Beware of the police, they want your kids to become criminals.
Jibber Jabber , Kids & Parenting Add commentsI recently came across this shocking article which made my blood boil.
Mother trailed by policeman and warned by council for telling off son at checkout
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1226056/Mother-trailed-policeman-warned-council-telling-son-checkout.html#ixzz0WvxoDr1b
It beggars belief doesn't it, clearly they are too lazy to investigate all those real crimes and this is exactly the reason why more and more kids are hanging about outside off licenses, swearing and being abusive to the public and generally growing up to be thugs and criminals before they are even teenagers, thus making even more cases for the police and social services to ignore.
Judging by the growing number of incidents like the above one, this is the type of behaviour that the police and social services condone and are encouraging by their actions. Obviously by denying teachers and parents the ability to teach any kind of moral values or boundaries to their children or using any kind of discipline for fear of the repercussions they must have some sick dreams of a future like "escape from new york" rather than the utopian society that most dream of.
It certainly seems that the average social services worker or police officer is completely clueless about children if they think all parents should be calm and collected all the time and that all children will simply do as their told if you just ask them nicely. I think it should be a requirement that anyone who desires to work in this field should have some real world practical experience and I can't believe that isn't the case already. Give them a couple of unruly kids to look after 24\7 for a month and see what happens, or at the very least it should be a requirement that they have had kids of their own. Then perhaps they will realise that most parents lose their temper as a matter of course and make idle threats to their kids just to shut them up. Someone who really does smack the crap out of their kids is hardly likely to shout about it in a public place.
Sure we all see parents losing their rag in the supermarket and initially we may think they are crazy or going way OTT, but then if you are a parent yourself you realise that the kid has probably been winding them up all day and the parent has simply run out of patience, and that is probably exactly what you look like to everyone else when you lose your rag as well.
Sure it is great to think that the police and social services are looking out for the welfare of our kids as we certainly don't like to think of those poor children like baby P out there who are being abused, I know that any stories of that nature in the news always bring a tear to my eye, but I for one do not think that is happening when you take cases like "Baby P" where there was some real and obvious abuse that was totally ignored because they are wasting time victimising innocent people who have clearly done nothing wrong and wont even admit when they have made a mistake and continue to push the matter. One can only presume that it takes up less of their time and requires less paperwork than investigating real crime or abuse cases.
I think these days you need to be more scared of the police or social services than you do of the criminals. At least a burglar is only going to take your stuff and not your kids.
Nov 15, 2009 at 6:03 PM Well put, Russ. My blood boiled too and as a parent it's made me doubley paranoid about what I do and say when out in public with my naughty 3 year old. I can ask her until I'm blue in the face to stop picking sweets off the shelf, swapping items from different shelves around, screaming "I want [insert random item here]", or blowing raspberries at other shoppers. Is that behaviour more acceptable than a parent threatening their child with a smack or even a raised voice?
When I was a child it would have warranted a smack bottom while other shoppers glance over as if to say "about time". These days with political correctness and all that those actions would probably result in a parent being dragged into a police van and the child taken into care. How can things have changed so quickly in society? It's probably the last 15 years that have seen very reasonable discipline looked upon as something as nasty as torture.
So shall I let my child run riot in shops and tell her "go ahead dear, it's your human right to do whatever you like." Who honestly wants their child to grow up as a yob or ladlette that has no respect for anyone, no manners or self discipline - pretty much like a lot of kids these days in Britain. Hopefully the majority aren't like that, but it does feel that way when you see kids behaving badly in public or you open a newspaper and read about a 3 year old battering another child a dozen times with a car jack, or a young man urinating all over a war memorial.
And the ColdFusion angle is...? ;-)