Hello, everyone, and welcome to the Your Village podcast, parenting beyond discipline,

the place to learn about all things parenting and get your questions answered.

I'm your host, Erin Royer-Asrelant.

In today's episode, I'm going to share some ways of dealing with disrespectful behavior

in children, the attitude, the rude and or condescending tone of voice.

Some psychologists and therapists are buzzing about this culture of disrespect that we're seeing

from children for their parents that seems to be infiltrating modern families.

So first I'm going to cover some information and quick background as to what these psychologists

and therapists are finding.

If you've watched the video on our website at Your Village Online.com about the introduction

to discipline, then you're familiar with the four different parenting styles and how one

of these in particular can lead to a culture of disrespect in the home.

This style is the permissive style and it is in high use today.

But even if you don't use the permissive style, disrespect can

often be exhibited and come into play, which I'll get to that in a minute. But first, let's just

dig into this permissive style just a little bit so you can understand it. Now, according to Leonard

Sacks, a family, and many, many other

therapists and psychologists also agree with his conclusions, myself included, there has been a massive

transfer of authority from parent to child over the past 30 years, so much so that the kids' opinions,

preferences, and wants have become at least as, but in some cases,

even more important than those of the parents. This, of course, leads to big problems with

entitlement and therefore disrespect. The detriments of using the permissive style are very

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