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#3981165 - 07/15/14 01:43 PM Is This Common Parenting in 2014?  
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I saw this "supposed to be funny" post a mother supposedly made on her sons facebook account. Is this common parent / child language nowadays? I see things like this a lot. I would NEVER have used the F word with either my parents or my children.

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#3981166 - 07/15/14 01:51 PM Re: Is This Common Parenting in 2014? [Re: Dogsbd]  
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#3981169 - 07/15/14 01:56 PM Re: Is This Common Parenting in 2014? [Re: Dogsbd]  
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I see a lot of stuff done by parents today that honestly shock me so crud like this seems par for the course.

For example, the number of parents who take their small children (ie between the ages of like 3-8) to see inappropriate movies at the theatre. I remember when I went to go see "Man of Steel" and I saw a lot of small children in the theatre. IMHO, the amount of violence in that film is inappropriate for kids that young.


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#3981175 - 07/15/14 02:13 PM Re: Is This Common Parenting in 2014? [Re: Dogsbd]  
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DP, sorry.

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looks very modernishy-phoney-windows eighty-tabletty like

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#3981176 - 07/15/14 02:13 PM Re: Is This Common Parenting in 2014? [Re: Dogsbd]  
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I hope it's not commonplace. I certainly would never do something like that to my children (9, 6, and 3) and I can't imagine any of my friends with children doing it either.

Personally, if my child had a social network account, unless I was seriously worried about my child engaging in illegal/unsafe behavior (like some pedophile trying to set up a meeting) I wouldn't just trawl through their FB postings. It strikes me as an invasion of privacy.

What's more, it's hardly surprising that her son is talking #%&*$# about his mom to his friends because she didn't do something he wanted... it's all part of the self-centered rebellious teen phase and she shouldn't be stooping down to his level. It undermines her authority and, on a more practical level, it's not going to give her the kind of result she's looking for: she just looks like the snooping #%&*$# he probably tells all his friends she is. He will be more careful to close his FB account though.


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#3981179 - 07/15/14 02:21 PM Re: Is This Common Parenting in 2014? [Re: Dogsbd]  
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there's a girl I went to school with on my FB and I'm amazed at how she calls her 2 daughters out on FB. Terrible parenting IMO


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#3981180 - 07/15/14 02:22 PM Re: Is This Common Parenting in 2014? [Re: Cold_Gambler]  
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its "common" in some neighborhoods, in others, it'd never happen. Just like its always been, its just that the internet makes it seem more common as "everyone" has access to it.


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#3981181 - 07/15/14 02:26 PM Re: Is This Common Parenting in 2014? [Re: Dogsbd]  
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She seems to be concerned what her son's friends think of her, that's the first problem right there. Secondly, she doesn't have to explain anything to her son or his friends. Third, by calling him names she pretty much loses any moral authority she had. And lastly, neither Facebook nor any other social medium is the proper place for this.


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#3981188 - 07/15/14 02:34 PM Re: Is This Common Parenting in 2014? [Re: Dogsbd]  
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I like it when my kids talk about me on Facebook. Enough to make a grown man cry with pride biggrin

#3981191 - 07/15/14 02:35 PM Re: Is This Common Parenting in 2014? [Re: Dogsbd]  
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It's pretty common I think. Forget FB, just go to the park or the mall and watch parents with kids....I'm gobsmacked


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#3981213 - 07/15/14 03:14 PM Re: Is This Common Parenting in 2014? [Re: Dogsbd]  
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Not to mention the dipsticks with small kids who can't put down their smartphones or tablets for a second to see to their children. I've seen it everywhere, in coffee shops, in hospitals, bus stops etc.
And often with their back turned too. attack
My old man, who isn't very outspoken normally, told my brothers wife to put away the phone and talk to her daughter for a minute.
I don't know if she liked it, but she did as he told her. biggrin


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#3981396 - 07/15/14 10:18 PM Re: Is This Common Parenting in 2014? [Re: Dogsbd]  
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Common? Unfortunately, yes. That doesn't make it correct though.

