August 8, 2024 • 20 mins
Welcome to Straight TV. Have you ever wondered why today's society is failing culturally, spiritually, and financially? This episode dives deep into the root cause: a catastrophic failure in parenting.
From the lack of social skills and responsibility in today's youth to the disconnection from consequences and reality, we explore how modern parenting has contributed to these issues. We discuss real-life incidents and share insights on how the shift from traditional values has impacted our homes and society.
Discover why being friends first and parents second is detrimental, and how failing to instill responsibility, respect, and accountability in our children leads to a lifetime of challenges. We also tackle the role of social media and the importance of correcting and applying effective parenting techniques.
Join us as we assess family dynamics, communication, and the urgent need to prioritize parenting over friendship. Stay sharp and informed with Straight TV.
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(00:00):
Welcome to Straight TV. Have you wondered and even asked your friends,
your relatives, your mom, your dad, your spouse, why the world it is what it is now?
Why there is a failure in today's society, culturally, spiritually, even financially?
(00:25):
Everything is related. it. Society is what it is right now because there has
been a failure in the works.
And that failure, it's parenting. Nobody really mentions it.
Nobody really talks about it.
Nobody wants to even acknowledge that there has been a failure in our homes.
(00:50):
There has been a failure as parents.
The disconnect from consequences in today's kids is non-existent they don't
understand that there are consequences you remember the the two teenagers who ridiculously.
(01:12):
And without any remorse without any feelings ran
over that i believe it was a next police chief
in vegas he was on his bicycle in the
morning and these two teenagers uh laughing
it out even recording it themselves ran him over and the disconnect that they
had no remorse sitting in the courtroom laughing at each other uh smirking looking
(01:38):
at each other like until the judge passed as sentencing.
And even then, they were still unfazed, like so disconnected with reality,
so disconnected with the repercussions of their actions.
That is today what's happening to society. The lack of social skills,
(02:01):
the lack of motivation in today's kids, no sense of responsibility.
And the moral compass? Non-existent. There is no more moral compass on today's
society's kids like it was when we were growing up.
And even then, I am a parent now, and even growing up, I saw the shift in the
(02:29):
traditional values of a home.
There was already a shift happening when we were growing up.
All this is a result of a catastrophic failure as parents.
Teachers have complained that students email them for material questions with acronyms and emojis.
(02:54):
Can you believe that? They no longer even want to write out a real question.
Just acronyms and emojis. The
students are asking questions like that These kids are
oblivious to the lexicon and
the syntax in life Even though
(03:15):
this problem is also attributed to poor quality education This failure starts
at home Everything in our lives starts at home If at home we have a dysfunctional environment,
an abusive environment, it's going to shape our life.
(03:37):
So everything starts at home. It depends how, it depends on our upbringing.
That's going to shape us. What happens at home? At what point does the failure begin?
When we choose to be their friends first and parenting is an afterthought.
Think about that. That's when the failure starts happening.
(04:00):
When we rather be our kids' friends and parenting, it's eventually.
Friends want always to be liked. Always our friends, they seek our validation.
Our friends seek always to be liked, to be fun to be around. Why?
(04:23):
Yes, it's normal, right? Right. We rather want to be liked by our kids.
Therefore, we don't want to discipline our kids because I don't want to be my
I don't want my kid to be mad at me.
So yeah, I go along. I'm cool. I let them go. I let them do.
I don't nag them.
(04:46):
Why? Because I'd rather be their friends. I want them to like me.
As parents, it means we are not being responsible.
We are not being responsible as parents when that's our mentality from the get-go.
Having kids, it's a responsibility and a big responsibility at that.
So how do we expect our kids to learn to be responsible if we are not ourselves?
(05:11):
We do everything for them. We don't want to bother them to do anything because
we want to be liked. We don't want them to be upset.
That is wrong. They need to learn at a young age that everybody puts in hard
work. Everybody has to do their part.
Everybody has to pull their own weight. And I've seen how some parents do not
(05:35):
want to bother the kids for anything.
They will even lose sleep, miss some meals, to do everything around the house
than to ask the kids for help.
You're doing your kids a disservice by doing that.
That's why this young generation doesn't want and cannot keep a job.
