Teaching seems like a frustrating job
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only 5... punish them
Sounds real normal and healthy. jfc. Who upvotes this trash?
It IS normal to punish 5 year olds. You don't have to use violence to punish them. 5 years old is enough to understand consequences.
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I never said it was acceptable. Do you call you're children garbage when they misbehave? Does their behavior improve after you tell your child that you think they're garbage? I don't let my children hit anyone either, I just don't call them garbage if they do.
Normal people don't break the teachers glasses and punch them in the face. This is already major behavioral problems if your kids are school age and doing this.
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Yeah, it's unacceptable, but it's also unacceptable to call a child a "garbage person" for acting like a child.
I wouldn't call a particular kid a garbage person to or around that kid in consideration for the effect it might have on that kid. Between you and me kids who do that are a fucked up mess who probably aren't going to end well.
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My little brother threw a chair at his preschool teacher. This is absolutely shit kids do, that they need to be taught is unacceptable. You don't teach kids to be better by writing them off as garbage humans, because they're still learning.
If you call your five year old garbage for acting out, you're a shitty parent.
How old is your little brother and how is his life going? If its going well I'm pretty sure it involved some intensive parenting or counseling.
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I'm always amazed at how little reading comprehension people have, or how they end up responding to things in their own head.
1 - your example of your little brother acting like an asshole doesn't mean it's "shit that kids do". This is "boys will be boys" shit, and that's not acceptable. This is like saying your little brother throws rocks at moving cars or at animals and it's just "shit kids do". Misbehaving kids do it, and need to be taught better, but it is not normal kid behavior.
2 - no one is saying they're talking to the kid like that
3 - part of teaching kids to be better people is showing them there are natural consequences for their actions, which guess what? That's a form of punishment, and it isn't violence.
If you call your five year old garbage for acting out, you're a shitty parent.
I ask my kid what's wrong and work with them to find a solution, and implement natural/logical (and because crayons are needed, non violent) consequences for their misbehavior. I may use choice descriptors for their behavior when they are not in the house, but I would never speak to my kid that way.
It baffles me how many people in this thread don't have a concept of natural/logical consequences as punishment, and it really fucking shows in the responses. But I guess when you're raised with violence and can't be bothered to look into alternatives, it's easy to assume and drag people on the Internet
Who in this thread advocated violence? I advocated selling the kids console to buy the teachers glasses and not getting him another one.
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People are just violent apes until you raise them to be civilized.
5 year old me would never have punched a teacher just trying to teach the class
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5 year old me would never have punched a teacher just trying to teach the class
How do we know the child's age? 5yo me was super mad at the world (neurodiverse in 1980s).
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Normal people don't break the teachers glasses and punch them in the face. This is already major behavioral problems if your kids are school age and doing this.
Totally agree. But, normal people also don't go around calling children garbage either.
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This "child" could be 7 or 17, which makes a huge difference regarding the appropriateness of their response. We need more context.
Are you saying that there is enough info to call this child a "garbage person" though lol?
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