One of the places you see this is teachers attempting to deal with students who have issues parents never dealt with in the home , and they are expected to “fix” kids who show up broken . Whether that's the result of “gentle parenting” , or not being engaged, or an inability to say “no” and set boundaries , teachers are now expected to take on far more than education. This really goes to what is happening in families.
Agree completely Kristin. "the adults are the problem." I'm a boomer woman, no children. Yet believe humans are a product of their environment and parents have one of the most important responsibilities for humanity. This has always been true and is even more so now with the deluge of external influences that did not exist before the internet and exacerbated by social media. I value your insight into 90s TV programming "for kids", gave me new awareness from someone who lived it.
So glad I grew up before this. I watched the Brady Bunch and Star Trek. Also occasionally Lost in Space and Mission Impossible. And Saturday morning cartoons. The US underwent a crass-ification starting in the 1990s.
My daughters were always annoyed that I did not let them watch Disney channel and others. I saw then that the shows were just encouraging kids to act obnoxiously. I have no regrets. As time went on, the wholesomeness of children's entertainment went further and further down the tubes. There were no morality lessons in any of it. This is the nature of Hollywood. Push the boundaries as far as you can so that the goal posts of humanity keep being moved in a negative direction.
One of the places you see this is teachers attempting to deal with students who have issues parents never dealt with in the home , and they are expected to “fix” kids who show up broken . Whether that's the result of “gentle parenting” , or not being engaged, or an inability to say “no” and set boundaries , teachers are now expected to take on far more than education. This really goes to what is happening in families.
teachers should just say no, and stay in their lane.
Agree completely Kristin. "the adults are the problem." I'm a boomer woman, no children. Yet believe humans are a product of their environment and parents have one of the most important responsibilities for humanity. This has always been true and is even more so now with the deluge of external influences that did not exist before the internet and exacerbated by social media. I value your insight into 90s TV programming "for kids", gave me new awareness from someone who lived it.
So glad I grew up before this. I watched the Brady Bunch and Star Trek. Also occasionally Lost in Space and Mission Impossible. And Saturday morning cartoons. The US underwent a crass-ification starting in the 1990s.
My daughters were always annoyed that I did not let them watch Disney channel and others. I saw then that the shows were just encouraging kids to act obnoxiously. I have no regrets. As time went on, the wholesomeness of children's entertainment went further and further down the tubes. There were no morality lessons in any of it. This is the nature of Hollywood. Push the boundaries as far as you can so that the goal posts of humanity keep being moved in a negative direction.