(06:01):
They don't. There is a huge drop in the employment growth because all these
kids who are graduating from this generation, they don't want to work.
They want to be influencers.
They want to have a good amount of social media followers to get paid.
(06:24):
They want to be youtubers they want to be bloggers because they grew up seeing
this on a daily basis so they feel like work clock in and clock out that's ridiculous
they don't they don't it's not it wasn't engraved in their identity that you have to work.
(06:45):
Also, we don't want to be bothered as parents. That's another part.
That's another problem.
As parents, we don't want to be bothered. We are consumed in our life.
We are consumed as millennials or Gen Xs.
We are consumed with our lives.
We are consumed with our friendships.
(07:06):
We are consumed because we grew up. We grew up also when social media was beginning.
Again, Instagram, Facebook.
If you go a little bit further, it was MySpace. We grew up tasting what it is
to be part of this movement.
(07:26):
So we ourselves are consumed as parents with social media. So we don't want to be bothered.
So at a young age, we gave our kids the phone or a tablet.
Here, here's a phone. Here's a tablet. Leave me alone. Don't bug me right now.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, sure, whatever, figure it out or whatever,
do it yourself or I don't care.
What things, when things don't pan out, we ask, what happened?
(07:52):
Yes, when they grew up and we're like, what happened?
Well, rather than you raising your kids, social media raised your kids.
Social media raised them for you because you don't want to be bothered.
Oh, come on. You have an antiquated mentality. They need to be freethinkers Okay,
(08:16):
You're going to have those free thinkers living with you in your home forever.
Because if you fail as parents, they will fail in life, in their relationships.
They'll fail at work, in their finances, and they will fail as parents as well.
Because our psychological pattern is transferred to our kids.
(08:41):
If we were lousy parents, lazy parents, absent parents, or irresponsible parents,
that pattern, that psyche is going to get transferred to our kids.
So if we failed and, quote unquote, we let our kids be free thinkers,
let them have the freedom that I didn't have.
(09:03):
Okay, you're going to have those free thinkers living under your roof forever.
They're going to come and go and fail because we fail as parents first.
They will fail as parents themselves.
They will fail in their relationships. They will fail at work.
They will fail in their finances.
Listen, no parent is perfect. We have our deficiencies. I'm not saying I'm perfect.
(09:26):
You're not perfect. Our parents had their problems and their deficiencies.
That's why we have the capacity to correct what our parents did wrong.
There are some things that our parents did wrong with us. Yes,
that now as parents, we're like, whoa, now I should do it differently instead.
This approach that my parents took on me didn't work out. I didn't like the
(09:48):
way they talked to me like that. So let me talk to my kids differently.
So the key word here is correct. What our parents may have done wrong, raising us.
And I say correct. Rick, you correct something and you still keep using it.
You keep applying it, not throw it away.
Everything that encapsulates how to be a parent, you're going to throw it out
(10:11):
the door because our parents were...
Our parents failed. If you say that, no, you don't know my parents.
You don't know my dad. You don't know my mom. They were horrible. They weren't there.
Okay, so you're going to throw parenting out the door? And rather than being
a parent, you're going to be a friend because you don't want to correct and apply.
No, correct and apply.
(10:34):
Not, oh, I don't want to correct. I'll just throw it out. That's what a lot of parents are doing.
And once the kids grow up and
they are teens we notice they are a little rebellious and a little disobedient
then we want to be parents and it doesn't work it doesn't work on them anymore
and we still have the nerve to say what happened but i gave them everything that's the problem,
(11:01):
i was there for nothing everything they
needed everything they wanted i get that's the problem that is
the problem if you spoil your
kids you will raise your grandkids if
you raise your kids you will spoil your grandkids but it's because you don't
(11:23):
understand i had a helicopter parent my mom was always on top of me like oh
my gosh i couldn't stand it she was always behind me I don't want to be like that.
Well, that's what you're going to correct.
We need to be better parents than our parents were.
First, we're going to be parents and friends second.
(11:46):
When you communicate at a young age, you have the freedom to teach.
Once you make time in your life to teach your kids, when they get older,
you don't have to force them to do anything.
And that's the thing. Once they get older and we see that they're being rebellious,
(12:06):
we want to force them to be obedient.
