I am 16 and i constinatly find my self increasingly more fustrated at my OWN GENERATION!!! Issues such as gangs of youths attacking innocent old and young people alike. Why is this happening? have these THUGS no sense of humanity no sense of responcibility, only caring for them selfs.
How do we sort them out?
Is national service the way forward? I am part of the cadet force and i have found it has made me a better mannered person.
2006-10-02 06:05:51 · 10 answers · asked by alex k 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
Questioner excluded (as he seems a well rounded individual, not given to flights of moronic behaviour) I would take every boy and girl (for that is what they still are at 16,17 and even 18 these days) and force them to do at least one full years National Service. Not the politically correct National Service you see on Bad Lads Army, but real National Service, staffed by real soldiers who won't pussyfoot about with these scumbags, driven by the moral standards of the nineteen forties and fifties - not todays liberal ways. Teach them some discipline and respect for their elders and betters. Some of the parents of this generation could do with it as well though.
2006-10-02 06:22:35 · answer #1 · answered by Phlodgeybodge 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Every older generation says this about the previous one! Why are you so negative? Maybe you read too many depressing newspapers or live in an area with lots of old people? You are 16 why are you not out enjoying yourself before your middle aged and dull. Young and dull is not good! You need more fun in your life!
National service is a step backwards! I want to be protected by a professional army!
I have a 3 year old son and a 7 year old daughter and I would fight to the last breath to keep my children OUT of the army!
What teens need is understanding and love. Not boot camp or getting their brains blown out in the middle East!
What THUGS??? Where are they? None where I live!
Well mannered but dead children! No thanks! Go and play toy soliders if you like but keep MY children out of it!
2006-10-02 08:21:23 · answer #2 · answered by Nicola H 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
I think we need to backtrack and bring back the old values and ways. Old fashioned family life, where parents have the time to instill good values, is the best one. I don't believe in battering, but some of the old style corporal punishment did seem to enable kids to get control of themselves and think of what other people go through. The school system needs to get out of the way and let parents discipline their kids again. Where I live, it is not enough that you are not allowed to spank; if you yell or scream and the kid reports it at school, they can go after you for "emotional abuse." It happened to me. And I don't yell or scream very much, but that time my son's behavior was out of control. I have been told that if my teenage son chooses to punch me out, I have no right to defend myself or I can be charged with "domestic violence." If kids can't learn the limits in their own families, they usually don't learn it in normal society either. Perhaps a national boot camp is better than nothing and will do some good.
2006-10-02 06:55:15 · answer #3 · answered by Brigid O' Somebody 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I wish there were more young people like you. Perhaps there are but they don't make the new headlines. I think that parents should teach children right from wrong. I would also like to see corporal punishment in schools for serious offences.
2006-10-02 06:20:35 · answer #4 · answered by ? 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
First in ordered to sort them out is to go to the source of the problem and ask them why do they turn there life to this ? And get them help and maybe they should turn their life around them some of them but don't give up on them
2006-10-02 06:21:49 · answer #5 · answered by Crystal G 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Respond with equal measure, not necessarily force. "Learning starts at Home." I think it's time for irresponsible parents to go to boot camp to learn caring for another and they and their family are not an island unto themselves.
2006-10-02 08:56:20 · answer #6 · answered by mmmporg 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Boot camp or national service this works in other countrys
2006-10-02 06:12:37 · answer #7 · answered by chelsea 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
EEEEK ! not another moral panic ! Adolescence is a condition that cures itself , in time . Eventually they become grumpy and middle aged old farts complaining about todays yoof .
2006-10-02 07:31:49 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
i think bringing back the cane and the strap will sort them. 6 months national service would also sort them
2006-10-02 06:18:14 · answer #9 · answered by BaconBits 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Smaking kids isnt the answer. Threatening them with a gun works better! jk
2006-10-02 06:10:32 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