It is our fault that our children's childhood is being stolen from them?

Answer 1

Society does put a lot of pressure on children to grow up too quickly. Although a lot of the responsibility for this does lie with the parents...

Answer 2

Every generation has a different meaning for childhood and what it is and should be. Every social strata has its own ideas about what childhood should be as an experience.

To the poor Victorian, childhood was work. The the rich counterpart, childhood was a rich experience of what that time had to offer.

The children of the pre-war era (WWII) had time to play and developed imaginative games.

Today children have different kinds of games. They don't involve much activity and are governed by progress in technology. For them, their childhood is a no less happy one than any of the previous generations because they do not do the same things.

Previous generations wanted to grow up more quickly than they did. Today's children need to grow up quickly to learn techniques to cope with the stressful, complex,demanding world we have made for them.

Nobody is stealing anything from anyone. It's just a FACT that every previous generation will tell you that there was more time and less stress and that children played more.

No they didn't.

Today's children just play different games.

Answer 3

What childhood. The years of innocent fun in a balmy world of make believe and imagination ,safe and protected from the outside world do not happen now. Parents are partly to blame, as is society as a whole.Kids have far too much now.They don't need all the electronic gear that is felt to be normal now. When I was a boy, there was no TV, no computers,No portable radios, in fact almost nothing.What did we do? We had a radio set , really ancient, listened to kids programmes, Monday night at 8, Dr Morrell etc. but most of the time if the weather was OK, which it seemed to be in those days, we played out in the local woods, we were cowboys and indians, or tarzan and the natives, Or Robin Hood. WE made swords, spears , shields, bows and arrows, from the trees and holly bushes and played our made up games for hours. On long days out after breakfast at home, our satchels containing a bottle of pop and a sandwich and perhaps a couple of bicuits we would roam through the woods and fields all day possibly travelling 7 or 8 miles and would eventually arrive home in the early evening starving hungry and dead tired.We were about 7 or 8 years old then.The fantasy adventures we made up were numerous.Modern parents would probably be aghast at the thought of their sons roaming around as we did,but in those days there wasn't any danger to us and our parents had no reason to worry forv our safety.Modern children miss all this and are much poorer for it.I tell my grandchildren what we used to get up to and they say Oh. we would love to do that grandad but we are not allowed to go to the park on our own and as for rambling all day nobody would consider it sensible these days.What a sad reflection on society this all is.Children sem to grow up so fast now. We didn't have long trousers till we were 14. I'm sure we were much happier then.

Answer 4

Yes it's our fault if you mean society as a whole. We've allowed the do-gooders to take away all discipline in the name of abuse and Parents now allow 5 year olds to dictate what they will wear, how they will behave, even when they will sleep and what toys they Must have so they can fit in with their friends! When I was growing up adult priviledges like choices in clothing had to be earned and others depended on age. We were expected to treat all adults with respect but not to talk to strangers (no mention of 'nasty individuals who preyed on the young')and yet had far more freedom than today's youth! My 10 year old neice would never be allowed to disappear for the day with just a picnic and a dog for company as I did at that age! We made our own amusements and older kids were expected to keep an eye on younger ones. I think we were far happier and what the youth of today seem to forget in the mad dash to grow up is that adulthood brings responsibilities and worries and lasts far longer than the precious childhood they are so determined to leave behind!

Answer 5

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Answer 6

What do you mean by "stolen from them"???
If you mean is it our fault that there is no longer the kind of discipline at school that used to exist prior to the seventies that used to turn our children into responsible adult citizens instead of the irresponsible workshy layabout hooligans they are becoming today, YES

Why?. Because we have allowed the political correct epidemic to take such a grip over our entire culture into the twenty-first century?

Answer 7

Absolutely! i know far too amny children who are too wise for their years.
alot of these childrens come from single parent families, and in those situations its very hard to hide the hardships of life from children - i know i was also a single parent a few years ago!
unfortunately, in those situations, children become very aware of how the one parent is feeling - they quickly learn about the things that upset the parent with care - my son turned to me and said that he never wanted to see his dad, cos when he did dad would upset me! Children dont need to be aware of these things.
My child saying this was a massive wake up call for me - it was an incredibly grown up thing to say and he was only 4! i realised that we were taking his childhood from him and that he felt responsible for me, when his concern should have for been sweets toys and parks.
PLEASE DONT TAKE THIS AS AN ASSAULT ON SINGLE PARENTS - ITS AN IMPOSSIBLE JOB WITH LITTLE SUPPORT, AND MOST DO A FANTASTIC JOB WITH VERY WELL DEVELOPED WELL ROUNDED KIDS,
i just think more need to be aware of the responsiblities their kids feel!

Answer 8

Children are living better those day then they live when I was a child of the 70s talking about no help and the late 60s
we never knew anything about welfare,food stampers etc
once we had 1 can of sweet potatoes I seen my mother cries because we don't have food in the house it hurt to see her that way but she continue she work hard and tried her best after my father left us with nothing but he continue to married about 5 times and left those wives the same way. Amazingly he was a Christian man and when to church all of the time LOLL that how he find his wives or can I say victim

Answer 9

I think it is in some ways but its also down to TV influences, toys ((Bratts dolls for example)) and society. Parents should get together and talk about what they do not want their children to be influenced by so parents have an understanding of what other mothers feel about things. Even childrens clothes are making them get way too grown up before their time

Answer 10

Yes, I think children are growing up way too fast. Already five year olds are wearing hoochie clothes and shoes with heels on them. When I was five I was still playing with Barbies and baby dolls. Today, children are watching cartoons that ten years ago people never would have dreamed of watching. Its really sad.