes 15 yrs old. ==== A generation of snowplough parents have pampered their children so much that they are driving a mental health epidemic among todays teenagers, a leading Australian child psychologist says. Dr Michael Carr-Gregg, a high-profile parenting expert who spoke to teachers and parents at The Illawarra Grammar School this week, said many Generation X parents had made their childrens lives so easy that the kids were left with no way to handle problems or overcome obstacles on their own. This generation of parents just push all the obstacles out of the way and try to make life as simple and as easy as possible for their kids, he said. On the face of it, thats admirable because we all want the best for our kids, but it teaches them absolutely nothing about resilience and creates immense vulnerability when they leave home and go into the big wide world. A snowplough parent drives their child right to the school gate instead of making them catch a bus or walk to school. They buy their children all the latest gadgets and toys, wash, clean, cook and iron without making kids pitch in, and they make sure their sons and daughters only hand in meticulous homework and assignments. Dr Carr-Gregg blames this increasingly common parenting approach on guilt, caused by mothers and fathers not spending enough time with their children. Part of it is that youve got parents with much smaller sized families, [who are] less connected to extended families so there is less support, he said. The parents are time poor, they are guilty and they tend to indulge their kids too much.
Posted on: Mon, 12 Jan 2015 16:41:40 +0000
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