Parents Are Too Permissive with Their Children Nowadays

Few people would defend the Victorian attitude to children, but if you were a parent in those days, at least you know where you stood: children were to be seen and not heard. Freud and company did away with all that and parents have been bewildered ever seen. The child’s happiness is all important, the psychologists say, but what about the parent’s happiness? Parents suffer constantly from fear and guilt while their children gaily romp about pulling the place part. A good old-rearing manual would permit such barbarity. The trouble is you are not allowed even to shout. Who knows what deep psychological wounds you might inflict? The poor child may never recover from the dreadful traumatic experience. So too is that parents bend over backwards to avoid giving their children, complexes which a hundred years ago hadn’t even heard of. Certainly a child needs love, and a lot of it. But the excessive permissiveness of modern parents is surely doing more harm than good.
Psychologists have succeeded in undermining parent’s confidence in their own authority. And it hasn’t taken children long to get wind of the fact. In addition to the great modern classics on children care, there are countless articles in magazines and newspapers. With so much unsolicited advice flying about, mum and dad just don’t know that to do anymore. In the end, they do nothing at all. So, from early childhood, the kids are in changes and parents lives are regulated according to the needs of their offspring. When the little dears develop into teenagers, they take complete control. Lax authority over the years makes adolescent rebellion against parents the entire move violent. If the young people are going to have a party for instance, parents are asked to leave the house. Their presence merely spoils the fun. What else can the poor parents do but obey?
Children are hardly creatures (far harder than the psychologists would have us believe) and most of them survive the harmful in influence of extreme