Grandmothers

Grandmothers Blame Liberal Parenting

Grandmothers blame “liberal parenting” as the reason for the rude and lazy children being raised today.

  • Survey shows children ignore common courtesies
  • Decline of family meal causes bad table manners
  • Scrapping strict school rules also blamed

 

A decline in traditions like sitting down to eat dinner together and using common courtesies such as ‘excuse me’ stems from lazy parenting, according to a survey of grandmothers. They also blame Liberal parenting which in their view is obsessed with children expressing themselves and this is killing-off good manners.

They also blamed bad behaviour at school on the axing of old rules which saw children sit at desks all day and stand respectfully when a teacher entered the room. Now are the days of free play, montessorie, circle time….

The grandmothers believe that good manners can only be learned by example, with many 21st century parents failing to provide the same disciplinary boundaries they had.

Results of the study of 100 grandparents by website Grannynet, revealed just 54 per cent of children now sit down to eat dinner with their families at least once a day.

This was a down from 92 per cent of grandmothers when they were growing up and 87 per cent when they were raising their children.

Bad habits at dinnertime proved a particular bugbear for many of those surveyed.

Today just 49 per cent of children ask if they can leave the table at the end of a meal, compared to 89 per cent of grandparents when they were growing up and 80 per cent of parents during their childhood.

However just 37 per cent of children today say ‘excuse me’, before interrupting someone, a disappointment to the 82 per cent of grandmothers polled who did so during their childhood.

Meanwhile, the number of children writing thank-you letters has dropped dramatically, from 86 per forced to do so when grandparents were young to just 35 per cent today.

Grannynet founder Verity Gill said: ‘This survey has revealed some interesting reactions.

‘What we’ve found is that there has been a real shift in what polite manners mean to children in modern times today compared with what was expected of their mothers and grandmothers.

Maybe a question of ‘modern’ polite nowadays not being the same as polite from “the old days”.’

What do you think? Are our children today ruder? lazier? impolite? and are the “liberal parents” maybe to blame?

culled from MailOnline
Picture courtesy: bbgc
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