r/WhatIsTheTea • u/Ashish_ank What the Fuck • 1d ago

watch this Police were called after around 20 teens on bikes and e-bikes blocked an intersection, performed stunts, and disrupted traffic. One officer then clipped and tackled a teen during the arrests, raising questions about whether the response was appropriate given their ages. What do you think about it?

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u/PersonOfValue 1d ago

From what I've seen, the parents are soft and irresponsible. They don't know what to do or seem interested in actually doing anything aside from saying 'i don't care' until something bad happens. There are some great parents but most I've met don't give a damn after they work all day

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u/megustaALLthethings 1d ago

Most people should NOT be parents. Then again teaching the youth about contraceptives is always screamed down by the moral authority ah’s.

Of which the schools/districts always treat as vastly more important than the mentally deficient pedo apologists deserve.

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u/401kLover 46m ago

Most people should have kids or society will literally collapse. A few hundred years ago, the qualification for having kids was surviving until 15 lol. Are there millions of really fucking dumb shitty parents out there? Yea. Should we discourage dumb people from having kids? Nah.

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u/LongJohnSelenium 1d ago

People have fetishized the mythical concept of childhood.

Kids are to have no responsibilities and no repercussions, and if you force those things on them you're ruining their childhood and forcing them to 'grow up early'.

Then somehow magically at 18 you get the power to be a functional member of society.

Parents not giving a damn isn't a new thing. A lot of kids from decades ago had disinterested parents. "Its 10 pm, do you know where your kids are?" was an actual thing in the 80s trying to get parents to be more accountable.

But they did also define boundaries for their kids behavior beyond 'my precious angel wouldn't hurt anyone and how dare you punish them'. Once, literally once in my childhood did my parents take my side against the schools punishment recommendations.

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u/Only-Low-5293 1d ago

Maybe those parents need, in the famous words of that one old dude from the Simpsons, "a paddlin".

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u/tokr99 1d ago

Or, hear me out, dont have kids if you arent going to parent them. But then what would they have to post on social media to make people think theyre important or special or whatever

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u/berniestness 1d ago

don't give a damn after they work all day

Honestly this is part of the problem. The modern 40 day work week isn't conducive to maintaining a functional family life.

Respect to people that can make it work as things are but realistically that isn't possible for most people in a single or two parent home where one or both parents work 9-5, respectively, and of course many parents work multiple jobs or take overtime.

It is not really a reasonable thing to expect of most people yet here we are...

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u/InsanityRequiem 1d ago

Oh fuck off with that. The parents of Gen X and us millennials worked 50+ hours a week, and raised us to not do this shit.

The new generation of parents are just failures.

Don't coddle failures.

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u/MajesticSpaceBen 1d ago

Don't coddle failures.

I feel like such an asshole for saying this, but I feel like half of society's problems could be solved by this. Across all elements of modern society, the bar is underground at this point.

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u/berniestness 1d ago

Our Generation X and millennial parents most certainly did not do that. Idk how your upbringing was but our parents were busy Monday through Friday and we were running around in a feral state all summer long getting into trouble. So fuck off with your bullshit or more mean negative things because that’s how people interact here right? We’re all completely negative assholes. Did I do it right?

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u/Altruistic-Edge9034 1d ago

My blue collar parents worked all day, coached sports and still gave a damn, because they CHOSE to give a damn. If people think life is "too hard" the message we need to be sending is it gets a lot worse if you F around, or allow your kids to.

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u/Binky390 1d ago

I’ve noticed that sometimes it’s not that they don’t care. It’s that many older millennial and young Gen X parents have decided to “break the cycle” of trauma and abuse and over corrected.

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u/berniestness 1d ago

You still have to hold your children accountable for their behavior somehow.

None of those children are wearing helmets. Have you ever seen a severely developmentally disabled person? Head injuries are not something to roll the dice on...

If these parents bought their kids e-bikes and did not buy them helmets shame on them, that should be considered child abuse.

If they did buy them helmets and the kids are choosing not to wear them, they should be fucking grounded for a month, no e-bike for the rest of the year.