Increasingly I despair for the future of this country. We seem to have bred a generation of useless parents who have no clue how to raise children. But unlike past generations, I'll bet the useless ones have had soppy lessons at school on parenting skills or similar.
We have busy lives and a couple of mornings a week we like to have breakfast together in local cafes before we go our seperate ways to earn a crust. Increasingly it is becoming more and more a bad idea as kids increasingly run amok while their mothers sit twiddling their mobile phones. This morning the brats were running around, helping themselves from drinks cabinets, with no shoes on and looking as if they were still in pyjamas.
But it isn't all single mothers. On Saturday it was a couple who sat twiddling on their mobiles while their brat looked around screaming, probably for a little parental attention. Said parents looked blankly towards their offspring occasionally before carrying on with their mobiles. They only became animated when a friend turned up who they could boast to about how drunk they'd been the night before.
I think I'll be cooking breakfast at home in future.
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I heard an elderly gentleman at church say: "It's not hyperactive kids; it's inactive parenting".
This is what welfare does to people Gregg. It infantilises parents to the extent that they are no more mature than their kids.
More to the point, I get the feeling that an increasing number of parents no longer take the vocation seriously. Check out the supermarkets circa 6pm for further details!!
Great points chaps. These useless parents seem to use supermarkets as creches. They piss me right off.
They tend to oscillate between ramming chocolate down their kids' throats to shut them up, and giving them a good hiding in a public act of child abuse. Both are damaging and destructive...
They seem to oscillate between ramming chocolate down their kids' throats and hitting them in public. Nothing pisses me off like negligent parents in the supermarket!!
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