Parents Blamed For 'Buying Off Kids'

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By Cara

Wednesday, March 24, 2010, 14:30

Middle class parents have been accused of “buying their children off" with expensive gifts when not able to spend quality time with them.

Today's lifestyle is such that both the parents are working and have very little time to spend with their kids. In most of the families, kids are brought up by grandparents or nannies. When the kids come back from school, they are alone at home. The only time they get to spend time with their parents is on weekends, when most of the time they are pressurized to study.

To make up for the lack of attention, parents give their children expensive gifts like mobile phone, computers, televisions etc. This unknowingly pushes the kids to lead “isolated lives."

Dr. Mary Bousted, General Secretary of the Association of Teachers and Lecturers, said parents are to be hold responsible if their children misbehave or fail to acknowledge authority.

Often it"s the well-off middle class that buy off their children through expensive gifts and at the end the parents wonder why their child are not attached to them. Such kids to learn the social disciplines of living in a family and the cycle of give and take.