Example: i once held the door for like six and none of them said thank you, they just kept talking with each other. I should have told them it wasnt my daily job.
2007-03-25 07:53:33 · 21 answers · asked by Ashley 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
lack of discipline
2007-03-25 07:56:10 · answer #1 · answered by batman 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
No one teaches them matters anymore. I'm 16 and I try to be as polite as possible. I almost feel embarrassed to be a part of this generation. No one has manners or common sense anymore.
In FL you can spank your children as long as the mark does not stay on them more then 3 hours.
After 3 hours it is child abuse.
Everyone is so scared to spank their kids now it ridiculous.
But I must say its not just teens and younger kids that are rude, there are some adults as well. I have held the door for many adults as well and they have not said a thing to me. I always make sure to hold the door for people that are behind me.
I believe a lot of people now a days don't have manners, no matter what age.
Thank you.
2007-03-25 08:10:10 · answer #2 · answered by sllikylloh 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
There is a sense of entitlement that they have. I don't know why. "Nodody owes you nothin'" Sorry you were treated rudely, You would like to think that at least they had been taught manners. Apologies and congrats to any teens who are exceptions! And shame on all rude adults. Following might cheer you up:
Bill Gates recently gave a speech at a High School about 11 things they did not and will not learn in school. He talks about how feel-good, politically correct teachings created a generation of kids with no concept of reality and how this concept set them up for failure in the real world.
Rule 1 : Life is not fair - get used to it!
Rule 2 : The world won't care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself.
Rule 3 : You will NOT make $60,000 a year right out of high school. You won't be a vice-president with a car phone until you earn both.
Rule 4: If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss.
Rule 5 : Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your
Grandparents had a different word for burger flipping: they called it opportunity.
Rule 6 : If you mess up, it's not your parents' fault, so don't whine about your mistakes, learn from them.
Rule 7 : Before you were born, your parents weren't as boring as they are now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about how cool you thought you were. So before you save the rain forest from the parasites of your parent's generation, try delousing the closet in your own room.
Rule 8 : Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but life HAS NOT. In some schools, they have abolished failing grades and they'll give you as MANY TIMES as you want to get the right answer. This doesn't bear the slightest resemblance to ANYTHING in real life.
Rule 9 : Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you FIND YOURSELF. Do that on your own time.
Rule 10 : Television is NOT real life. In real life people actually
have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.
Rule 11 : Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one.
2007-03-25 08:06:11 · answer #3 · answered by jlc 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Excuse me? I am 15 and I hold the door for every person behind me and none of THEM say thank you! Not all of us are disrespectful, but somehow people tend to generalize us all into one bunch, even the few that have managed to break the mold. I'm not trying to be disrespectful, but with all due respect, please don't generalize us. We are not all the same. The kids that were rude to you are probably public-schooled, pot-smoking, uncleanly ingrates who wouldn't know respect even if it hit them in the head. In a sentence, please don't generalize us teens. We are human, too, and I've known adults with less respect than teenagers. They will get their just desserts when they apply for a job and can't get one cause they go all hotshot on their boss. You'll see that some teens are good and some teens are bad, just like adults.
2007-03-25 08:04:13 · answer #4 · answered by Justin B 4 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Because they want to be like those teenagers who have come before them. As for the bad manners of those six, someone older and wiser (like a parent) should teach them some better manners.
2007-03-25 07:57:22 · answer #5 · answered by danl747 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Our culture no longer teaches kids to respect their parents. Instead they are taught to believe that being stood up to by adults is abuse. They take everything good from you with a sense of entitlement; little do they know what their world is going to be like later.
2007-03-25 08:02:21 · answer #6 · answered by Brigid O' Somebody 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
probably because they feel like they are untouchable because of how they have everything handed to them on a satin pillow. it's so hard for them to receive proper discipline and many of them never learn good values because their parents are just as lazy. here's proof: i once held the door for a large family, like you, at a panera. the idiot fat ___ parents didn't even look at me, they just waltzed their obese buttocks into the restaurant. their 4-year old daughter was the only one who said thank you. i hope her grateful attitude lasts into her adulthood, unlike her parents.
2007-03-25 08:29:19 · answer #7 · answered by Adrian L 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't some are just jerks but I'm 17 and I'm grateful to people that help me out. I hold the door open for people too and onhly sometimes get a thank you.
2007-03-25 07:57:45 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
They never have to work for anything anymore (I am speaking in a general sense because there are many good teens) and they are never taught to appreciate the value of what they have.
This shows up in every area of life, when life, family, and country lose their value you will have the kind of society we find ourselves in.... it happened to the Romans too.
2007-03-25 07:58:16 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Parents now are so consumed with work that they dont have time to spend with children. Who else can teach our children manners or values? It is not the schools job to teach them that, it is all up to mom and dad.
2007-03-25 07:56:58 · answer #10 · answered by Asian Mami 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
respect needs to be earned.
a father who cheats on his family should not expect to be respected by his children. if a child can not respect his own father, how dose he or she know how to respect others?? With as many dysfunctional family's in this nation it is a wonder that anyone knows how to respect anyone anymore
2007-03-25 07:58:47 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