We want to force them to now do this, help me with that, clean your room.
Now we want to force them to study, read, and try to get a job.
If we took the time
in our lives and when they were young and
if we sat there with them and talk to them there is no need when they get older
(12:32):
to try to force and then the and then you that's when you say but what happened
that's what happened you didn't take your time to talk to them at a young age,
Because you took time of your life to instill in them responsibility,
respect, accountability, hard work, determination, be courteous, etc.
(12:56):
At a young age, you need to teach these kids this.
Responsibility, respect. All these things are absent in today's society,
in today's kids, in today's young adults.
Holds responsibility, respect, accountability, hard work, determination,
being respectful and courteous, etc.
(13:19):
You see how the pattern develops of what's deficient?
That's why I don't give a phone or a tablet to my kids, some other parents say.
There's no way that I'm going to give my kid a phone or a tablet. You know what?
His or her friends or peers at school have a phone.
(13:42):
So you still have to put in the work. Don't think by you not giving your kids
a phone or a tablet at a young age doesn't require for you still to put in the
work. You still have to put in the work. Why?
Because they may not have the phone, but their peers at school,
other kids at school may may have a phone and a tablet
(14:02):
so you still need to talk to your kids you still
need to put in the work isolation doesn't
work neither that's why i don't that's why since the
world is like oh my god it's it's embarrassing that the
world's falling apart everybody's like evil
everybody's the corruption around the world and society
it's it's it's but isolation is not the
(14:24):
key neither there are parents who want to isolate their kids
isolation it's harmful
because these kids are not going to know how to interact because they eventually
have to join the workforce they eventually have to join the rest of the world
in life and since they are they grew up isolated all their young lives,
(14:50):
they don't understand social cues,
nor how to interact,
that they will eventually,
because they don't know how to interact or have social cues or know how to converse
with people, they will develop an anxiety.
And that anxiety is going to push them to stay isolated for the rest of their lives.
(15:11):
You think, tell me, do you think this works? No, No, because that's why there's
a failure in society, because also there's a lack of interaction.
These kids, my gosh, to get them to say something, it's so hard.
Now, imagine somebody who is not on social media and it's been isolated all their lives.
It's it's it's it's it's falling apart. We need to talk to our kids.
(15:36):
But some other parents may say, it's because I don't want to talk to them right
now. They're so innocent.
Oh, my God, they're so little. That's what you think. Like I said earlier,
their peers, there's little kids already in elementary school with phones.
And let me tell you something.
They are hearing and seeing stuff through their friends' phones.
(15:59):
So you still need to talk to them. It's because, oh, they're innocent.
Oh, that's what you think.
Somebody's beating you to that innocence but i don't have i didn't give him
a phone yeah but his peers have a phone have a tablet in school and they're
seeing stuff they're hearing stuff,
so you're gonna you're gonna keep thinking that they're innocent but by the
(16:21):
time that you want to talk to
them they're they were already corrupted yes well those parents are also
you have to understand that you say i'm gonna ask you something let me ask you
something do you think Do you think there's bad parents out there?
Yes. There's always a good and a bad of something.
There are bad parents out there. Who let their kids do anything? Yes.
(16:46):
Parents who are mad at the world? Yes.
That don't believe in traditional way of family? Yes.
Yes. Well, those parents are also teachers in our schools.
Not all teachers. There are some amazing teachers out there.
(17:07):
But those kinds of parents that you don't want to be around because they are
bad parents, some of them are teachers.
Some of them range from elementary school, kindergarten, all the way to high school.
So if you are not going to take the time to raise your kids and teach your kids,
these teachers at school, these bad parents that are teachers at school are
(17:30):
going to raise your kids.
Yeah, they are the ones that are going to do it for you. And you are the one
that's going to have to deal with the results.
You are the one that's going to have to stay up all night.
You are the one that is going to get the call that they've been arrested. arrested
you are the one that they're gonna call
when they've been evicted because you didn't take time to parent this needs
(17:56):
to be done at a young age parents first friends second not the other way around
guys it is important that we keep this in mind it is important that we assess,
our family's life our family's dynamic our family's communication there is a
huge lack of communication with all these devices in our hands.
