Lazy parents what can be done? Can't even put a coat on the child !!!

This just burns my butt. If you want to get technical about it that parent should be reported because that is child neglect. I always have extra coats in my closet for kids that show up at my house without one and often give them away. There is no excuse for this kind of behavior. For pity's sake you can pick up a coat at a garage sale for next to nothing and even a preschooler can put on their own coat. Some people just should not have kids at all.

I agree with you some parents are just lazy to a fort they dont even care about their kids more often they are not at home and mom takes care of everything,ladys are really trying it is not that easy to take care of these kids just contunue doing your job there wiil be a way out of it one day

if she is a mom who does not care for them, report them to the state, they will help those kids and then she will see that what she is doing is not right and had conciconses.

You can only say to these parents your opinion. I would say. I would not care if they were upset with me, because I were sure that I did all I cloud. If many other parents would say their opinion earlier or later there were some affection. good luck!

Here's how it "works": the child refuses to wear the coat. Child get pneumonia. Next time the child refuses to wear the coat, the parent says "Remember last time?". The problem is that today, it is thought that parents should try to reason with the child to resolve conflicts. But heck, you can't reason with most grown-ups, you can't certainly reason with most children. So the solution is either careless neglect or stern discipline.

This one a real serious issue. parents at yaong think that they doing favour to their children are actually letting them become who doesn't accept other's viewpoint even if they are correct. later on thes parents keep on crying that my child doesn't do this or that.

It is a sad fact that these parents are self-centered. They only think of themselves. The child suffers and is vulnerable to being set up for failure later on in his/her life.

I agree with you, it is impossible to see the future of such children. Parents I also feel should be strict where it is essential.

cant be done anythin

OMG are you serious?! thats so insane and IMO that just goes to show just how little this "woman/mother" thinks of her children....that makes me sick to my stomache parents like that....My kids can (and have when they were younger) argue with me til their faces turn blue and their damn heads explode but you're damn skippy they're putting on that flippin coat!!!

That is terrible! I hate it when I see kids in charge of the parents, and that's exactly what is happening in that family. They are not the boss! The parents are supposed to be the boss. That would be the day that my kids don't wear a coat to school just because I didn't want to fight them. We see it in stores all the time, where a kid will just put something in the cart and expect the parents to pay for it. The mom will say something about it and the kid will say, "But I want it and you're going to buy it for me!" Yeah right! lol! Doesn't happen in my family!

Recently one day while dropping my daughter off at school, i wait outside with all the other parents until my child hoes in. there was a little boy there that is in my daughters class and i noticed him there when we got to the school grounds, well we all waited our 15 mintues in the cold until the teachers came to gather up the kids and bring them to class, i started walking to my car and i noticed the same little boy sitting in the far corner on a rock, i went up to him and told him that the teachers have come and got the kids already, he was so scared , i helped him of course go inside and walked him to his classroom, but where was his parents? he was there before me which means that they just dropped him off and left! a 5 year old! what if i hadnt noticed him what if nobody noticed him? he could have stayed there the whole 3 hours or worse someone could have picked him up! i know your discussion was about lazy parents and this falls in the catergory of unresposible parents but i had to share!

i totally hate irresponsible parents, especially because i was raised the best way a parents ever could, fed right, clothed properly, was brought to school. it's worse from where i'm at. you actually see kids running around without clothes. and guess where their parents are? out with the neighbors gossiping. very irresponsible. it's unfair for the kids coz they can't actually hate their parents but their parents are actually neglecting them. i know we can't just come up to them and tell them what to do. i'm sure they'd be aggravated. i think the best we can do is set good examples to our kids in the future so they don't end up becoming irresponsible parents someday

Oh my gosh! Letting her child control her like that is ridiculous. If this becomes a pattern, school has a certain level of responsibility to that child too. Maybe the teacher can show him how to zip it up, make it fun. Seems this parent has no common sense, maybe trying to instill that in the child would help. My son goes to a private school and I do see this too. He wears a uniform. His uniforms are always ironed and clean. Clean should not be an option, but some children come to school looking like there clothes have never been washed. Some parents just don't get it.

invite parents for a class...

The best way to stop this cycle is to make sure we raise our own kids properly first. Then they will grow up to be responsible parents...the parents of that child was probably brought up to not care about their kids...sad.. I have gone to school parties and seen 6-7 year olds that needed baths and clean clothes and I think to myself...I love my kids and I am proud of them ... Never let them go somewhere dirty and in dirty clothing... Instill pride in your children as well, hope fully all these changes will make a difference in others lives to , by example...

I agree with Bev I think it is not really that the parent is lazy but that the child is in charge. My thing is, if you allow them to control what they will and will not do at such a young age they will be the one to do poorly in life. Children test their parents and parents need to find a way to discipline their children. I always like the methods that are used on Super Nanny. The biggest thing I have learned is to stick to what I say and set rules. Children learn what they are taught, like any other person. I still believe in "raise them in the way they should go". I am sort of old school though, in that I am making a way to work from home so that I can raise my own children. I also think that the right socialization is also important. Some of the things children learn and are exposed to in these Day Care Centers are horrible.