Are more parents raising enraged or/and insecure kids?

What we are seeing is a fairly natural progression of parenting ideas for the last 50 years.

Once upon a time (a few decades ago) parents were told to stop disciplining their children the way they were, instead to give minimal discipline and promote their child''s "self-esteem." It was claimed that this would make for better adults. If a child really didn't react well to that, then medicate them.

That's how things used to be, and society was beginning to decay because of it.

Now those kids have become parents and the idea has shifted further. Now "discipline" is considered a dirty word, or even abuse. It supposedly stifles individualism and hampers development. Now it is all about promoting self-esteem and helping them do and get what they want. If your child might not be how you want, then medicate to stupor.

What do you expect would happen from that?

We have parents who take their kids to a playground and do nothing or even laugh when their child pushes another one down to do what they want. We're creating a generation that thinks (because of their self-esteem teaching) that they are the most important person in the world. When you're the most important, everyone else is less valuable than you, and why should they be allowed to stand in the way of what you want?

You reap what you sow.

Because of all the technology.

You see, when kids (and adults) have less and less social interaction outside of the digital world; they become insecure on how to deal with their peers face to face.

All these; Nexus's, Smart-Phones, Ipads, Ipod-Touches, Nooks; are creating generations of spoiled, sheltered people with no social skills.

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nope the are afraid that the government will get them for the wrong kind of discipline now so they do nothing. Kids are growing up with no manners having kids with even less.