Not exactly surprising, and certainly a broader trend than the UK. Lots of parents aren’t really parenting. There’s parents who just let kids do whatever and ‘they will tell you when they are ready’. That soft approach just doesn’t work for things like this.
There’s also plenty of parents who see school as glorified childcare, and that teaching them even basic life skills should be the school’s job, not the parents.
It’s certainly disconcerting. One would hope that parents who CHOOSE to have a child would actually want them to grow up well and properly prepared for life’s challenges. Instead, kids are more like Instagram fodder, something to be shown off but otherwise nog given much attention.
There’s parents who just let kids do whatever and ‘they will tell you when they are ready’.
I mean, having been through this with 5 kids now, that’s kinda what you have to do. But only to a point. There needs to be at least some progress at the very least by the time they get to preschool age. My youngest sleeps in pullups, but during the day he wears “training” undies and happily uses the toilet all on his own, both pee and poop.
Getting him to wash his hands though, that’s a whole different ball game.
Not exactly surprising, and certainly a broader trend than the UK. Lots of parents aren’t really parenting. There’s parents who just let kids do whatever and ‘they will tell you when they are ready’. That soft approach just doesn’t work for things like this.
There’s also plenty of parents who see school as glorified childcare, and that teaching them even basic life skills should be the school’s job, not the parents.
It’s certainly disconcerting. One would hope that parents who CHOOSE to have a child would actually want them to grow up well and properly prepared for life’s challenges. Instead, kids are more like Instagram fodder, something to be shown off but otherwise nog given much attention.
Very scary indeed.
I mean, having been through this with 5 kids now, that’s kinda what you have to do. But only to a point. There needs to be at least some progress at the very least by the time they get to preschool age. My youngest sleeps in pullups, but during the day he wears “training” undies and happily uses the toilet all on his own, both pee and poop.
Getting him to wash his hands though, that’s a whole different ball game.