Milllenials are failing at raising gen alpha

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• MA

  @maryalice4704 · 2 years ago

  i’m sick of everyone pretending that missing 2 years of regular school hasn’t had MASSIVE CONSEQUENCES TO THESE KIDS DEVELOPMENT. like how can we expect them to be reading on grade level when they haven’t been properly taught for two years? and that they wouldn’t be emotionally and socially stunted??? there’s insane pressure for these kids to act like they haven’t missed TWO YEARS WORTH of crucial learning days.

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• RE

  @redhot654 · 2 years ago

  Overuse of daycare and technology (in my experience from working in schools) are big factors. A lot of families have both parents working so many hours that they are too tired to tackle the hard conversations

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• AS

  @ashleyduckworthyt3224 · 2 years ago (edited)

  “I can’t imagine parents brushing this off” EXCEPT THEY DO.  You have no idea how many 4th and 5th graders have told me their parents don’t care about what they do or consume. After discussing this with the parents, the response I get is “well you’re not doing your job then…” 😅UM MAAM YOURE KID IS WITH ME 5 hours a day and with you the other 19….They’re left alone while their parents veg out on their own screens. Kids are following in example… and it’s bad

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• HG

  @hgale624 · 1 year ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=guT_d7ENfDw&amp;t=710">11:50</a> if you have a classroom of 30 students and 20% don&apos;t know how to act, thats 6 kids. That is MORE than enough to make a room impossible to manage. You don&apos;t even have enough corners in the room to seperate them. Once you factor in their influence on their firends to that calculation, that is more than enough to drive a teacher out. A classroom of 30 students only needs 1 or 2 and the teacher now spends all their time managing behavior and can&apos;t focus on helping students with questions.

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• CA

  @catgeel264 · 2 years ago

  But really, 20% of permissive parenting... That&apos;s a lot! That&apos;s one in five kids not really being parented. Imagine one in five kids in your classroom not being parented, that&apos;s near impossible to manage!

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• AL

  @alteredcatscyprus · 2 years ago

  I’d rather not be friends with my parents and be able to read.

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• LA

  @lauraskeet9302 · 2 years ago

  As someone who has been teaching for over 8 years, heres the real issue. The extreme from good to bad are much more extreme. So it feels like the whole class is bad but its not, its just that the bad is so much louder than ot used to be and the good kids are so much quieter than they used to be. Our school wven labels the good kids as ghost kids because they just do what they are supposed to do and just so often get overlooked because we are so busy dealing with the bad behaviour from the 2 or 3 really extreme bad kids 🤷🏼‍♀️

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• CE

  @celeste3296 · 1 year ago

  Absolutely floored that the reccomended amount of non educational screen time for 2-5 year old is anything other than ZERO

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• AB

  @abrilakgun · 1 year ago

  As a millennial mum of two gen &nbsp;alphas: It&apos;s us, hi! We are the problem. It&apos;s us.<br>I have worked so hard to have respectful children well behaved-ish (they are still kids, they will have their moments) and kind children. And I achieved that while my son was little, even with his extreme ADHD. Now he started public primary school and he gets to hang out wjth the neighbors kids and OH MY GOD. They are so disrespectful, rude, unkind, they are constantly swearing... I am really struggling to keep our boundaries...<br>Our generation is messing up, BIG TIME.

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• BI

  @bizzyg5751 · 2 years ago (edited)

  You know it&apos;s bad when people are saying they hate preschoolers and kindergartners. People used to love how sweet preschoolers and kindergartners used to be. But now, when they open their mouths, what&apos;s coming out is not cute. It&apos;s not &quot;Kids say the Darnedest Things&quot;, but &quot;Who gave birth to all these effing Anti-Christs!&quot;

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• NI

  @NightimeInDeepSpace · 2 years ago

  As someone who does contract work for elementary schools, we interact with thousands per year. Kids today are weirder, less disciplined, unable to listen or follow basic instructions, way more kids with behavioural and actual mental problems. We&apos;ve been doing this for 20yrs and kids today are a completely different breed than back then and it&apos;s dire. What would&apos;ve been an average kid back then now stands out as exceptional because the rest are so bad.

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• JA

  @jayessbee76 · 1 year ago

  Ok, so the idea that schools are 100% responsible for teaching kids to read is absurd. Children should be exposed to books WAY before they enter school. Reading to children and exposing them to print, vocabulary, rhyme, etc. increases their potential for reading success. A child who is never read to will be exposed to 4662 words by age 5. A child who is read to daily will be exposed to almost 300,000 words by age 5, and children whose parents read 5 books a day to them will be exposed to almost 1,500,000 words by age 5. As a speech language pathologist who has worked in the field for 20 years, I can definitively say that children whose parents are involved in fostering their learning and development are significantly more successful in school than those whose parents believe it is the school’s job.

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