I Want To Talk About Parenting

Do you teach your children to respect adults? I mean to talk to them with the respect they deserve? I'd be mortified if I found my kids acted the way some kids do nowadays. My coworker was telling me he doesn't respect his teachers calling one a b*tch a** ni**** because she told him to give her his phone he was using during class. The rule is no phones out in class and he actually told her that and thinks he was in the right. I'd have beat his a** and made him turn it over telling her enjoy the phone he doesn't deserve it. That's not even the worst I've heard about kids nowadays and I tell kids did you earn respect? Nope you don't get to decide when you get respect you have to become an adult and then start to earn it. Being born doesn't mean you earned it unless your parents hate you so they don't raise you right. I tell my kids I better never hear them demand respect or not give it to all adults or they will regret acting stupid.

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MethDozer · M

My parents would have whooped my ass. Rightfully so.

DancingQueensie · 46-50, F

@MethDozer Yeah he was also telling me the teacher was out of line for daring to ask for his phone. Said a parent also went and fought a teacher for daring to ask a girl in a short skirt if she thought that was appropriate to wear. I said that mom would've found herself hurting and in jail for attacking me because her daughter wanted to dress like a whore and the girl would've been told what a whore she was from then on. He showed me how short the skirt was she shouldn't have been allowed on campus

MethDozer · M

@DancingQueensie It is ridiculous these days. Kids shouldn't even have cellphones in school grounds period.

DancingQueensie · 46-50, F

I feel the same way but at the same time if something was going on at the school I would want to know my child was safe. Last year my nephew was in high school a lot of things happened so texting him to make sure he was safe felt good. I caught the issues on Facebook news feeds. I love my kids but my sisters kids have a special place in my heart too and texting them feels good too

MethDozer · M

@DancingQueensie Cellphones doesn't make anyone safer. It is a total myth and delusion that they are some form of protection.

Seriously, parents have a better way of checking on.the safety of their kid at school. It has been in place since the 1920's...... Call the school.

MissSimpleMind · 41-45, F

@DancingQueensie I bet if all the kid's phones were checked at school - I doubt there would be much proof that any kid used it for an emergency reason (and by "emergency", I mean the school has an active shooter and your kid is locked in a classroom). On the flip side, I'm about 99% sure they would find hundreds of snapchats, useless texts, selfies, games open and other random useless things on a phone that a kid absolutely does not need it for during school hours (or ever, in my opinion.) I'm with MethDozer on this one - if you need to get a hold of your child, call the school. If you're texting your child during school hours asking them how their day is going or if they enjoyed their lunch or if they will get the mail on their way up the driveway ... consider yourself part of the problem.

DancingQueensie · 46-50, F

@MissSimpleMind You do know if there's something going on at the school they're not going to take time to answer the phones right? Yes lets answer the millions of phone calls instead of dealing with the situation makes so much more sense.

DancingQueensie · 46-50, F

@MethDozer Calling the school if there's an emergency does nothing because they won't have time to be answering the phone if it's an emergency. Hell I remember seeing on the news one day they were evacuating my friends daughters school it was all over the news but they didn't even bother informing the parents and it was almost time to pick up the students. I think there was a gunman near the school so they moved the kids to a different location. I called my friends phone to check that her daughters were okay and they had no clue what I was talking about. They were PISSED. A kid might need a cell phone but getting them a smart phones is your choice. My daughter knows if she wants a phone she has to earn the money to pay for it and it'll be a basic phone with talk and text period. She isn't allowed on social media and the school doesn't allow them to use the internet for anything not related to school work.

MethDozer · M

@DancingQueensie Cell phone does nothing for safety..fact.

MethDozer · M

@MissSimpleMind Common sense is strong in this one

MissSimpleMind · 41-45, F

@DancingQueensie If a situation is so big that there is no one answering the phones, then I assume many parents would be on their way to the school to see what is going on. And for the parents that aren't, I'd assume that news would be traveling pretty fast that they too would be finding a way to get there. I assume this would be the case in only extreme emergencies.

For the average school day, I'm about 99.999% sure you would be able to get a hold of someone at the school IF you really need to speak to your child. If they need to speak to you because they've had explosive diarrhea all day and need you to come pick them up then the simple solution is them calling you on a school phone. Isn't that what we did as kids? Seemed to work pretty good.