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I find that children today are extremely intelligent and have a mind of their own. While I can see both sides of this debate and after having gone through quite a struggle emotionally trying to decide what response I would have, I definitely believe that children are responsible for their own behavior. My husband and I took our Grandson in at age 4 with quite a few behavior issues. We worked with Andrew quite a bit trying to communicate right from wrong. While he understands completely what the right behavior is, he watches other children with bad behavior and chooses to behave exactly as they do no matter what we tell him, show him or do for him,

While at home, the behavior is good, as soon as this child steps out the door to go to school, the free will kicks in and Andrew chooses to behave badly in the classroom, talk badly to his teachers and refuse to do his work. Just this alone has me believing that if a child behaves badly, it is the child, not the parent. Every ounce of our beings went into disciplining this child and helping him know how he should behave and it did not matter. He went right out the door and did as he pleased. Had I been a poor example and never spent any time with Andrew, then I would understand. Therefore I do not believe the parents are responsible for a child's bad behavior.

Children can do so many things positive and they choose not too. You used to be able to teach your child dicipline without any reprocussions, but not today. Today though, the children tell You what you can and cannot do to them when it comes time for the dicipline. There are not many fear abiding children left in this world today. If the parent needs to scold a child for something, they better watch out. Today the children tell them they will call the police. These children are learning very quickly and its not the parents teaching them all of these things. It is the teachers. Its very difficult to have controls in place and have teachers and other children teach your children how to behave badly.

Society has tied the parents hands. You can't continue to tell parents they can't dicipline their children and then expect them to not have a child misbehave.

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