It's really sad that parents today are just loving their children to DEATH. LITERALLY! PARENTS are the ones who are supposed to be in charge. Parents are supposed to love and guide and teach. Instead, many of them are the ones who are propagating much of the world's miseries. Doting parents who believe children do not have to be DIRECTED. I'm not questioning the LOVE they have, just the common sense they apparently do not have. The line has been kicked so many times, each generation brings a new pitiful low. It all started out with "I'm OK, You're OK"; live and let live, don't SPANK your child... God, society, environment, therapists, teachers,etc. are all to blame when things don't go right. Never mind the lack of parenting skills that started it all. By the time the kids get to school, they KNOW they are the ones who make the rules. They demand and they GET! "You can't touch me, I know my rights! What the HECK!! This has come to a point where parents have to watch their children DIE, and I'm not just talking about the afterlife, I am talking about teens having the RIGHT to privacy. Soon it will be at age 10! Poor things don't even know what questions to ask when faced with bad situations. HOW are they supposed to be able to cope? WHERE are they supposed to be able to get help? Pretty frightening to think about your child and their confusion when they don't feel like they can go home. Rest assured, they WILL find help, from strangers and others who do NOT love them! Now we are talking about giving credence to mere BABIES who think they are something they are not. PARENTS- PLEASE!! Your child should not even know the terminology at this point. To the man who's parents "don't know" (and others): If you had had the type of loving open relationship your parents should have provided in the first place, you would not now still be dealing with the temptations that you should have been able to conquer and put behind you so long ago that you would not even remember. Kids do not need to know about the economy- or voting- or sexual behavior and misbehavior- or drugs, or evil and a whole plethora of other things- especially at the age of five- for cryin' out loud! Adult conversations should be guarded. Your children should love you AND fear you and TRUST you. Start early and you will save many tears and much pain.
Babies don't know hot things can hurt them, they don't know that poison can kill them. They don't know even about FOOD. These things and many others have to be taught to them (and they ARE taught to them- whether parents admit it or not.) You cannot hold them at arm's length and hope that wisdom and training is going to fall out of the sky on them. And yet, that is what many are doing. Their lives are formed and their futures DEPEND on wise parenting from day 1.
Three things that I think are contributing to this mess: 1. People are no longer honoring their VOWS. (Just words to be said like some robo-tron) and divorce is more often the rule rather than the exception. 2. Judges almost always 'give' the children to the mother to raise. Certainly not all, but MOST of the people having identity crises have been raised by a single parent and this parent is usually the Mom. DADS need to raise their sons!! 3. As a nation, we are "Fat and Happy" so we allow our rights to be trampled without so much as raising a question. Our children and our children's children - and theirs- will most certainly suffer for this. Just like the Bible says.
Homosexuality is NOT normal. Trans-gendering is NOT normal. Parents who allow and encourage their young children to entertain these things are NOT normal.
Dr. Phil tackles the sensitive topic of children who identify more with the opposite sex. What do you do if your son wants to wear dresses and play with dolls? Or if your daughter tells you she wants to be a boy? Should parents chock it up to being a phase that their children will grow out of, or should they intervene right away? Meet Melissa and Tim, whose 8-year-old son declared himself to be a girl when he was just 3 years old. Now, they allow their child to live as a girl and wonder if and when they should begin hormone therapy. Then, when Mary’s son was 8, he told her he felt like a girl, and Mary allowed him to experiment with dressing as a female. Now a teenager, her son is more comfortable living as a male -- but Mary wonders if she caused his confusion. Joining the discussion are experts with differing points of view: Dr. Dan Siegel, professor and clinical psychiatrist at UCLA School of Medicine, and Glenn Stanton, author and research fellow with the organization Focus on the Family. Is gender identity something we’re born with, or is it influenced by parents and environment? Don’t miss this heated discussion, then talk about the show here..
