Are parents in control of their children?
March 18th 2008 02:41
My neighbour popped over yesterday with her kids for a while. Whilst I was sitting in the lounge room talking to the Mother, the kids were successfully ruining my house. I couldn’t believe it!! One of them was pouring dirt from my garden all over my front door and the other was throwing fruit from the tree at my TV screen. I was scared something was going to smash! The Mother just sat there and did nothing but giggle about it! I was mortified, but felt like it wasn’t my place to say anything because that wasn’t my role. After they left, it took me an hour to clean up the mess that was made.
It’s really true… there are parents out there who have different standards about how to raise their children. How I would expect a child to behave in someone else’s home was certainly different to the expectations of my neighbour. She was a lovely person, don’t get me wrong, but it was certainly obvious that she either was happy to let her kids “rule the roost,” or didn’t have the strategies to manage the situation. As a teacher, we learnt many strategies on how to manage children at uni and in the classroom, which in some ways I guess is an advantage, but until I have children myself I don’t think I will quite grasp as a mother would what it’s really like.
Have you ever had this kind of situation happen to you where someone else’s kids might have been driving you nuts and you didn’t want to discipline them because they were someone else’s children? I would love to hear some of your stories as I’m sure there are lots. I have so many examples as a classroom teacher, with children over the years kicking up tantrums and screaming until they would get their own way like they would’ve at home. These strategies didn’t work so well for them in the school environment and were quickly rectified, but the children would still continue to pull the same tricks at home because they got away with it. Sometimes I wonder if having parenting courses available at school would help at all? What do you think?
It’s really true… there are parents out there who have different standards about how to raise their children. How I would expect a child to behave in someone else’s home was certainly different to the expectations of my neighbour. She was a lovely person, don’t get me wrong, but it was certainly obvious that she either was happy to let her kids “rule the roost,” or didn’t have the strategies to manage the situation. As a teacher, we learnt many strategies on how to manage children at uni and in the classroom, which in some ways I guess is an advantage, but until I have children myself I don’t think I will quite grasp as a mother would what it’s really like.
Have you ever had this kind of situation happen to you where someone else’s kids might have been driving you nuts and you didn’t want to discipline them because they were someone else’s children? I would love to hear some of your stories as I’m sure there are lots. I have so many examples as a classroom teacher, with children over the years kicking up tantrums and screaming until they would get their own way like they would’ve at home. These strategies didn’t work so well for them in the school environment and were quickly rectified, but the children would still continue to pull the same tricks at home because they got away with it. Sometimes I wonder if having parenting courses available at school would help at all? What do you think?
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