(18:18):
So I want you to stay sharp. Thanks.
Welcome to Straight TV. Have you wondered and even asked your friends,
your relatives, your mom, your dad, your spouse, why the world it is what it is now?
Why there is a failure in today's society, culturally, spiritually, even financially?
(00:25):
Everything is related. it. Society is what it is right now because there has
been a failure in the works.
And that failure, it's parenting. Nobody really mentions it.
Nobody really talks about it.
Nobody wants to even acknowledge that there has been a failure in our homes.
(00:50):
There has been a failure as parents.
The disconnect from consequences in today's kids is non-existent they don't
understand that there are consequences you remember the the two teenagers who ridiculously.
(01:12):
And without any remorse without any feelings ran
over that i believe it was a next police chief
in vegas he was on his bicycle in the
morning and these two teenagers uh laughing
it out even recording it themselves ran him over and the disconnect that they
had no remorse sitting in the courtroom laughing at each other uh smirking looking
(01:38):
at each other like until the judge passed as sentencing.
And even then, they were still unfazed, like so disconnected with reality,
so disconnected with the repercussions of their actions.
That is today what's happening to society. The lack of social skills,
(02:01):
the lack of motivation in today's kids, no sense of responsibility.
And the moral compass? Non-existent. There is no more moral compass on today's
society's kids like it was when we were growing up.
And even then, I am a parent now, and even growing up, I saw the shift in the
(02:29):
traditional values of a home.
There was already a shift happening when we were growing up.
All this is a result of a catastrophic failure as parents.
Teachers have complained that students email them for material questions with acronyms and emojis.
(02:54):
Can you believe that? They no longer even want to write out a real question.
Just acronyms and emojis. The
students are asking questions like that These kids are
oblivious to the lexicon and
the syntax in life Even though
(03:15):
this problem is also attributed to poor quality education This failure starts
at home Everything in our lives starts at home If at home we have a dysfunctional environment,
an abusive environment, it's going to shape our life.
(03:37):
So everything starts at home. It depends how, it depends on our upbringing.
That's going to shape us. What happens at home? At what point does the failure begin?
When we choose to be their friends first and parenting is an afterthought.
Think about that. That's when the failure starts happening.
(04:00):
When we rather be our kids' friends and parenting, it's eventually.
Friends want always to be liked. Always our friends, they seek our validation.
Our friends seek always to be liked, to be fun to be around. Why?
(04:23):
Yes, it's normal, right? Right. We rather want to be liked by our kids.
Therefore, we don't want to discipline our kids because I don't want to be my
I don't want my kid to be mad at me.
So yeah, I go along. I'm cool. I let them go. I let them do.
I don't nag them.
(04:46):
Why? Because I'd rather be their friends. I want them to like me.
As parents, it means we are not being responsible.
We are not being responsible as parents when that's our mentality from the get-go.
Having kids, it's a responsibility and a big responsibility at that.
So how do we expect our kids to learn to be responsible if we are not ourselves?
(05:11):
We do everything for them. We don't want to bother them to do anything because
we want to be liked. We don't want them to be upset.
That is wrong. They need to learn at a young age that everybody puts in hard
work. Everybody has to do their part.
Everybody has to pull their own weight. And I've seen how some parents do not
(05:35):
want to bother the kids for anything.
They will even lose sleep, miss some meals, to do everything around the house
than to ask the kids for help.
You're doing your kids a disservice by doing that.
That's why this young generation doesn't want and cannot keep a job.
(06:01):
They don't. There is a huge drop in the employment growth because all these
kids who are graduating from this generation, they don't want to work.
They want to be influencers.
They want to have a good amount of social media followers to get paid.
(06:24):
They want to be youtubers they want to be bloggers because they grew up seeing
this on a daily basis so they feel like work clock in and clock out that's ridiculous
they don't they don't it's not it wasn't engraved in their identity that you have to work.
(06:45):
Also, we don't want to be bothered as parents. That's another part.
That's another problem.
As parents, we don't want to be bothered. We are consumed in our life.
We are consumed as millennials or Gen Xs.
We are consumed with our lives.
We are consumed with our friendships.
(07:06):
We are consumed because we grew up. We grew up also when social media was beginning.
