" The trend of oversharing kids ' life on social media . It ’s like you ’re turning their childhood into a reality show . "
It seems like everyone and their mother has opinions on the best way to parent, which is why Reddit userThe_WhiteMantisasked,“What parenting ‘trend’ you disagree with?”
1.“I hate the trend of people dressing up their baby girls in outfits a woman should be wearing. No little girl should be wearing a body suit, ripped jeans, crop tops, or low-rise bell bottoms. It gives me the creeps.”
2.“Thesad beige momtrend. If you want to make the rest of your home sad and beige, that’s up to you. But please let your child’s nursery have some color for their own development and well-being!”
— Ok_Procedure4993
3.“Lawnmower parenting. They not only hover over their own kids but also mow down anyone who does something they don’t like. They’re the ‘you can’t wear that shirt where my kids might see it’ and ‘you’d better allow my child into this 21+ establishment, don’t show them anything inappropriate’ type.”
4.“Letting the tablet raise them.”
— ModsR - Ruining - Reddit
" Too much screen time is tough for me , and I did n’t have access to concealment 24/7 until I was a full grown adult . Think about how bad it is for a developing nous . "
— Anonymous
5.“This is a growing trend in the homeschooling community. The parents are completely neglectful of actual education and basically let the kid do whatever they want. They don’t follow a standardized curriculum, claiming they’re ‘letting kids be kids.’ If your kid can barely read at 10 years old, you’re setting them up to fail as an adult.”
6.“Unschooling was the worst concept that has ever been introduced. Almost none of the kids are going to benefit from that practice.”
— meganfrau
7.“In Korea, there’s a trend of putting kids through private education to the point where they have no life beyond school. If they manage to get into college, they have no idea what they’re doing. Life goal? Career goal? It’s whatever their parents want them to do. To Korean parents, kids are an extension of themselves (I’m sure some other cultures can relate to this phenomenon.)”
8.“Not helping kids with conversation skills. Conversation SHOULD be back and forth between two people — with no phones involved.”
— Fun_Intention_5371
9.“Helicopter parenting. As a kid, my parents would always intervene in everything I did. I became way too reliant on them. My parents did what they thought was best, but it ended up really screwing me later in life. I’m still in the process of figuring out what it means to be independent and how to fight for myself.”
10.“I can’t stand when parents push their kids to become athletes. It’s one thing to expose your kid to a sport, they enjoy it, and you let them keep doing it. But it’s a completely different thing when you see kids in elementary school doing training camps.”
— jimfish98
11.“The trend of oversharing kids' lives on social media. It’s like you’re turning their childhood into a reality show.”
12.“I hate the ‘Autism Mom’ thing. The shirts, the unsolicited ‘advocacy’ — it seems like an attention-seeking thing to me. My kid has autism, ADHD, and anxiety, and it takes approximately five seconds around him to notice. I will fight for him always, but I won’t use him as a badge either.”
13.“Parents not watching their own behavior when it comes to screen time, frustration tolerance, discipline, etc. You’ve got to dig deep and figure out how to role model the behaviors you want your kids to do. If you are on your phone 24/7 and throw a fit every time the slightest thing inconveniences you, your kids aren’t going to do anything different.”
— kimtenisqueen
14.“Never saying no to your child.”
15.“I work in children’s healthcare. The kids we see have chronic conditions that require them to do daily treatment and a lot of them don’t like the treatment. You would not believe the number of parents who tell us their kids never do their treatments because ‘they don’t like it.'”
" Like , what do you imply ? ! Of course they do n’t like it . They do n’t sympathize long - condition consequences yet . You ’re the parent ! separate them no , they ca n’t just skip discourse ! "
— oishster
16.“The Easter baskets kids get now. It is like a mini Christmas. It’s just disgusting how materialistic we’re making our children, especially in a world where many people can’t even buy enough groceries for their family.”
17.“Surveillance and tracking apps. It gets really sad when kids get to college and their parents know what they’re up to 24/7.”
18.“Not (sensibly) challenging their comfort zone. How are they supposed to grow self-confidence when they’re never challenged?”
19.“Not teaching children proper manners. ‘Please’ and ‘thank you’ go a long way in this life.”
20.“Soft parenting. I’m on board with no hitting, of course. But kids still need to have boundaries around what they can and can’t do.”
21.“Letting them go on YouTube Kids unrestricted. It is NOT safe to watch without an adult nearby listening in. There’s plenty of fetish, gross-out, and mature content on there that slips through the cracks.”
— metalflygon08
22.“Child vlogging. It’s weird! And I feel like things are going to blow up in the parents’ faces when the kids become adults.”
23.And finally, one user made a great argument for using nuance as a parent: “It seems like there can’t be a happy medium for most people. Either they let the kids run the household, or they’re so afraid of being ‘soft’ that they borderline abuse their kids to make them ‘strong.'”
— PersonMcNugget
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