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[–]RedEyedWarriorGay | Male | 🇮🇪 Irish 🇮🇪 | Antineoliberal | Cocks are Compulsory 16 insightful - 1 fun16 insightful - 0 fun17 insightful - 1 fun -  (6 children)

To be fair to the kids, we could discipline them and tell them to stay in their lanes. That would deal with their superiority complexes. It’s too late to chastise a boomer. However, most parents don’t discipline their children anymore. I get it, smacking is taboo, and t is now illegal in most of Europe and Latin America, but you can still take away their electronics or withhold their pocket money if they misbehave. If I had a teenager who acted like these woke kids, he’d only be allowed on the computer to do his homework until his behaviour improved.

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    [–]RedEyedWarriorGay | Male | 🇮🇪 Irish 🇮🇪 | Antineoliberal | Cocks are Compulsory 9 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 0 fun10 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

    You’ve brought up a good point about kids not getting attention from their parents. Children need to bond with their parents. A tablet or a television screen is not supposed to substitute a parent. Parents should spend at least one hour a day with their children, and on the weekends, devote half the day to their children. In fact, it benefits the children if one of the parents stayed at home, though too bad that’s a luxury because of the way the economy has been structured - both capitalism and communism suck, let’s try something else.

    Schools are definitely terrible. Which is why either one of the parents need to stay home, or the grandparents should be the primary caregivers. That way, someone in the child’s family can have the time to ask the child what he or she learned at school, and then confront the school or pull the child out of school. Teachers have way too much power, they need to be reigned in. Unfortunately, children are property of the state nowadays. It shouldn’t be this way. Homeschool your kids if you can. If you can’t, keep tabs on what you’re children are learning. And if a teacher "diagnoses" your child of having ADD or ADHD, DO NOT put your child on Ritalin or any of that other poison. Your child simply does not pay attention in class because it’s boring, and because children, especially boys, learn more by doing practical things than they do sitting in a stuffy classroom for six hours.

    And yes, children and teenagers are getting way too spoiled. But this won’t last forever. The world economy is going to crash and a world war can happen. After which point children won’t have the luxury of being able to go on tumblr all the time, because they will be too busy helping their families and communities rebuild society. Plus, hopefully people will realise where we went wrong, and make it socially unacceptable for minors under 18 to have smartphones, or social media accounts without parental monitoring.

    [–]lovelyspearmintLesbeing a lesbian 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

    And if a teacher "diagnoses" your child of having ADD or ADHD, DO NOT put your child on Ritalin or any of that other poison. Your child simply does not pay attention in class because it’s boring, and because children, especially boys, learn more by doing practical things than they do sitting in a stuffy classroom for six hours.

    Hard agree here, and may I add that it would be best to see if the ADD is present as a result of another disorder, or as a co-morbid condition. As someone with ASD, I've got elements of OCD and ADD because they're often co-occuring with ASD, but something like Ritalin isn't appropriate because my ADD is managed by making sure I've always got something to do or listen to to keep my brain stimulated. I can't imagine what I'd be like if they gave me Ritalin for school.

    [–]RedEyedWarriorGay | Male | 🇮🇪 Irish 🇮🇪 | Antineoliberal | Cocks are Compulsory 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

    I found it hard to listen in class. I got in trouble for it, but thankfully, I was never misdiagnosed and never put on poisonous meds. If I got my work done in class, I’d just read a book, which you were allowed to do, but it was rare. I took forever to do my homework.

    [–]lovelyspearmintLesbeing a lesbian 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

    I often got in trouble for reading when I finished my classwork early (which was most of the time during primary school), so no matter what I did, I was put into the corner for being disruptive because I'd start talking to other students since I wasn't allowed to read and I couldn't just sit there staring at a table.

    [–]RedEyedWarriorGay | Male | 🇮🇪 Irish 🇮🇪 | Antineoliberal | Cocks are Compulsory 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

    That’s child abuse. No wonder I didn’t get misdiagnosed. If I got my work done early, which was rare, I’d just read a book or work on other homework, because the teacher said if you had your work done early you can read a book.

    I did have a learning difficulty. Because of that, I was exempt from studying the Irish language in school, which was otherwise compulsory. Usually, I would go to another classroom where myself and a bunch of other students with learning difficulties catch up on subjects we were struggling with - it was called Resource. But I would come back to class 10 minutes before my classmates were finished learning Irish, so I read a book or did some homework I got in resource while I waited. When I was in my last year of primary school, I improved my typing skills on the computer. In secondary school, if resource was cancelled, I would go into the Irish class, sit quietly and either do homework or read a book. The Irish teacher didn’t mind and liked that I was quiet. I criticise the Irish school system a lot, but we do get some things right.