please, i need your opinions

Personally speaking, most of todays parents have lost it in every way.
1. How can you explain how a parent who beats up a teacher for punishing his child?
2. Why won't a parent discipline a child at home when they fall out of line?
3. Why would a parent tolerate what his parents did not when he was a child?
4. What values are present day parents instilling in their children?
5. Why would parents not allow their children do basic house work?
6. Why would a young mother of these days not educate their daughters on decent ways of dressing?
7. Why would parents allow their underaged children have relationships?

I can go on and on.

Should enlightenment degarde us morally?

Let us search our hearts and begin to do the right thing.

Yes and no, depending on the parent.

I have a friend who is amazing with his children, nothing fazes him.  By all accounts my father was just as good with us when we were little.  On the other hand I know a single mother of two who makes it sound like she's taking on the world when her mother had nine of them and could handle them albeit strictly.

winnteam:

Personally speaking, most of todays parents have lost it in every way.
1. How can you explain how a parent who beats up a teacher for punishing his child?
2. Why won't a parent discipline a child at home when they fall out of line?
3. Why would a parent tolerate what his parents did not when he was a child?
4. What values are present day parents instilling in their children?
5. Why would parents not allow their children do basic house work? 
6. Why would a young mother of these days not educate their daughters on decent ways of dressing?
7. Why would parents allow their underaged children have relationships?

I can go on and on.

Should enlightenment degarde us morally?

Let us search our hearts and begin to do the right thing.

I don't know about you, but some of this stuff was going on when I was a child, perhaps the slightest difference being between the generations being that moral values have shifted significantly.   These same parents and children were a minority and a lot was done on the quiet, these children in turn become parents and we are now seeing these dysfunctional families in the public eye.

Each generation believes in making concessions for their children; we now have a generation of children who think the world owes them something and they don't need to take responsibility in return.  Despite what our parents taught us we are allowing external forces i.e. the media and their peer groups, to influence and bring up our children.

This isn't true for all, I know of many children who are level-headed (even if their parents aren't, lol).

Kind of, cos llistens more, and give the kids chance to talk, they are more engaged and dont deal with them with fear.

No.

Well you can only judge using your parents and comparing them to their Fathers And Mothers.

But honestly most parents this time around have LOST THE PLOT

ayomidej:

Well you can only judge using your parents and comparing them to their Fathers And Mothers.

But honestly most parents this time around have LOST THE PLOT

I dont think so, a real father these days are doing a great job, cos they listen more to the kids than those days

hmmmmmmn for discipline and moral values, I think parents of today have lost it. But thinking about some other things, hmmmn. Hi everyone!

Well i hate the way i was raised but i wont trade my parents for anything!

You'll have to categorize the factors by which you base this argument.

arkinses:

Well i hate the way i was raised but i wont trade my parents for anything!

You'll have to categorize the factors by which you base this argument.

Seconded

ha the previous generation always blames the younger ones.

Funny how nostalgia for the "good ole days" blinds our vision. Gone are the days of aristocratic parents. deal with it

ummmmmmmmmm ^^^

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@ayomide i,i agree wit u and children should also fear their parent.

I partially agree that that Parents of nowadays are worse than their fathers and mothers only in terms of morals. Modern day parenting has thrown morals to the winds. But when it comes to educating their children, modern day parents are ready to sell the world to give their kids the best education ever.
What about family planning, modern day parents are better organised in this aspect. Due to the condition of the world today with hunger ravaging millions of family, only a foolish couple would want to have as much as ten children but it was a great achievement for their parents. Population explosion is the result of that. They have too many children that they don't even recognise them. What about a man marrying as much as four wives. I am sure no man in this time with his right senses would put four women under one roof in the name of marriage. This day women are not as timid and uneducated as their mothers. This is just a few examples.

I really cant say.

Parents of today are working in a totally different environment from what the parents of old did.

Mobile phones, internet, cable t.v, e.t.c.

I hate it when I hear that modern parents have lost discipline and value, cos thats not true. Parents of today have learnt to treat their kids as individuals with emotions, thoughts and ideas. They have learnt to listen before making decisions. They have learnt to let the child grow as an individual while guiding them gently.

Parents of today have tried to develop a relationship with their kids. They have reduced the use of canes and whips and have resorted to other forms of punishment for wrong deeds.

I wouldnt totally discredit the methods of the parents of yesteryears cos their method actually did work for the era in which they raised their kids. Although it was forceful, brute and sometimes harsh, it did work. But the truth is that those method also did a lot of harm.

I would put it like this, they are doing just fine.

This is a typical example of the end products of today,s parenting.
Watch:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zaXPxxk3sKg
With the kinda parenting we got today from many homes, am afriad that our next generation wont be far rated from animals.

princekevo:

This is a typical example of the end products of today,s parenting.
Watch:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zaXPxxk3sKg
With the kinda parenting we got today from many homes, am afriad that our next generation wont be far rated from animals.

OMG! this is unbelievable

^^^^^^ Just saw the clip.
So why wont the mum disown the little dog?

ain't today's parents a product of older generation parents.

the older generation were hypocrites. they spoilt the world and left, leaving today's parents and enormous task of repairing it. but how possible is that?

I think today's parents are better because despite their parent's ignorance, hypocricy, wickedness(pple like hitler and our forefathers who lived on jazz), they are still trying to figure how to make the world a better place.

^^^ Well said, but the parents today have had to re-train themselves, else, many would end in jail for child abuse

iice:

Erhh even though my parents were strict in some areas. . .i wouldn't have wanted it any different.
Some parents these days are

We cant read thru a sealed lip, so talk jare.

Most of them are still Old School
They just can't wake into 2009

Okija_juju:

I hate it when I hear that modern parents have lost discipline and value, cos thats not true. Parents of today have learnt to treat their kids as individuals with emotions, thoughts and ideas. They have learnt to listen before making decisions. They have learnt to let the child grow as an individual while guiding them gently.

Parents of today have tried to develop a relationship with their kids. They have reduced the use of canes and whips and have resorted to other forms of punishment for wrong deeds.

I wouldnt totally discredit the methods of the parents of yesteryears cos their method actually did work for the era in which they raised their kids. Although it was forceful, brute and sometimes harsh, it did work. But the truth is that those method also did a lot of harm.

Seconded, the means/methods that some of the older generation used have resulted in 'some' people being damaged goods and unable to function properly in modern family settings.

Afterall it's the older generation that were raised in the so called 'old skool' way that have brought the country to its knees with all their looting, amala/gbegiri politics and what not. Weren't these the same set of people that woud go around saying 'we have to respect our elders blah, blah blah' - we don't see much of the home training coming into play in the political/governance arena.

There's not much point in looking back at the past with rose-tinted specs.

iice, i totally agree with you.
The sad thing is that the father is soft and the mother dont want the kid to cry, so they end up breeding time bombs

na so

discipline wise the've thrown the rod out the window, dialogue and compromise are now the prefered means of parenting

i'd say they are worse nowadays.

Today's parents lacks vision

Today's Parents lacks respect

Today's Parents lacks integrity.

Infact the present dads and mums are mainly junks of rubbish.

I score them 35% while

the older mums and dad gets 93%

@OP
Hard to tell. But without a doubt, my mother is a far better parent than I can ever be. She worked me real good (the way I needed to be worked). I thank God for her.