I can understand 1 or 2 kids in a classroom of 30 being this kind of discipline problem-hey, selfish stupid people breeding is a fact of life.

My problem is that by the time they reach high school, their behavior problems have inhibited their academic progress to the point that they get tracked together into a class like the one I have been forced to teach this year.

What is the logic of puting all of the children who have proven through tests that they have no learning disability or language barrier to account for being 7 years or so below grade level, but discipline files taller than they are into the same class?  I don’t necessarily think we should REALLY try this, but what would be wrong with just expelling them from the public schools altogether after they’ve proven to be a waste of time & $?  Some kids just have more of a chance to learn from the school of hard knocks than from our public school coddling.

Just picture putting 25 of them in a classroom together…It’s almost enough to convince me that retroactive abortion isn’t such an immoral idea.  These last few months teaching 2 such classes has really shocked the hell out of me.  Calling home is exactly like that video- I’ve actually overheard several such arguments when I’ve called parents.

Badmouthing is quite natural to hot-tempered people and it cannot be removed from their system. Even if one tries to remove elements to prevent these occasions, he/she will still be able to learn these things.

Most badmouthers do not know what they say. Well they can speak “MOTHERFUCKER

The issue here is not what the child said or did. It is that the child was allowed to act this way and the child knew he was allowed to act this way.

Whether or not “badmouthing” is a behavior that can be removed, I’m inclined to take it that such a behavior and other related behaviors are a result of environment as opposed to genetics. This behavior was learned and not effectively discouraged, the only ingredients needed for nurturing a negative behavior. The onus of that is upon the parent.

Badmouthing is quite natural to hot-tempered people and it cannot be removed from their system. Even if one tries to remove elements to prevent these occasions, he/she will still be able to learn these things.

Most badmouthers do not know what they say. Well they can speak “MOTHERFUCKER” but does he know it? He just says it because it is a bad word and the best way to release one’s anger is to say the BADDEST* word he knows.

Regardless of age, one cannot prevent the use and misuse of bad words. Even if you don’t expose him/her in the reality of badmouthing, that person will still use another word that has an equivalent level of anger as a bad word.

It’s not the video game’s nor the parent’s fault. We can never blame anyone or anything that might have caused him to say this. It is quite better to expose him than to keep him from learning** [like reverse psychology]. And maybe, you could even teach him what that word really means. But it is still necessary to correct him, in a way not to misuse the word as an everyday thing.

* – slang word: worst
** – Don’t follow my suggestion if you cannot take the risk

15 minutes alone with him… please… and give me a leather belt…

and when I’m done, I’m gonna have a long talk with his mother about how to raise a child.

This video made me so upset I went and spanked my kid just to prove a point. He’s only 14 months so I couldn’t explain that I was spanking him in leiu of that brat on the video, but he’ll understand someday.

No problems playing it back on my end, Ingolfson. It uses Google Video Player, though, so if you don’t have that installed then that might be why you can’t view it.

Ugh. Another propriertary format that I will have to download a program on my drive with undeclared content and maybe even registry entries for?

I’ll pass. At least until I get back down to NZ and into an internet cafe there.

I found this sound clip both disturbing and depressing.  I agree with arc_legion in his analysis of this parent-child relationship. There is some serious dysfunctionality going on in that family (single parent or not).

It breaks my heart that almost any ‘ole nincompoop can get pregnant and bring a child into this world. 

But for those who can’t, adopting or fostering takes multiple criminal checks and the highest standards of quality material environment to be created and maintained before you can be considered. 

Then there is the money factor… if you don’t have some (or sign your soul away to get loans)… you aren’t allowed the privilege of being a parent.  *sigh*

Parenting is tough… hard…. complicated… and no parent (like no person) is perfect. However, there are those who try to do their best and actively work towards growing into better parents as time ebbs by… Then there are those who scream for $50 or having a 9 year old demanding a “fucking glass of chocolate milk.” 

*Sigh*  Future… what future with aspiring leaders like this being raised to man the societal machine?

well I finally watched this video after about a day’s worth of anticipation, but I gotta say, it doesn’t sound like she treats the kid well either. I have never tolerated people screaming at me, unless I could scream and act generally hostile towards them too. In fact I remember being very, very judgemental since that was the way I was raised; my mother and her notions of right and wrong, my father and his notions of pride and shame.

I don’t like the kid OR the parent, and I’ll point fingers at both. It’s important to be consistent in your behavior around your kids, though, and holding double standards is a great way to get intelligent kids to blow you off for the mere lip-service you’re giving.

Can you imagine what he’ll be like at age 16?

Unfortunately, I can imagine what he’d be like at 16 and I can imagine what he’d be like when he is even older. This brat sounds exactly like many of the people I either had as roommates or who lived in the same dorm I did when I was in college. 18-22 years old and not a single one of them thought they should do anything to look after themselves (that is what roommates are for, cooking, cleaning, etc.) One guy in my Freshman dorm even spent entire nights in other peoples’ rooms using their computers or playing their video games while while they slept and got super pissed off if someone wouldn’t let him do this.