Some useful tips for those parents who want to raise little monsters

@ElentirENG ES 3·18·2024 · 7:00 0

One of the great riches of a country is education, and in that, as in other things, our society proves to be in crisis.

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Education is largely a process of transmitting values, a process in which children are taught to distinguish between what is right and what is wrong, a process whose greatest ally is the good example, that is, the values that we transmit to others with our daily behavior. A society that is entering into an enormous void of values can hardly take on the challenge of educating children with certain guarantees of success.

All in all, and as some parents will be looking for references in this regard, I dare to write these lines full of corrosive Galician irony to indicate some advice that should be followed if instead of well-educated children you want to have little monsters, in the hope that the antiexamples are more powerful than the examples:

• Say yes to everything he asks of you and give in to all his whims. This way he will learn to believe that his desires are orders and that others are there to serve him, and he will become an intolerant person who cannot stand Let someone contradict you.
• Do not transmit moral or ethical codes to him and tell him things like that nothing is right or wrong, that everything depends on the lens through which he looks. In addition to avoiding being called conservative and retrograde, your child will learn that Anything goes to get what you want, even hurting others, because at the end of the day, nothing is wrong.
• Never impose any kind of punishment on him, not even the slightest. This way he will learn that bad actions have no consequences and he will not know how to distinguish them from good actions.
• Apologize and defend him to others if he ever does something bad. This way he will learn that you approve of his bad actions simply because he is your child and that will encourage him to continue misbehaving.
• Never get angry if he disrespects you. This way he will learn not to respect his elders, whether they are his parents, his grandparents or his teachers and to treat them as if they were trash.
• Allow him to bother your neighbors by shouting and making annoying noises. This way he will learn that the rules of coexistence are to be broken, except when something bothers him.
• Do not impose rules when it comes to eating. Let him eat whatever he wants, allow him to eat whenever he wants and as many times as he wants. This way you will think that your desires are the only important thing when it comes to eating, and not your health or family life.
• Don't be demanding with his studies and allow him not to do his homework. Then he will think that teaching is a waste of time and that it is better to be ignorant.
• If he ever does something bad, look for someone else to blame: his teachers, his friends, the television... This way your child will learn to never take responsibility for his bad actions and will acquire the habit of blaming always blames others for all the bad things that happen to him, even if they are caused by himself.

I know that these tips will seem surreal to many. As I said at the beginning, I have written them with absolute irony and with the purpose that some understand the big mistake they are making.

Unfortunately, this is how some parents seem to understand that they should educate their children, or rather give up on educating them, without realizing that they are raising little monsters, people who are going to be incapable of having a healthy coexistence with those around themand who possibly end up acting like undesirables with others, starting with their own parents.

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