Why...Why...?

Question

Why are little kids so anxious to be adults?
Why don't children cherish their childhoods after they hit 14?
Why do parents let their 13 year old girls run around like tiny sluts?
Why are boys so eager to loose their virginities at 14?
What has happened to children!?

Am I the only one that's worried about the generation following mine? If "children are our future" and parents let their kids run amuck then I don't want to be aroudn to see our future!

Do you agree?

Answer 1

It's my personal feeling that parents are too busy working so they can pay for babysitters and iPods, and instead should be spending their most valuable gift - their time, with their children. Kids who aren't well supervised by THEIR PARENTS, not after school care or daycare, grow up way too fast.

Answer 2

Kids are always anxious to be adults, and adults wish they were still kids. You always want what you don't have or can't have. That's just the way it is. Some kids do run around like little sluts and gangsters, but I think that kids are the same as they always were, just now kids are more outspoken about what they are doing and people take more notice to it. Some kids are out of control and could definatgely use more parental guidance. I know what I was doing when I was 14, and I'll tell you it wasn't playing with dolls. I'm 27 now, my aunt is 60....completely different generations, but I was doing at 14 what she was doing at 13. Kids do the same things they always did, but now they actually tell their parents about it. I think things are better with kids feeling able to communicate with their parents.

Answer 3

TO ALL THE KIDS WHO WERE BORN IN THE 1940's, 50's, 60's and 70's !!WELL,MAYBE NOT THE 70'S............DAMN DISCO KIDS!!

First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they carried us.
They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a can, and didn't get tested for diabetes.
Then after that trauma, our baby cribs were covered with bright colored lead-based paints.
We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets and when we rode our bikes, we had no helmets, not to mention, the risks we took hitchhiking.
As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags.
Riding in the back of a pick up on a warm day was always a special treat.
We drank water from the garden hose and NOT from a bottle.
We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and NO ONE actually died from this.
We ate cupcakes, white bread and real butter and drank soda pop with sugar in it, but we weren't overweight because......
WE WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING!!
We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the streetlights came on.
No one was able to reach us all day. And we were O.K.
We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps and then ride down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. After running into the bushes a few times, we learned to solve the problem.
We did not have Playstations, Nintendo's, X-boxes, no video games at all, no 99 channels on cable, no video tape movies, no surround sound, no cell phones, no personal computers, no Internet or Internet chat rooms..........WE HAD FRIENDS and we went outside and found them!
We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were no lawsuits from these accidents.
We ate worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us forever.
We were given BB guns for our 10th birthdays,
Made up games with sticks and tennis balls and although we were told it would happen, we did not put out very many eyes.
We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just yelled for them!
Little League had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that!!
The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law!
This generation has produced some of the best risk-takers, problem solvers and inventors ever!
The past 50 years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas.
We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned
HOW TO DEAL WITH IT ALL!

(Kind of makes you want to run through the house with scissors, doesn't it?)

Answer 4

I can only say that, while the things you say are true in many places, there are a lot of shining examples of kids doing the right thing. I am a parent, and I am aware of a LOT of plain evil influences out there (this internet being a BIG one), things that we as kids, didn't have to face. We just gotta keep on trying to show the best to them, and with God's help, they won't be TOO deviated,...

Answer 5

Yup, I agree. I see how some parents let their kids grow up way too fast and I know that is something I won't advocate for my own children. Parents need a real reality check that letting your little girls dress like wh0res and saying sex is okay as long as you are "protected" is a bunch of bull. Parents need to start teaching morals and values to their kids and stop ignoring what their kids are doing.

Answer 6

so am i omg i on;y have a like 2 friends that agree with me the guys r all perverts and the 6th graders r like high or something the 7 th graders r all designer and some really stupid then high school sluts it is horrible i'm really worried i hope that the gererations mature and grow up and don't over popuate the earth but just to tell u don't worry we will change one kid at a time trust me and i will cherish my childhood u have more responibilities and tooo many descisions i love my childhood

Answer 7

Nope....cause when I was in the sixth grade, I was already wondering about graduating from High School and what I would be doing and who would I marry.
I was not a normal child. I stayed to myself alot, read the Newspaper and my favorite book was the dictionary.
I admired Women at the age of 4 and always constantly looking for a easy route in life, but found none until I graduated from College and then it hit me and I worked my dream and retired by the age of 40.

Answer 8

I agree that it's definitely something worth worrying about. What can we do about it though except 'try' and guide the ones close to us as best we can. Fact is, it's a different time now than it was 'then'. I'm not saying you could accept this, but just 'tolerate' it. Tolerate it out of others and expect much more out of your own kids, or the kids you might have in your life.

Answer 9

You are absolutely correct. Our society has lost interest in the family unit, therefore our youth are running wild. No parental supervision, no discipline, no family life. What does everyone expect of today's youth 10-20 or ever 5 years from now? Think about it, they are our future... SCARY, isn't it?

Answer 10

YES i agree whole heartedly, we didnt even think of boys in that way until we were older, but now they have sex education in schools, to young if you ask me, there are kids of 10/11 pregnant now, & there parents dont seem to be bothered, out of our whole school there was only one girl who got pregnant at 15, im glad we didnt have sex lessons at least we had our childhood, some women think its good to win the glamours granny contest, BUT in our day a granny was about 55 now they are about 32 & proud of it, its about time standards were lifted again, they have fell too low,