Kids are trying to grow up way too fast, and being way too promiscuous. I see so many questions on here where youngens' are asking about sex and partying, and the profiles on Myspace where they basically are asking for trouble. Why are teenagers, and even pre-teens, trying to act way older than their age? What is the desire to grow up so fast?
2007-02-25 15:59:11 · 14 answers · asked by whitanay 2 in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Adolescent
I don't know...I wish I didin't have to grow up as fast as I have to.
2007-02-25 16:04:11 · answer #1 · answered by ♥Me 3 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Colleen O said it all and said it well.
But, I will add that I see so many children on Y/A asking questions that they shouldn't be asking at 12, 13, and so on. I often wonder where their parents are and why the parents are not supervising them. My son is 12 and does have computer access. But, he is constantly supervised. I also know where he is every second of every day. But, I do it in a manner that he does not feel smothered. He has freedoms that are appropriate for his age. And there is no way that I would allow him on Y/A due to the adult content.
That is why kids are growing up too fast...because they are constantly inundated with adult information from television to the computer, from lack of parental supervision to "the wrong crowd".
I have heard and read parents say that they cannot be with their child 24/7. Sure they can. Children should be their parents' first priority.
2007-02-25 16:21:50 · answer #2 · answered by Abby 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
um, probably because no one like to be told what they can't do, no matter what age they are; so rebellion, and also being relegated to being a second class citizen until you're 18 because of laws you didn't make sucks - when people talk about why do teens want to grow up so fast, enjoy being a child I don't know what they’re talking about, because being a teen sucks, just ask one; and also because that's what all young people like to do (that's how college students act, you're basically just asking why are teenagers acting like college students); so because they can and because it's fun; and also it makes them look cool, or it makes them think they look cool, to their friends; so social pressure I guess you would call it but that’s really just saying that that's what society's like these days because everybody has social pressure, also maybe because kids are hitting puberty so much younger than they used to; so hormones, also because they've never done those things before, so curiosity, plus the decline of civilization, everybody feels like the world's not right so they're just going crazy.
sorry about the run-on sentence.
2007-02-25 16:19:34 · answer #3 · answered by kyla_bean 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋
I dont think it has to do with growing up too fast, i think it has to do with stupidity or the way you were raised. I'm 16 and most of the kids at my high school do it because they think it makes them look cool or to get attention. Personally I think it makes them look like idiots. The jocks and the cheerleaders as well as the other idiots at my school party every weekend. I never understood the thrill of getting high, taking prescription drugs, or getting wasted. But then again, my parents taught me morals and that at this point in my life, i should be more focused on education rather than trying to hook up and have sex with the quarterback.
2007-02-25 16:19:49 · answer #4 · answered by onetreehilln23l3 1 · 4⤊ 2⤋
Funny, I have a Myspace account and haven't had any problems. But that is beside the point. "Why are teenagers, and even pre-teens, trying to act way older than their age?" Because their parents have no interest in supervising their children's activities. There is NO NEED for a child/preteen/teen to have a computer with internet access in their bedroom. It should be in the family/living room or kitchen where their online activities can be monitored. Also those "net nannies" and "parental packages" are worthless, any smart kid can crack them in minutes. When we became internet accessable over 10 years ago I password protected our connection to the internet...and I changed the password daily, prior to my daughter getting anywhere NEAR the computer. When she wanted online I accessed the internet and I was right there with her while she surffed, chatted, emailed. She was not allowed internet access without parental supervision and it was one of the "priveliges" in otherwords she only got to be on it when she earned the time to be on it and the time on the computer was limited to an hour a day...same as the television/game syste (which also were not in her bedroom). Things went this way until she was 17 and was able to afford to purchase her own computer system. She was allowed to have internet access only when I got off of my computer because at that time we could only afford dialup and we had only ONE connection...and still she was limited to one hour and still I supervised her because we shared a bedroom as well at that time. When she got a job and was able to pay for half we upgraded to DSL and she "upgraded" to having her own inetnet connect and no one supervising her activities...afterall she was 18, and now at 21...she's on her own...Without parental supervison kids ARE going to grow up too fast, get into more trouble at younger ages...and don't blame it on the fact that more mother's are working...I worked most of my daughter's growing up and somehow I managed to know what she was doing and where she was 99.9% of the time. And when I didn't know I'd sure as hell find out.
2007-02-25 16:10:39 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 4⤋
Kids are growing up faster, but is there a reason? Maybe people are just maturing faster. Kids are shown more at earlier ages and don't have of a choice but to grow up faster. Promiscuous is just another generation thing. Profiles on myspace are only trouble if you let them be trouble. But it is very, very easy to protect yourself.
what's wrong with growing up fast?
2007-02-25 16:34:53 · answer #6 · answered by Kate 3 · 0⤊ 4⤋
More mothers are working than ever before, in two-family homes. Mothers have to work in single-family homes. Kids are left to entertain themselves unsupervised at earlier and earlier ages.
2007-02-25 16:09:53 · answer #7 · answered by kathyw 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Part of it is the media-we're surrounded by sex, drugs, and partying. Part of it is our peers-we THINK everybody else is doing it (even if they're not) so we do it, too. Part of it is our own choices-the wild life looks alluring.
2007-02-25 17:36:08 · answer #8 · answered by thereligiousrightisneither 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Half of the time, kids are trying to fit in with the "bad" crowd. Tha's the thing now and days.
2007-02-25 16:21:41 · answer #9 · answered by A Trustee 1 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Because they are teenagers, dont you remember what it was like?
2007-02-26 17:17:48 · answer #10 · answered by Dylan 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