Again, Instagram, Facebook.
If you go a little bit further, it was MySpace. We grew up tasting what it is
to be part of this movement.
(07:26):
So we ourselves are consumed as parents with social media. So we don't want to be bothered.
So at a young age, we gave our kids the phone or a tablet.
Here, here's a phone. Here's a tablet. Leave me alone. Don't bug me right now.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, sure, whatever, figure it out or whatever,
do it yourself or I don't care.
What things, when things don't pan out, we ask, what happened?
(07:52):
Yes, when they grew up and we're like, what happened?
Well, rather than you raising your kids, social media raised your kids.
Social media raised them for you because you don't want to be bothered.
Oh, come on. You have an antiquated mentality. They need to be freethinkers Okay,
(08:16):
You're going to have those free thinkers living with you in your home forever.
Because if you fail as parents, they will fail in life, in their relationships.
They'll fail at work, in their finances, and they will fail as parents as well.
Because our psychological pattern is transferred to our kids.
(08:41):
If we were lousy parents, lazy parents, absent parents, or irresponsible parents,
that pattern, that psyche is going to get transferred to our kids.
So if we failed and, quote unquote, we let our kids be free thinkers,
let them have the freedom that I didn't have.
(09:03):
Okay, you're going to have those free thinkers living under your roof forever.
They're going to come and go and fail because we fail as parents first.
They will fail as parents themselves.
They will fail in their relationships. They will fail at work.
They will fail in their finances.
Listen, no parent is perfect. We have our deficiencies. I'm not saying I'm perfect.
(09:26):
You're not perfect. Our parents had their problems and their deficiencies.
That's why we have the capacity to correct what our parents did wrong.
There are some things that our parents did wrong with us. Yes,
that now as parents, we're like, whoa, now I should do it differently instead.
This approach that my parents took on me didn't work out. I didn't like the
(09:48):
way they talked to me like that. So let me talk to my kids differently.
So the key word here is correct. What our parents may have done wrong, raising us.
And I say correct. Rick, you correct something and you still keep using it.
You keep applying it, not throw it away.
Everything that encapsulates how to be a parent, you're going to throw it out
(10:11):
the door because our parents were...
Our parents failed. If you say that, no, you don't know my parents.
You don't know my dad. You don't know my mom. They were horrible. They weren't there.
Okay, so you're going to throw parenting out the door? And rather than being
a parent, you're going to be a friend because you don't want to correct and apply.
No, correct and apply.
(10:34):
Not, oh, I don't want to correct. I'll just throw it out. That's what a lot of parents are doing.
And once the kids grow up and
they are teens we notice they are a little rebellious and a little disobedient
then we want to be parents and it doesn't work it doesn't work on them anymore
and we still have the nerve to say what happened but i gave them everything that's the problem,
(11:01):
i was there for nothing everything they
needed everything they wanted i get that's the problem that is
the problem if you spoil your
kids you will raise your grandkids if
you raise your kids you will spoil your grandkids but it's because you don't
(11:23):
understand i had a helicopter parent my mom was always on top of me like oh
my gosh i couldn't stand it she was always behind me I don't want to be like that.
Well, that's what you're going to correct.
We need to be better parents than our parents were.
First, we're going to be parents and friends second.
(11:46):
When you communicate at a young age, you have the freedom to teach.
Once you make time in your life to teach your kids, when they get older,
you don't have to force them to do anything.
And that's the thing. Once they get older and we see that they're being rebellious,
(12:06):
we want to force them to be obedient.
We want to force them to now do this, help me with that, clean your room.
Now we want to force them to study, read, and try to get a job.
If we took the time
in our lives and when they were young and
if we sat there with them and talk to them there is no need when they get older
(12:32):
to try to force and then the and then you that's when you say but what happened
that's what happened you didn't take your time to talk to them at a young age,
Because you took time of your life to instill in them responsibility,
respect, accountability, hard work, determination, be courteous, etc.
(12:56):
At a young age, you need to teach these kids this.
Responsibility, respect. All these things are absent in today's society,
in today's kids, in today's young adults.
Holds responsibility, respect, accountability, hard work, determination,
being respectful and courteous, etc.
(13:19):
You see how the pattern develops of what's deficient?
