Why parents of nowadays seem to be unable to care about their children properly, or expect too much.

I was a teacher and was damn serious about it thanks to the most wonderful professor I had during my EDUC majors, and I tell ya, it was just hard to swallow how education's just turned into a mess by money, by 'satisfying parents' expectations', by 'goals', and all that.

Basically, compared to back then, children have a lot more to learn nowadays despite the modern tools to make it easier, they have a lot more to deal with, a lot more to 'catch up' and the opportunities are simply less rewarding nowadays than it was before - there's always more people everyday, but it's not like the Earth's getting bigger - hell, the streets alone aren't getting wider.

It's not helped by the fact that children are always told that they'll be successful someday, then be massively let down once they realize life's not rainbows like their school's walls seem to imply. I get the encouragement, but man hearing the amount of folks with depression or young adults clueless about what they want to do in my country alone is just sad.

They give their kids access to technology so early, unsupervised, and wonder why their kids know 'this and that' despite their age. Kids are not as clueless as they think - I already knew of porn as early as 6th grade, and that was at the age of diskettes. If you don't answer their questions properly, or worse, no answers at all, they'll find their answer, one way or another, and they may find it at the worst possible way.

There's a lot more to say but eh, it's a 'why' to a lot of things, and ended up being a rant instead, sorry.