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Originally Posted by The Ditch
Lousy parenting can be a factor because young kids emulate their parents quite a bit. I'll give some my own anecdote, I had a cousin with a kid who was a total hellraiser and was so bad that the school said they needed to do counseling with the kid. They all thought he had ADD/ADHD or some other problem, but it turns out that the parents were setting bad examples and there were no boundaries or structures or healthy activities. They did a total 180 and now their child is doing much better. I think everyone is so quick to put labels on everyone to use as a crutch for personal responsibilites, and it also takes away from the people that legitimately have problems.
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Well, I'd agree with you here as a point. I think there are a lot of rushes to medicalize things that aren't necessary medical but can be resolved through behaviour, training, etc.
But we should agree to disagree here. I still don't think this has anything to do with what happened in the story we're discussing here. I'm not saying string the teacher up... yet. We still need to hear her side of the story. But poor parenting doesn't explain, or justify, or excuse, or have anything at all to do with a mean-spirited exercise of power against a 5 year old.