Bad Parenting 101
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shareSome people should not be allowed to breed. Case closed.
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That's really easy to say, but it's clear a lot of these people are caught in a vicious cycle that is passed on from generation to generation. If Appachey has kids, you really think he'll make a great parent? Most likely not, unfortunately, but he knows no better, and it's very possible his mother didn't know any better either.
shareThat's really easy to say, but it's clear a lot of these people are caught in a vicious cycle that is passed on from generation to generation. If Appachey has kids, you really think he'll make a great parent? Most likely not, unfortunately, but he knows no better, and it's very possible his mother didn't know any better either.
shareDid you not see how their parents were uneducated, impoverished, clinically depressed, and began having children very young, and are now raising kids pretty much doomed to the same thing? Do you really think the parents portrayed chose this life because they had spectacular childhoods themselves? That's the whole point - to show inter-generational poverty.
They're coming to get you, Barbara!
True about that 'whole point' thing, but being poor shouldn't necessarily make you delusional, dirty and lazy. I refuse to believe that all poor people are hoarders, or cursing yellers.
Most seem to be, but not all.
Also, books are free at any Library, so being an idiot cannot be generational. It's a choice.
💀 They hurt our eyes to save our souls 💀
Yes, someone with an untreated Learning Disorder or mental health issues, or who dropped out of high school at 15, is going to trot on down to the library to research good parenting strategies on their own.
I will agree that the one mother did not ever seem to clean her house. That has nothing to do with poverty (though I think she was clinically depressed).
They're coming to get you, Barbara!
I've known so many people from all walks of life and I've only known 1 person who's house was as filthy as some of those places. But she was raised that way (parents never cleaned) and never thought of anything to just cover up the mess. Yes, the dog would poo on the floor and the kids (who were always home alone) would just cover the poo with newspaper! It was horrible. I still, as an adult, don't jnderstand why or how they came to live like that. They were not hoarders, just ... dirty? And not poor by any means, their house was beautiful on the outside. Except the piles of garbage bags everywhere. The town forced them to get rid of the bags because neighbors conplained
I've also known poor people that had fantastically clean houses, even though both parents works full time opposing schedules.
So, TLDR: I agree.
I agree. The mother of the son with all the mental disorders should have forced him to take the necessary medication. It sounds harsh, but he can't control himself and is an obvious danger to himself or someone else. Say "you can't live in my house until you take [such and such] medication."
He isn't an adult and he doesnt have the mental capacity to make that decision for himself. Thats like having a schizophrenic teenager/child and saying "well he's an adult so I can't force him to take the medicine."
It's insane to me that she would say something so asinine!
When parents are lazy--the kids will be lazy. It's just the way it is. A kid can realize their parents are lazy and want to change and not be that way too, but it doesn't change the fact that it is in their chemistry as well as psychologically. It's not impossible for them to change--but it's very, very difficult when that's what you're used too.
shareThe point of this film isn't to point out "bad parenting" or "poor choices." The point if this documentary is much deeper.
We're shown three boys at the beginning of the film and we automatically label them and judge them based on the few minutes. Andrew is a hope filled child that lives in a dirty home. Apachee (pardon misspelling, I cannot recall how he spells it exactly) who's an anger filled child that puts up a "tough guy front" that has an angry mother. Then we
have Harley who is "slow", likes knives, and has truancy issues. But, if we put our judging attitudes aside and start asking questions to as why things happen, we understand their life and the circumstances. There's social connectedness, how they use their resources, their mastery of certain, personal, aspects; a form of stability, and safety. Once we look deeper at what's going on, and get past our judgemental, bias selves, we see each one of these "domains of wellbeing" are being met. Our question of why is answered and we begin to understand their lives.
We may not agree with each of their actions, but your wellbeing isn't the same as the next. If you're interested in understanding it all, read up on this. And for the love of God, don't point a finger at someone you're looking down on.
http://fullframeinitiative.org/resources/about-the-full-frame-approach-and-five-domains/
Very well said.
sharethese kids would be better off being left in the woods and let a pack of wolves raise them.
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