Children should be seen and not heard
Or would it better apply to their parents?
Children in public have the potential to make your life that little bit harder
Actually, it is believed when we're children we are disobedient to learn right from wrong and experience the meaning and understanding of responsibility. Some children who disobey learn quickly rigth from wrong, learning from mistakes and becoming a well behaved citizen; some children do not. It is all based upon how that child is raised up until they're an adult, and what experiences they endure.
The most ridiculously ageist idea concievable
However, children should be told not to have public tantrums since that makes people unhappy, including the children themselves.
I agree!!
Kids should be listened to full stop
HOWEVER, a child of2-10 years old cannot be blamed solely..
My name is Tess Groody and I am a kid myself. You guys are selfish and senseless for blaming everything on kids. I have been exploring topics on this humblee site; Debatewise, and found alot of debates are based on kids and what a neuisense they are. I looked at the debate on the topic that children should not eat as much salt and sugar, and all the people who posted a comment were saying how kids are so obese these days. Have you looked at all the grown ups these days?! jeez. Seriously you guys.
I'm in a poof because of all you people out there you are disrespectful to us!!!!!!!!!!
It is a draconian idea that can stunt development
Firstly I feel some are taking the saying to a extreme. This is not needed. I'm always being told how well my children behave in public simply because nobody but the people at my table or by my cart can hear them. They are still asking questions and being curious. They are still behaving like normal children but they are not disrupting the meals and shopping experiences of others. You can teach your children to speak there minds in a controlled intelligent way when they're upset, as to avoid being gutless. Being seen and noticed and pleasing to the parents and the community does not mean raising spineless children, and when exactly did it become undesired to have polite soft spoken children around? Screaming yelling and other such behavior is frowned on when a fellow adult does it and if you raise your children to ignore these behaviors they will become loud poorly spoken grown ups. You can not get a steady job screaming and talking back to a future boss. You can't have passing grades arguing loudly every time you dislike your work. The world we live in is built around conforming to a ideal. I may not fully agree with the ideal but I do believe that firstly we survive and then we debate the means. Humans did not survive in the times of cave men by screaming and flipping out every time they got excited or angry and as "civilized" people nor should we...
What it really means!
I know this and remember i am only a child.
The statement just means that they should sit quietly until they were spoken to - that they were able to "voice their opinion" if they were asked. Of course their opinion was valued, its just they were taught that they shouldn't feel their opinion was important over all others or that they had the right to interrupt etc...that's all.
I am also a child, and I know this.
Listen
I watch my younger cousins today as they run around shopping centres, continuously ask for items and steadily get louder and louder as they are refused, the items. I watch as they scream at their mother, my aunt because they wont get what they want and I even see them hit each other and tease each other for no apparent reason, aslthough it might just be because the younger of the sisters is, well lets just say she takes after her mother. Children learn from their parents, my aunt yells and stomps around and glares when she doent get what she wants or when someone wont do what she wants, and her two daughters the younger one in paticullar copy this behavior to the point where i have had one of them come up and kick me because, i was looking after them when they wanted something. This is an example the affirmative should use, these are the kids that need to be told to shut up. But i have met many other kids in shopping centres who have been polite, courtious and reasonable. I was a very mature child when i was young, i was forced to mature quickly because of family circumstances but the point is if my mum would tell me to do something and i said no, the arguement either went two ways either she yelled or she persuded me to do it, when she told me to do something i wouldnt do it but when she asked and persuaded i would do it with out complaint, most young children are similar. If they are cowed into doing something they will have a tendency to push boundries and be rude unless commanded, these children quite often turn out to be delinquents and bullies in schools but also these are the ones that are most often misbehaving in shops. Children whos parents however distasteful many adults will find this, but children whos parents try to talk with them will have a tendency to push boundries, but they will know when they are going near the limit and back off like for example they will ask for something once and maybe ask again but they will know to stop there, these children generally turn out to be high acheiving students in school, then there are kids who walk all over their parents, these kids either misbehave silently or are very loud and rude. then their are abused or negleted kids, these kids generally are either overly polite or even worst such as the little kids who run around and bite people and beleive me it happens.
I have really not talked about the main topic so i apologise, but i was trying to give some insight into what modern child psychologists and myself have found through study and observation, but though i speak for the negative, thats only because there is not a grey area, kids who are told not to tlak in public are not menatlly healthy they can opften become, secluded and unsocial, but children that are given free run are well rude generally, this is based purely on sources that i have gathered for assignments, but children should be told to stick close to the parents but be allowed to speak within a reasonable margin of noise, but more to the point parents need to teach their kids this, if they can do that this out dated topic becomes redundant.
I disagree. I believe that children should be seen and heard. It just makes me mad whenever I hear about this. I am 15 and a teacher told me that I have a voice and I should use it. Children deserve to be listened to. It would also damage self esteem. Here is an example: a child is told at an early age that children should be seen and not heard. They might actually believe it and if they talk, they might get scolded. They would become shy and it would be really hard for them to be able to talk and have their voices to be heard. If you think about it, it is actually a type of discrimination. Adults would be allowed to talk and the child would think that it would not be ok. We need to be strong and have our voices heard.
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To be told to be seen and not heard is a hateful thing to do to your child. However it will backfire. Our mother did this to us and we got even. We hate her as adults and won’t let her see our children. We see what a cold witch she really was. Kids, stand up for yourself and become strong adults.