Any time I see pictures on the news of the poor kids in Africa & Asia (Tsunami) who have nothing, some with no parents, they are always so happy to see the reporters or famous people who are out there doing charity reports for things like sports aid, comic relief and Live 8 - I wonder if it is us in the western world who have got it all wrong with spoiling our kids. It makes me feel so ashamed and humble. What do you think?
2006-07-13 03:50:43 · 22 answers · asked by missieclass 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
yes i totally agree
kids are growing up without getting to know the value of things.they see excess everywhere and waste everything so much. they dont know how to share.they are not being taught that it is just one planet we have.
they should realize that they cant expect instant gratification everytime and all their wishes need not be granted in this world which might be quite unfair sometimes.
make the kids grow up strong and giving .dont let them become little images of ourselves who have lost all innocence and wonder and charm of childhood.
2006-07-13 03:58:49 · answer #1 · answered by mnachuri 2 · 11⤊ 0⤋
If we were to give any child that comes from a poor background a bowl of rice it would be the best thing for them - at the time... The next time you give that child a bowl of rice it would want more so that it could share it... and so it goes...
We've got feelings and one of those feelings it the need to give and take, more and more. The more we take the more we grow and because we grow we shoud want to share with others who also grow........ It's relative. If you have nothing then you don't miss anything. It's when you have something and then it's taken away (Tsunami) that's the sadness, the loss of support and love. I can't imagine the feeling losing everything. Not having anyone / anywhere to turn.
Yes I get angry when I see Kids in the western world spoilt. Given everything.
Being selfish.
Not sharing.
Throwing tantrums when they can't have the latest computer game or designer trainers.
We have bought up a generation of materialistic children who think that money is the be all and end all.
They think that being poor happens to other people -
and never to them.
It can all be taken away from them too. Maybe not by a Tsunami or plague but by loss of family, home, everything.
I have friends who have lost everything with their children badly burnt - they lost three of their five children, their home and all their wordly goods. - as I said it can happen.....................
Makes you think???
2006-07-13 11:16:58 · answer #2 · answered by Hedgehog 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I agree completely.
When I was younger I didn't appreciate what my parents meant when they said :
" Eat that, there are children starving in other parts of the world "
I just thought "Feed them then!.. I'm full!" without realising how difficult that simple sounding task actually was...
In this day and age kids have their own personal mobile phone when they are starting school to keep in touch with family and friends, they have a thousand T.V. Channels to choose from, a million and one computer games, MP3s, Consoles, wireless and internet gaming... They could, if we let them, never leave the house and have a more active social life than when they actually go and visit their real life friends.
When I was a kid I had four channels, a Betamax video recorded, a phone with a padlock on it and a field at the back of the house... I was spoiled back then too, but if you took the kids of today and put them in that situation they would think they were living in the third world.
2006-07-13 11:09:33 · answer #3 · answered by just_another_user 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes and yes. And it's not their fault. It's the fault of the parents and the schools and the advertisers and everyone else who presents them with the idea that they have rights without resonsibilities and that they have to have the best of everything,
without learning the cost.
I think, too, that American kids are not taught to give back--to help others--not in Africa, but just around their own neighborhood. And how can they be, when both parents are working, or they come from broken homes, or they've been raised on welfare for two or three generations, have not been taught respect for others, and have never learned to bear the consequences of their own behavior.
2006-07-13 10:56:29 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Our Kids are receiving more luxury items now than they did 20 years ago. There are various reasons for this. More disposable income in Developed countries, A guilt complex by both parents working in the labour force, Marketing & advertising. Peer pressure on kids from others. These reasons are valid in a richer society, where parents wish to give the best opportunities to their kids, particularily as the parents had to do without in tighter economic conditions.
I have no problem with kids receiving more if it is in their general educational and development needs, to allow them improve their overall knowledge base, and yet give them an understanding of the situation prevailing for less beneficial kids worldwide. Access to TV, and computer technology, allows for greater communication worldwide, and disadvantages in particular areas should be highlighted to kids, to balance those fortunate kids compared toi the have nots
2006-07-13 19:01:26 · answer #5 · answered by Pearse A 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Bad parents raise bad kids. In my childhood I had most of what I needed and some of what I wanted, but I also had to get a job and pay for most of my own things.
Older kids now have hundred dollar cell phones and designer jeans with twenties sticking out of the pockets. My parents were wealthy, but never treated me like I deserved any of that money without work. My generation is half spoiled, and will never be fully independent from their parents and the flowing cash they supply.
2006-07-13 10:58:09 · answer #6 · answered by reverenceofme 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes they spoilt brats glad have no grand children. lot grown ups have to much as well we lost all values in this country, most parents to day were like the kids they got. having a deg does not make you know it all like a lot think they do, i know of people with good deg and they have not a clue how to survive,you can not buy common sense, or. most can not even hold a pen correctly,well they have to live with it, i had a very long life , may be see 90, see what happens.
good maners.
2006-07-13 11:11:57 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think kids today are forgetting how to use their mind instead of machines. Most have to many toys and have forgotten how to use their imaginations. We always try to make life better for our kids than what we had. I made my son work for it so he would appreciate what he had. We always donated good toys to kids who had less. Not all parents see it the way I did, but I have a good boy, and he is not spoiled like a lot of today youth. Good question! :-)
2006-07-13 10:58:30 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
kids do ex[ect to much. I never had much of anything not even a house just a car to live in, i didnt even expct a home.
But i think that all kids should expect and be happy with is a mom,dad (if Around) and and home with food and basic needs.
Everything else is lucky and they should not expect more than that.
2006-07-13 10:57:00 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes kids nowadays are way too spoiled. We are to blame as a society and as parents too because we let society dictate what should be done and things we should give our kids. Look at adds on t.v. Kids want anything and everything. In the end, it is up to the parents to provide adequately to their children and not give up on anything they want and ask for. This will teach them that if you want something in life you have to work for it, not just ask and be served with it on a silver platter
JMO :)
2006-07-13 10:53:36 · answer #10 · answered by legal_secretary_in_montreal2001 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes we do spoil our children and as each generation passes it gets worse If I look at the things my children had and then look at what my grandchildren have it seems worse and to be honest the struggle that parents put themselves through to provide for their ever increasing wants is ridiculous
2006-07-13 10:55:11 · answer #11 · answered by citta_uk 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