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Jonas Harrysson, a teacher from Sweden, took to ranting on Facebook about how children of nowadays behave rudely:
'I have worked with kids for almost 16 years and there are several things that I’ve noticed children getting worse and worse at.
No.1. Children find it very difficult to be bored! There constantly needs to be something going on.
Please stop spoiling and servicing your children. It’s not dangerous for them to be bored sometimes.
No 2. I’ve met many parents who are soooo proud that their kids can read and count before starting preschool.
Well, I hate to break it to you, but reading and counting, they’ll learn to do soon enough. Teach them instead to play, to be a good friend, and to share.
My third point is that many children find it difficult to show gratitude, both to other kids and towards adults. Can they get “another one” is unfortunately often a first question – and “we only get one!?” is a common complaint I hear.
What happened to PLEASE!? And thanks for dinner, and thanks for the ride, and so on?
I have no children at the moment, but if I do sometime in the future I plan to teach them to play, to be good friends, to show gratitude and to be bored from time to time. Once they’ve learned those things, then I’ll teach them to read and count:)'
One of the epic responses he got was from a commenter Leslie Colpetzer Brink who wrote: ‘Please update AFTER you’ve had children. I LOVE how people, including you, feel as though they are the authority on raising children when they don’t have children of their own.
‘It’s easier to judge when you think you know what you’re talking about. The problem is….you won’t truly know until you’re a Dad. Just sayin’.’

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