I'm pretty disgusted with my cousin at the moment. So he's been talking to me and my wife and our other cousins/siblings all semester about how his son is doing poorly in a couple classes.Today is that kid's birthday. So he takes a video and uploads it to facebook. He bought the kid a Nintendo game console. Gave it to him. Let him get all excited. Then took it out of his hands and started yelling at him for his poor performance in school.I've been seeing crap like this online for years now and it's always disgusting and, in my opinion, abusive. It accomplishes nothing. You haven't incetivised the kid to do better. You just embarrassed him and passed him off.I think that both him and his wife bear some responsibility for their son's grades. They knew months ago. Why didn't they address it? I asked him multiple times what he was going to do to help him. Are you going to help him study? Stay in contact with his teachers? Make him go to tutoring sessions? Something. Take a step to advocate for your kid and solve the problem. His response "That's his job. He knows what he needs to do."Yeah sorry. He's 12. He needs direction. That's what we're there for. Some kids will be self disciplined with their schoolwork and others need some parental pushing. So it's your job to do the pushing.And to put this spectacle online is just so cruel.I have 4 kids. 3 of them take care of their schoolwork alone and don't need my wife or myself to be on them about it. Our second oldest needs some pushing. He needs to be reminded about homework and we stay in touch with his teachers. He needs us to help him with some work. And I'm his parent so I gladly do it. I'd think most good parents would do the same.End rant. via /r/Parenting http://ift.tt/2j1TUlY
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