Why are children so disrespectful, angry and and unappreciative these days???

Answer 1

"The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers.

ATTRIBUTION: Attributed to SOCRATES by Plato, according to William L. Patty and Louise S. Johnson, Personality and Adjustment, p. 277
(1953)."

Answer 2

Unappreciative Children

Answer 3

most of the time its because the parents are so disrespectful, angry and unappreciative these days.

I don't believe in the theory that children do what they see or what they are taught...however I believe children act out how they are treated as individuals.

Hoping that made sense.....
I also believe that children are more spoiled because parents try to make up for having to work more.

best wishes

Answer 4

Because they get away with it. I see so many kids mouthing off to their parents and the parents do NOTHING about it. There's no way in hell I would get away with disrespectful behavior like that when I was a kid. I knew that if I misbehaved, there would be consequences like not being able to go to a sleepover or having a favorite item confiscated! Nine times out of ten it's the kids raised by people with zero parenting skills that are like that. It's like they're scared to discipline them or something. They would rather appear cool in the eyes of the kid instead of teaching them how to act like human beings. But kids need their parents to PARENT them not be their best bud. As for the unappreciative ones I think it's a case of being spoiled, always getting what they want and therefore just expect things handed to them.

Answer 5

Because the parents do not care enough to try and teach their children how to act. They think that by being their child's buddy instead of a parent they are doing the best thing for the child, NOT!!!!! All that results in is the child kicking the parent's @ss, and then the ignorant parents just stand there and look stupid like they are a victim. Children need guidance in life and they are the direct result of their parents, so if you see some bad kids look no further than their parents. Children look to us for direction and when the parents act like 2 year old what do you expect?

Answer 6

Children are disrespectful, angry and unappreciative these days because God has been taken out of the home and schools. Moral values are not taught to children anymore and children are no longer punished for the wrong things they do. People tend to listen more to Dr. Phil than the Bible when it comes to raising children. Also children don't have any responsiblities in the home anymore. They just sit around playing the playstation and eating. Its' pitiful!

Answer 7

Because we were all raised by former disrespectful, angry, and unappreciative children who grew up and decided to fill the void in their lives by having children instead of getting therapy.

Thanks for passing the crazy torch mom!!

See...that's me appreciating...

Oh wait, I'm not a "children" anymore. Oy...and the cycle continues.

When I was a child I was very respectful and appreciative. Then I found out the adults were full of $hit and became quite angry and jaded.


I must say, kids really are rotten these days. I just want to smack those video game controllers out of their fat little hands and say "get your whiny lard @ss outside and play!!"

Answer 8

It is judgemental of you to make generalizations about all children, because they are not all"disrespectful, angry and unappreciative". My parents raised me to be to be a polite and respectful young lady. I volunteer, just made the Dean's List at college, and work to pay fo rmy college education myself, which I do appreciate very much. If children are disrespectful, angry and unappreciative it is probably because their parents raised them to be so, spoiling them and letting them get away with everything, and for thos kids, I feel truly sorry.

Answer 9

In a society like America where we're given everything we need in surplus, children - like their young parents - do not know what it means to be truly in need of anything. Sure we have a poverty line, but the fact is that the poorest people in America are still exponentially richer than people in third-world countries. To answer your question, children are disrespectful because they learn from their elders how NOT to treat others in the world - they ignore the problems and become too ethno-centric in believing that their day without television is their biggest problem. Children are angry because they don't know what true happiness is - true happiness isn't being able to get the "best," true happiness is being able to get what you need and knowing that that's a better thing to have than, well, nothing at all. And children are unappreciative because, as I stated, they are spoiled by a society that thrives on surplus, not on necessity.

Answer 10

No other reason is that they are raised that way, no better. Too many kids are spoiled and disrespectful yet get everything they want, also parents aren't vested enough in their children to really care, they are too involved in their own lives, social issues and do not focus directly on their kids and the problems they are having. A lot of children that act out are going through some form of trauma or trying to get attention even if in a negative way.

Answer 11

most of the time what a child sees from their parent is what the parent or others will see from the child. My children have always acted respectful toward me, but then again I try to act in a way that is respectful and will accept nothing else from my children, except their respect. It's not easy, but I believe that children try their parents to see what reaction they receive. Don't scream or holler, there are other ways of getting your child's attention.