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Parents have become very lax in the role of parenting within the last 10 years. As jobs have become increasingly more demanding and work weeks have extended much past the previous standard of 40 hours, childcare is being left in the hands of the school systems, and worse, television. Parents have come to rely on someone else doing the job for them, and then deny responsibility when their children do not behave appropriately. The school systems are already busy enough attempting to teach children the basics of reading, writing, and arithmetic. With the added pressure of being responsible for developing the children’s proper behavior and manners, schools are unjustly overloaded and overburdened. When it comes to disciplining the students, schools can only go so far, and no matter how much teachers try, there is really no replacement for what an angry parent can get a child to do. When it comes down to it, parents are not taking the necessary amount of time to be involved in their children’s lives, and are not teaching the necessary manners and discipline required in a civilized world. Instead, parents are turning to schools to teach discipline, and drugs to make their children more manageable. One major problem is that parents are not spending enough time with their children to adequately parent them. Unfortunately, this leads to more time alone for the child with less parental guidance and supervision, which can lead to problems. A television program is often substituted in place of parental supervision. When done properly, television can be a powerful tool in assisting parents. Television has the potential to teach children a wide variety of subjects, and can be used as a distraction for a child when parents need to run errands, accomplish a task, etc. However, this is taken too far in some cases, and children are left in front of a television for extended periods of time. A divorce in a family can be a major contributor to this lack of time.
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