I can't believe that the need for Supernannyis becoming worldwide.
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- Date: 11 Apr 2006 05:35:13 -0700
Pampering parents turn blind eye to bad-mannered brats
Japan's do-nothing parents are turning their children into wild little
brats, according to Josei Jishin (4/18).
"I work part-time at a family restaurant. The other day, a couple of
mothers came into our place, each of them accompanied by two kids. As
soon as I gave them all their glasses of water and menus, the kids got
up and started dancing on top of the table -- without even taking their
shoes off!! The parents didn't even look like stopping them," a
waitress tells Josei Jishin. "They kicked over one of the glasses and
water spilled in all directions. I raced over with a towel to wipe it
up, when one of the mothers started telling me off. 'What the hell are
you bringing water out for kids anyway? Are you out of your mind? Let's
go,' she said, whisked up her kids and walked out of the restaurant. I
was left there wondering who was out of their mind."
A housewife using a bank ATM had a similar experience.
"When I went to take out some money, a little girl of elementary school
age stood beside me and stared at the screen of the ATM I was using.
When I gently told her not to peep at what I was doing, a bristling
voice suddenly spat out from behind me with a barb: 'If the kid was
smart enough to remember numbers that easily, I wouldn't have half the
troubles I do,'" the housewife says. "When I turned around, the mother
was giving me a really dirty look. I was just thinking that she should
be more worried about teaching her kid some proper manners rather than
staring daggers at me, when she spoke again: "Hurry up, will ya. I'm
waiting around here.' I was gobsmacked."
Nagisa Moriyama, a journalist specializing in education issues, says
that parents need to be more forceful.
"Kids play tricks and mess up. I'd like people to take a fairly soft
view toward this sort of thing. But, recently, there seems to be a lot
of little kids who get really hurt if somebody tells them off. There
are many mothers who strongly over-react to their children's hurt. I
think the biggest offenders are the children of Baby Boomers," Moriyama
tells Josei Jishin. "These mothers have grown up being told they could
do whatever they want, whenever they want, and they're not good at
coping with authority. Because the mothers don't know what it's like to
go without what they want, there's no way they can teach their kids
manners. I'd say the kinds of trends we're seeing with kids' bad
manners now are going to get a whole lot worse." (By Ryann Connell)
April 10, 2006
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