Still, if the child is like that, well, sometimes the fruit doesn't drop far from the tree, or some sort of saying like that.


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#3981472 - 07/16/14 01:19 AM Re: Is This Common Parenting in 2014? [Re: Dogsbd]  
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Sounds like a child raising another child.


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#3981478 - 07/16/14 01:32 AM Re: Is This Common Parenting in 2014? [Re: Dogsbd]  
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With both parents working now, the relationship seems to have changed from child/parent to tenant/roommate/landlord. Parents just aren't spending the same amount of time parenting as they used to. What the long term consequences of this may be, I don't know.


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#3981498 - 07/16/14 02:24 AM Re: Is This Common Parenting in 2014? [Re: Dogsbd]  
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Never followed the crowd and was lured to get a smart phone. Dumb phones are great. Especially
when the battery dies. That is how I love my phone. No ring at all. Darn work phone.

Sad truth out there. Go by any playground and watch the parents. There might be one parent there
with the sense to watch all the kids play. The rest of the parents are all so self absorbed in
their smart phones the world could go BOOM and they would not notice till they felt it. And even
worse, watch a kid try to get a parents attention. WOW, would be surprised at the reaction of some
of these low life`s who find their phone more important then their own kids.

Then in today`s world the Mall is a very interesting place to people watch, its more like counting
the people that don`t have smart phone then those that do. And walk into all kinds of stuff.

I only post on my 17 year old son`s facebook wall if posts something stupid, and that is almost
everyday. Told him if he would quit sharing that garbage I would stop commenting on it.


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#3981514 - 07/16/14 02:58 AM Re: Is This Common Parenting in 2014? [Re: Dogsbd]  
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Unfortunately, it's par for the course. I was saddened having my parents and a couple who is close to the family (The wife is the daughter of one of the second sets of Navajo Code Talkers), over half of the families were cussing at their kids.

The table next to us had a father tell his son, "Sit your @$$ down and eat." His son is only 6 or 7...


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#3981540 - 07/16/14 03:39 AM Re: Is This Common Parenting in 2014? [Re: Dogsbd]  
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It's too common. My wife saw a young child about 3 on a small bike about 30 feet behind it's stupid mother, who was pushing a baby carriage. Should mention this was in a grocery store parking lot. The kid was crying for it's "mother", who was not looking back. The kid was almost hit by a car, luckily the driver saw the kid at the last moment. My wife had to wave down 2 cars coming into the parking lot, as the drivers would have a very difficult time seeing this kid. Mommy kept on marching to.....the liquor store ...of course. My wife gave her an earful. The dumb cow just acted surprised and said sorry to my wife. WTF ??

I don't use or like Facebook.
Some parents, especially mothers I find, don't seem to grow up. Women in their mid to late 30's acting like they are their kids friends and not parenting. It's a sad state. We are very selective with who are kids can hang out with. I don't care if I'm not cool to my kids, I'm not suppose to be.

I am guilty of cursing once and awhile. But it's my only vice I tell my wife. I have to have one. biggrin

#3981570 - 07/16/14 04:32 AM Re: Is This Common Parenting in 2014? [Re: JimK]  
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Originally Posted By: JimK
Never followed the crowd and was lured to get a smart phone.


My wife figured out how to save a few dollars in the budget, when my cell phone (old-fashion flip phone) contract expires she's going to get me a Jitterbug. A cheaper phone/service can now sit in my nightstand for weeks on end. smile I do like having a cell phone when I'm out alone, which is very seldom.

Facebook, I have only a vague idea what it is and even less so with Twitter. Nothing for me, I already post enough personal stuff here (but ONLY here).



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I do like Twitter.

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I do like Twitter.




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The rusty wire that holds the cork that keeps the anger in
Gives way and suddenly it’s day again
The sun is in the east
Even though the day is done
Two suns in the sunset, hmph
Could be the human race is run
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