My daughter has no respect for adults. Last week she told off a staff member at her primary school.
It was recess, and all the kids were playing in the school yard. Two little children, who had just started school, were talking to each other in the language they speak with their families at home.
“You should be speaking English,” the staff member – not a teacher – scolded them.
My daughter overheard and jumped to the defence of the girls.
“You can’t say that!” she said. “They can speak whatever language they like.”
My daughter is 10, and in the last year of primary school. She doesn’t hesitate to give her opinion to anyone.
She went camping recently, and a group of adults was leading a singalong around the campfire. One of them handed out song sheets. My daughter stood up to raise objections to some of the songs, including one about putting frogs in a blender.
“It’s cruelty to animals!” she announced to the bemused adults. “We shouldn’t sing these songs.”
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Kids shouldn't fear adults, but they should respect them. Fear and respect are two different things and it sounds like you and your daughter both need to be taught the difference. Nothing wrong with teaching a child to stand up for themselves or others, but they need to learn how to do it with respect and kindness not arrogance and a self-centered, know-it-all attitude. Frankly your daughter sounds like a selfish spoiled brat spouting opinions about things she may or may not understand. She may even be repeating things you have said in your home thinking it's OK for a child to repeat those things. You say you are raising kids to see adults as equals, and there in lies the problem. Parents are no longer being parents, like you they are teaching their children they are the equals of adults, and they are too busy trying be their child's friend rather than their parent. Right now you are supposed to be a parent, teaching your child, raising them, listening to them, guiding them. When they become actual adults then you become their friend.
I second what you said
I am shocked a parent thinks its okay to tell adults off at a camping trip over a silly song.