You Started it
How we’ve become an entire society that doesn’t know how to take responsibility for ourselves.
Episode 41 of the Parenting Porcupines podcast, hosted by Jessica Ethirdge, Alex Thornton, Melissa Couture, Kasie Whitener , titled "You Started it" was published on November 10, 2023 and runs 33 minutes.
November 10, 2023 ·33m · Parenting Porcupines
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Summary
How we’ve become an entire society that doesn’t know how to take responsibility for ourselves.
Episode Description
- The purpose and scope of the episode-
- How do we teach our kids their actions have consequences when it seems everyone wants to blame someone else for everything?
- Today’s topic:
- Do your kids know what cancel culture is?:
- When they don’t want to play with someone who is being a jerk, they should walk away; when others won’t play with them, they should stop being jerks.
- Don’t be an asshole. Just because you can be, doesn’t mean you should be.
- Grace and truth as a spectrum: treat each instance with the appropriate amount of grace and the appropriate amount of truth
- Cancel culture is not new; social media exacerbates it. Who’s to blame?
- Millennials who have never been punched in the face for saying something.
- Who want everything to be fair.
- Who expect someone else will solve their problems and take care of them.
- The result of a failed parenting strategy that tried to protect them from everything.
- GenX who hasn’t stepped up to lead.
- Cynicism and snark are not leadership.
- Being squeezed out because they don’t give a damn.
- Baby Boomers who won’t take responsibility for the shitshow they have created.
- Who trade in thinly veiled racism
- Who amass power and refuse to relinquish it
- Who make policy and legislation that erode our civil liberties
- Millennials who have never been punched in the face for saying something.
- What can we do about it?
- Teach your kids to resist blaming others
- Help them see that there are real consequences for their actions
- Model grace — forgiveness — and truth in all circumstances
- Stop expecting to be offended by everything.
- Full show notes on the blog
- Photo by Marta Wave on Pexels.com
- Do your kids know what cancel culture is?:
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