How has PARENTING changed over the years ?

The definition of a good - parent has changed a lot over the year. A good parent in modern nows can be referred to as a loving and caring mother/father, whereas in the olden days it would be a strict and disciplining parent.


So what are the main differences, and what are the disadvantages and advantages of both. Feel free to go in detail in your answer.How has PARENTING changed over the years ?
Simple. Parenting is ten times worse now.





Parents want to be friends with their kids now.


Which is fine but there are times you need be a friend and times when you need to take charge and be a parent.


It's SO important [especially nowadays] that children have rules because rules teach children they CAN'T always have their own way and they CAN'T always have everything they want. Boundaries teach children respect and respect teaches self worth. Parents now seem to have forgotten that.


The other day i was walking home from work when a boy who couldn't have been more than NINE wolf whistled at me and yelled ';fancy a good f**k love?'; I couldn't believe it.


T.V takes about 10% of the blame, video games about 10% and the rest is on the shoulders of parents.


How many times have you seen a nature programme where the young learns from the parents? The parent animal teaches it's young everything it needs. Human beings have forgotten we are still animals. Even if we don't like to think so.





You teach your children the values they will have in later life. If your child see's you doing something they think it's okay. My little brother is two and he overheard my Father say 'F**k.'


When i took a toy off him he yelled 'F**k at me. When i told him he can NOT say that he started giggling. He didn't understand it's wrong. Now we can't get him to stop.


It's tragic.How has PARENTING changed over the years ?
My parents always being good, helpful, exceptional, wonderful and many many more, I can never complaint.
Parents nowadays are either too strict or too understanding...kids grow up abused or catered to...at least that's what the media portrays...I don't have kids, so I don't have personal knowledge regarding this matter.
I think the children raised by the strict parents were much better behaved than the kids raised without a lot of discipline. Personally I believe that a pat on the butt when the child is young doesn't hurt anything except their pride. They need to learn the meaning of the word ';no'; when they're young. If they learn that at an early age, the parents don't need to ';childproof'; their house or put breakables out of reach.
Parents don't want to parent any more. They want the schools and everyone else to parent their kids. Most are also too busy with their own lives and interests to have anything to do with their kids. They don't want to teach right from wrong or consequences of actions. Kids rule the parents and run amok. Common courtesy is not taught or expected.





Oh, yeah, tons of parents are just babies themselves and rely on grandma and grandpa and the state to care for the kids.
i see it as we're more laid back and less strike then we use to be and parenting these days are like father or mother being best friends with there child