People List Things Parents Should Stop Teaching Their Kids And Explain Why They’re Harmful (50 Answers)

Also, teach them about consent, learning what they like and respecting other people's boundaries. That is what they really need to know about having sex. Not telling them not to.

And along those same lines, demonizing hickeys and stuff like heavy petting. Yes, I know. hickeys are "trashy". But 14-18 year olds aren't gonna necessarily be high class socialites, are they? And heavy petting is probably the BEST alterative to intercourse. Obviously you had to have had sex to have this child, so don't act like it doesn't exist

It's no coincidence that states who only allow abstinence education have the highest rates of teen pregnancy....

Take 10 minutes and watch the top rated p*rn videos online. THAT’S what your kid is learning if you don’t teach them. Should be terrifying.

There's a lot of evidence that those countries that have age appropriate sex and relationship teaching in schools have far lower levels of teen pregnancy, and teen STDs, and also have, on average, a higher age at which they have their first sexual experience (and are more likely to categorise their first experience as enjoyable and welcome). Teaching children about sex benefits them in many ways.

In the 70s, our teachers used to read out everyone’s test results in front of the whole class with praise for the top marks and ever more condescending remarks for those with the worst marks. Ritual humiliation on a weekly basis.

I hope OP has learned to love playing piano again. It provides such solace to me when I play.

Similar thing happened to me. I was 7. Music teacher asked me to come to his piano in front of the class and play something because I raised my hand when he asked if anyone was learning music outside. I played a simple happy birthday song because I was extremely self conscious. Couldn't have managed anything harder. But I was proud of myself and had a big smile on my face, till the teacher asked with a sarcastic smile "Is that it?" Still one of my most embarrassing memories.

Though I love all kinds of music, I have no facility for playing an instrument, and especially lack the manual dexterity—-ambidexterity, tbh, in order to play the melody with one hand and the chords with the other—-needed to play piano, so anyone who can play, even if they miss a few notes here and there, play way way better than I ever could. And, especially if they’re only 8 years old and can play a tune recognizably, even with missed notes, I would be duly impressed and openly appreciative.

That childish teacher was disgusting. Good on you for being courageous and playing for your class! Unbelievable the way some ppl are so callous. Thankfully I think most teachers are thoughtful and kind. And there is a huge difference in being very intelligent in the topic they are teaching and knowing how to teach ( how to convey the information to their students in a manner that is easily understood ). Their intelligence is squandered in the field of teaching if they cannot be a "Teacher" to their students; including being kind. I had one such history professor in college who could recite historical accounts from memory like he was a computer. But the his hour long monologues based on his personal experiences left students scratching their heads as to what to study for tests even after specifically asking what to study for.

Apologizing to your kids when you've messed up helps the relationship and sets a good example.

They are not always right. They make mistakes and are their own persons with their own experience. But they think what they do is right and I dont judge them for it. I forgave my mother for how she raised me and yes, some things were right as it turns out.

Last time I checked, humans make mistakes. Parents are humans. Thus capable of making mistakes. Being a parent doesn't make them all knowing gods.

I cannot disagree with this being wrong. Parents are right most of the time, but ALWAYS isnt true.

My father constantly says this and it's really annoying. He's joking each time, but it's not funny.

We went to a movie theater birthday party. My kids were appalled of the state other kids left the theater. They were throwing popcorn and candy at each other, a few kids spilled their drinks and didn't say anything. My youngest said they were so disrespectful and felt bad for the staff of the theatre. Made me a proud parent.

This story makes me want to b i t c h slap humanity.

Even worse is the families out for a picnic in the park and leave everything behind, including smouldering barbecue tray and twenty plastic cups and plates. They must think it's someone else's job. I'd love to see the state of these people's houses.

She taught him classism, a very hateful way to treat people as less than human based on some arbitrary status definition. She failed as a mother and as a person.

"Leave nothing behind but a good impression!"

I visited a game shop twice in the same month, with two different boys I was friends with. The guy working there made fun of me for "going through boyfriends so quickly" or something like that, and laughed when I irritably said "we're just friends". I was thirteen at the time. FFS.

At the school I work for, at least half the kids think they have to have a boyfriend/girlfriend and they're weird if they don't. It's disgusting, honestly.

Had lots of my cousin’s friends ask me if I was his girlfriend because I he didn’t look like me and I was a year older -_-

Qualifying degrees of friendship - best friend, boy/girl friend. Being a child is fluid - today's 'best' may not be 'best' tomorrow. Kids don't need that demand from adults for who is who in their pecking order.

I wish I had guy friends! It would help me understand the male perspective so much more since I grew up with only women in my life. My parents divorced and I didn’t have a relationship with my dad. So…..no idea what guys are/ how they operate basically.