Growing up, we knew the difference between right and wrong. Then all of a sudden this new breed of kids are sprouting up thinking its ok to pretend to hang themselves (and actually do), shoot other kids because they don't get along with someone.. What is wrong with these kids? Really I should be asking what is wrong with their parents? Don't blame it on T.V, don't blame it on video games, don't blame it on music, don't blame it on movies..its not that simple.
2007-01-05 05:56:08 · 17 answers · asked by Bevin M 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
rat race living makes people neglect their family,most parents spend most of their time working,and kids are left alone by themselves with computers,with friends etc.
2007-01-05 06:00:47 · answer #1 · answered by dra shelley 3 · 2⤊ 2⤋
No, definitely not the music. I listen to The Wall on a weekly basis, and I'm definitely not up for an anti-Semitic protest any time soon. However, that might have something to do with it.
I blame it on bad parenting. There seems to be a lot of kids that I know that have bruises everywhere- some are the bullies at school. However, their victims never get a punch in, and they don't play sports. How else would they get so many bruises?
Also, I think a lot of it has to do with people's concerns that their child won't have a perfect life. All of my teachers have switched to purple pens because "a big, purple F on a paper isn't as alarming as a big red one". F's are supposed to be alarming. That's the whole point. "I can't let my child not get a trophy at his baseball meet! That'll hurt his feelings!" Yeah, but not giving him one for every time he breathes might just make him strive for more.
I also blame it on all of these tapes and shows for kids. I've seen it before- in a preschool I was once in, they would pop in Barney and sit around until lunch. That's it. No social interaction. Nothing. No morals being taught by real human beings.
Kids are like pit bulls- if they aren't raised right, you'll have one mean puppy afterwards.
2007-01-08 12:36:12 · answer #2 · answered by Leafy 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm 20 years old and I do noticed the idiocy among my generation. I would like to say that previous generation when they started out didn't look promising either just look at the 60s and they way they acted so I would like to see what will happen when me mature a little more but we are so hooked on these machines that we have lost some of the natural human ability like say having a normal freaking conversation instead of looking down every second texting bullshit that isn't important. We don't like to read and everything is still in a book. No matter what tech comes out, nothing will ever replace a book.
2016-05-23 06:21:43 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No they are not dumber, but our expectations for them have lowered the bar considerably. The blame definitely falls on the parents who are the primary teachers of kids, especially when it comes to values. The "everything goes" mentality of today's society prevents many of the parent/grandparent generation to teach the kids the rights and wrongs. They hear from so many sources that we should not be judgmental. Of course we should be judgemental. As we should be able to discriminate between right and wrong. Despite today's thoughts Discrimination is not a bad word!
2007-01-05 06:02:10 · answer #4 · answered by Aine 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I totally agree that it has to do with the parents that are not raising their kids these days and just letting them do as they please. If i was out past 9pm on a school night my @$$ would be red, these days its the norm...10-11-1am bedtimes just to get up at 7:50 and rush to school to be in class by 8. There are no standards these days! And as for truent officers, they need to bring them back! These days kids miss school and no one cares, the school doesn't even think twice about it...another thing when I was younger, if I missed a day of school (and this was high school too) the principal would be on the fon with my parents asking where I was.
Its not the tv, its not the video games, the music or the movies, its the plain fact that there are babies becoming parents and theres are parents allowing their babies to become parents!
2007-01-05 06:02:00 · answer #5 · answered by Athera78 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I think that overall kids today aren't as bad as the media would have you believe. I've worked as a school teacher and I never saw any behaviors that were over-the-top bad. Most kids don't do anything more serious than passing notes or using a little profanity. However, kids today are under a lot more pressure than they used to be in the past. I mean, my third graders were studying algebra!
2007-01-05 06:01:08 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Kids are being neglected by their parents and not given the chance to do anything productive. Locked up in school all day, they have no independence and no real respect. When they get out of school, they are bored, probably angry on some level, and have nothing to do, and no moral guidepost.
So us few teenagers with morals get screwed.
2007-01-05 06:01:54 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
I think it's the parent, then the environment. if you're looking on the other side of the scale, kid's average intelligent in academic is obviously higher than earlier generation (though their social behavior is pretty much the same, dumb as a rock)
2007-01-05 06:00:41 · answer #8 · answered by my alias 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
This is the me generation. Kids think that the world revolves around them, yet they needn't take responsiblity for it.
Notice the response of one person, parents are bad and teachers are dumb! That proves it. The bottom line is there are always bad teachers and always bad parents. But if you want to be successful, you do for yourself. You don't blame others.
"I can't do the test because my daddy beat me."
My response has and will always be "I can do the test, and will ace it, because my daddy beat me and I want to become rich and shove it up his rear!"
2007-01-05 06:00:52 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
I don't think kids are getting dumber, their sphere of infulence is changing, our countries morals are changing and the parents are not as strict as they used to be. People do what they want, and don't care about others anymore.
2007-01-05 06:09:23 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
parents are lazy and dumb. I remember once infront of my house late 70's. I went to run into the road without looking ( NO cars were coming but I didnt look ) my mother snatched me by my shirt and popped my butt and said next time you don't look, Ill push you infront of a car so you can understand it will kill you.
WELL folks til this day, I look both ways,lol
My parents parented. WE listened to alice cooper and floyd growing up and motley crue and judas priest and we were fine
The laws are to easy on teenagers oh and we had a paddle in our elementary school to buddy!
2007-01-05 05:59:58 · answer #11 · answered by BoTToms UP 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