That's why I don't give a phone or a tablet to my kids, some other parents say.
There's no way that I'm going to give my kid a phone or a tablet. You know what?
His or her friends or peers at school have a phone.
(13:42):
So you still have to put in the work. Don't think by you not giving your kids
a phone or a tablet at a young age doesn't require for you still to put in the
work. You still have to put in the work. Why?
Because they may not have the phone, but their peers at school,
other kids at school may may have a phone and a tablet
(14:02):
so you still need to talk to your kids you still
need to put in the work isolation doesn't
work neither that's why i don't that's why since the
world is like oh my god it's it's embarrassing that the
world's falling apart everybody's like evil
everybody's the corruption around the world and society
it's it's it's but isolation is not the
(14:24):
key neither there are parents who want to isolate their kids
isolation it's harmful
because these kids are not going to know how to interact because they eventually
have to join the workforce they eventually have to join the rest of the world
in life and since they are they grew up isolated all their young lives,
(14:50):
they don't understand social cues,
nor how to interact,
that they will eventually,
because they don't know how to interact or have social cues or know how to converse
with people, they will develop an anxiety.
And that anxiety is going to push them to stay isolated for the rest of their lives.
(15:11):
You think, tell me, do you think this works? No, No, because that's why there's
a failure in society, because also there's a lack of interaction.
These kids, my gosh, to get them to say something, it's so hard.
Now, imagine somebody who is not on social media and it's been isolated all their lives.
It's it's it's it's it's falling apart. We need to talk to our kids.
(15:36):
But some other parents may say, it's because I don't want to talk to them right
now. They're so innocent.
Oh, my God, they're so little. That's what you think. Like I said earlier,
their peers, there's little kids already in elementary school with phones.
And let me tell you something.
They are hearing and seeing stuff through their friends' phones.
(15:59):
So you still need to talk to them. It's because, oh, they're innocent.
Oh, that's what you think.
Somebody's beating you to that innocence but i don't have i didn't give him
a phone yeah but his peers have a phone have a tablet in school and they're
seeing stuff they're hearing stuff,
so you're gonna you're gonna keep thinking that they're innocent but by the
(16:21):
time that you want to talk to
them they're they were already corrupted yes well those parents are also
you have to understand that you say i'm gonna ask you something let me ask you
something do you think Do you think there's bad parents out there?
Yes. There's always a good and a bad of something.
There are bad parents out there. Who let their kids do anything? Yes.
(16:46):
Parents who are mad at the world? Yes.
That don't believe in traditional way of family? Yes.
Yes. Well, those parents are also teachers in our schools.
Not all teachers. There are some amazing teachers out there.
(17:07):
But those kinds of parents that you don't want to be around because they are
bad parents, some of them are teachers.
Some of them range from elementary school, kindergarten, all the way to high school.
So if you are not going to take the time to raise your kids and teach your kids,
these teachers at school, these bad parents that are teachers at school are
(17:30):
going to raise your kids.
Yeah, they are the ones that are going to do it for you. And you are the one
that's going to have to deal with the results.
You are the one that's going to have to stay up all night.
You are the one that is going to get the call that they've been arrested. arrested
you are the one that they're gonna call
when they've been evicted because you didn't take time to parent this needs
(17:56):
to be done at a young age parents first friends second not the other way around
guys it is important that we keep this in mind it is important that we assess,
our family's life our family's dynamic our family's communication there is a
huge lack of communication with all these devices in our hands.
(18:18):
So I want you to stay sharp. Thanks.
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I’m Jay Shetty host of On Purpose the worlds #1 Mental Health podcast and I’m so grateful you found us. I started this podcast 5 years ago to invite you into conversations and workshops that are designed to help make you happier, healthier and more healed. I believe that when you (yes you) feel seen, heard and understood you’re able to deal with relationship struggles, work challenges and life’s ups and downs with more ease and grace. I interview experts, celebrities, thought leaders and athletes so that we can grow our mindset, build better habits and uncover a side of them we’ve never seen before. New episodes every Monday and Friday. Your support means the world to me and I don’t take it for granted — click the follow button and leave a review to help us spread the love with On Purpose. I can’t wait for you to listen to your first or 500th episode!