What's wrong with our youth? Is it a psychosocial disorder? Is it the parents?

[epchick]

Originally Posted by epchick

I don't know if any of you remember George Lopez's comedy routine about the Mexican mother vs the American mother in a store w/ the crying child. Race/ethnicity aside, this analogy holds true. You have more and more mothers nowadays who think that by taking away a "gold star" will teach their child how to improve their behavior.

So I was reading over Why you crying? by George Lopez again, so I thought i'd put the excerpt up that I was talking about earlier.

Kids these days talk back, man they talk BACK. I never talked back. You see Anglo kids in the store. "No, I wont."
"Now you listen to me, Dakota. I'm the parent here. You will. Believe me. Do you want a gold star when you get home, Dakota? Because you're going--you won't get The Lion King on DVD. You're not. Do you want a consequence?"

I love going to the stores and seeing parents actually get down on one knee. "Can you understand me, Tyler? This behavior is inappropriate. Well I need to aoplogize to you because I was using my outdoor voice inside."

My grandmother was old-school. She would pick me up. "Vamanos, cabron, we're going. Mira, como no, que no. Vamos. Mira, you don't want to go. Bullshit, you're going. Mira well, you know what, wait in the f--- car. Wait in the car. Wait in the car! Why you crying? Why you crying? Well, roll down the window so you can breathe."


The part I bolded is the way I feel many of these parents act towards their kids.