Is this bad parenting?

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
So I want to ask the question is this good
parenting or not good parenting? Because I saw something pop
up on Instagram and I'm going to pledge my allegiance.
I think it's excellent parenting. And it reminded me of
when I was younger, fighting in the car and my
parents saying, if you don't be good, we're going to
pull out, pull over and you're going to have to

(00:20):
walk home.

Speaker 2 (00:23):
Yeah, exactly.

Speaker 1 (00:24):
So anyway, this is what I saw. So it was
a couple of kids walking on the side of the
road holding hands. There'd be about ten. This is an
Australian parenting person and it's gone absolutely viral even overseas.

Speaker 2 (00:40):
Now.

Speaker 1 (00:41):
The little girls wearing kind of a rashie and swimmers
and the kids wearing boardies and brothers wearing boardies and
a single top and they're walking down the side of
the highway and their mum's obviously filming them. And this
is what was on the post. Okay, the kids were fighting,
so I told them if they didn't stop fighting, I
would I have one kilometer away and make them walk

(01:02):
home holding hands. I told them if I see them
not holding hands, they'll have to walk an extra kilometer.
They have not fought since.

Speaker 2 (01:14):
Ah, that's yes, that's old school.

Speaker 1 (01:17):
It's so old school now. It's had a lot of
hate from people saying, you know, you're just letting your
kids walk in just swimmers. You know they're being son safe.
They're walking down the side of a road that's not
safe as well. So the mom's on there and she's defending, saying, look,
we live in a small beach town. I was in
the car driving the whole time watching them.

Speaker 3 (01:37):
That's why I.

Speaker 1 (01:37):
Could film it. And it's a bike track that they
were walking on. It was completely safe. Leave me alone.

Speaker 3 (01:45):
Can't calm your farm?

Speaker 1 (01:46):
Leave me alone? Even though I posted this as perhaps
a parenting idea for discipline. So I just want to
ask the question, do you think that's good parenting or
bad parenting? Because I saw it and I went, I reckon,
that's good. I reckon, that's parenting. The kids had to
hold hands for a kilometer, knowing that mum's driving and watching.
They haven't fought since, and the picture of them, the

(02:07):
video of them like they're giggling, going to have it
a laugh, But I think it's hilarious. What do you reckon?

Speaker 4 (02:13):
I think it's fine. Honestly, people get too what are
they thinking? People get so uptight the mums. They're filming it,
so clearly they're safe. Yes, it wasn't like when my
dad dropped me and my brother off on the country
road and he drove out of sight, literally down this

(02:34):
straight road.

Speaker 1 (02:34):
In the country, and then what happened.

Speaker 2 (02:36):
He didn't come back for ages, so he didn't we
and we were young, we were so young, and then
then all of a sudden it came back and we
were quiet, as quiet as anything.

Speaker 1 (02:48):
Did you ever fight again?

Speaker 2 (02:49):
Yes, it's still fighting, but in the immediate like in
the immediate time. No, But that's what I want to hear.

Speaker 1 (02:59):
Do you think is good parenting bad parenting? And what happened?
I remember my parents did it for my brother, but
he was so stubborn. He didn't walk home. He just
sat on the side of the curb where he was dropped,
didn't move.

Speaker 4 (03:10):
Oh see that's a gazump.

Speaker 2 (03:11):
It was a bit of a goods then, like it's like, I.

Speaker 4 (03:14):
Want to go home?

Speaker 2 (03:15):
Depends more stubborn, Yeah, and I can't say then it's
a sit off. Yeah. What all you can hear is
the whistle from the good, the bad, and the.

Speaker 1 (03:26):
So what do you think good parenting or bad parent
To say to your kids? If you don't stop fighting,
You're gonna walk a kilometer and you have to hold
hands the whole way.

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