Children these days don't know how to behave

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AIBU to wonder why?

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1. Photo of socially distanced lunch tables in primary school with taped areas for seating
2. Photo of socially distanced classroom in secondary school with children sat in masks
3. Photo of child cycling past a play area taped up with signs advising it's closed
4. Front page of the Sunday People with headline that says "Death is all around us.. so follow the rules"
5. Photograph of toddler at window with an old lady at the other side - both putting their hands up to each other.

what on earth are you on about OP?

it’s like you haven’t moved beyond 2020 lockdown 😆

😂

seriously?

my children
my young relatives
my children’s friends
my friend’s children

all know how to “behave”

It’s 2024!

Huh?

Am I mistaken and it's 2020, not 2024?

Christ, this old bollocks again

I didn't realise lockdown meant parents didn't have to teach their children how to behave

I mean... it was a tough time, and it impacted on all of us who lived through it, but it was temporary and the restrictions are long since over so yes, you are being unreasonable.

You know people who don't parent their kid and who tape off seats and parks?

The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers. - Socrates

My children know how to behave. Whenever their friends visit they do too and are all lovely children.

You think the generation before you didn't say 'this new generation doesn't know how to behave'? A boring tradition as old as time.

Grow up OP.

Bot?

So, no one whinged about children’s behaviour prior to 2020?

the op

There are undoubtedly potentially some long lasting effects of lockdown on children and teens, but to describe it as 'children these days don't know how to behave' is a bit of a sweeping comment. Also, some children have SEN which mean they don't behave in the way as 'other' children, that doesn't mean they or their parents aren't trying though! Of course there are also lazy parents, who don't parent, but they have always existed!

Some don't but think it's parenting not Covid that was Ages ago!

OP does have a point. Before lockdown all kids were perfectly mannered mini-adults, charming, and well-behaved, whereas now all of them, without exception, are basically feral.

* it’s like you haven’t moved beyond 2020 lockdown 😆 *

It's true, I haven't in a lot of ways.

But I've read a lot of threads in the last 6 months complaining about children's behaviour - in schools, screaming too loud when playing outside, making noise in a restaurant etc. Complaints about children not knowing how to use cutlery etc.

I feel like everybody collectively wanted to move on from the pandemic, but no one is happy to give this generation a little more grace and understanding. I find it incredibly frustrating.

Are you saying all children are now poorly behaved because they weren't allowed on the swings for 3 months in 2020?

Definitely not but feel free to report, MN can vouch.

Behaviour in school decreased but that's because some children were forced to stay in their abusive homes without any respite at school, some children didn't get their additional needs picked up, some children experienced bereavement.
Those children who did not experience those things and had to do a bit of social distancing should have caught up on their social skills by now and those that did experience those things should have support in place however that is lacking in most areas.
Societal behaviour has been decreasing for a long time as parents and people in general don't respond to authority in the same way and drugs and county lines and general gang culture has moved into areas it previously wasn't but that's not COVID based.

you’re spending far far too much times seeking out the covid threads on mumsnet

do you work?
friends?
social life?
how are your children? my children (tween and early teen) pretty much forgotten covid!

Please do not use 2020 as an excuse, even though restrictions were longer than they would have been under a competent Prime Minister (or indeed almost any other leader than Boris Johnson).

The children who have not been taught good behaviour by their parents are nothing to do with 2020 restrictions. Lazy parenting (so-called) or those who refuse to accept their child can misbehave is the main cause.