Do you think that kids these days are too spoiled or have too much?

Question

I also think a lot of them take things for granted and just spend their parents' money like there was no tomorrow...

I also think a lot of them take things for granted and just spend their parents' money like there was no tomorrow...

(Oh, and btw if anyone's bored can they answer my other question...?)

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Answer 1

A friend and I were just discussing this last night, let me tell you a little story if I may:

My friend is a 43 year old lesbian woman with a 17 year old daughter. My friend is a single mom with bipolar disorder and is currently not on the right medication. She doesn't work and relies on government assistance and child support to pay her bills. Her 17 year old daughter's prom is tonight.
Keep in mind this family has very little money. This 17 year old goes to a "ritzy" area high school, and this 17 year old has her head soo in the clouds, she threw a fit about not getting the "perfect" prom dress, even though her mom went and did a little wheeling and dealing with some seamstresses from another high school to do a "swap" on one of her old dresses, but it wasn't "good enough", so she had the woman she babysits for, buy her a 200.00 prom dress. Then, later that night, this 17 year old comes home, and tells my friend (her mom) that she needs $80.00 for limo, a STRETCH HUMMER, that the total cost is $1,800. Her mom (my friend) was like "$1,800?! Do you know how many homeless people you could feed, or how much clothes you could give to kids in a shelter? That would pay my rent for a few months!!" and you know her daugher's reply? "I don't care about the homeless, this is my PROM!!" ...yeah..I'm not kidding. My jaw about dropped to the floor when she said that. Anyway, this little stuck up snob's attitude about prom (and now graduation) has got her bipolar mom who works SO hard to be a good mom to her kid (she's never spanked her, she lets her go a lot of places and be social, she doesn't yell at her, she really is a good mom) but anyway, her mom has gotten so upset, she checked herself into a mental hospital, but they sent her home. She gets home and her ungrateful brat of a daughter says, "why are you here? you should be in the hospital, I was actually looking forward to seeing you gone. I don't want you here" and my friend actually slept in her SUV in a church parking lot last night becuase her own daughter was being a little b***h, and this girl is just too naive and self centered to see just how much her mom loves her. It's really sad, and it makes me sick.

Answer 2

Hate is an exceedingly stable be conscious, possibly in case you reported "dislike intensely" we would all get the image merely an identical (LOL). you're actually not unavoidably performing like as spoiled brat, yet merely like a classic youthful teenager, that's neither good or undesirable, merely frequent. As widely used, there seems to be like a loss of communique on your spouse and little ones, or no less than communique which you all comprehend. as an occasion, inspite of the certainty you gave your mom 3 weeks be conscious of your objective to coach interior the animal look after, you probably did not pay attention her say Monday wasn't a whats up for her. merely via telling her 3 weeks beforehand became unlikely to alter your mom's company conferences or besides the fact that. in case you had reported some thing alongside the strains "mom the education day is on a Monday, are you able to make a while to get me there and collect me" you've found out right this moment that it became unlikely to take place and you have tried to make another preparations. As for some allowance money, why not ask your dad to interfere via arranging a properly-known volume for you each week after which you will not experience as while you're being completely disregarded. you ought to furnish to do some chores around the living house for the money, like placing issues back the place they belong in this occasion averting your mom screaming at you.

Answer 3

I think that kids in the suburbs are spoiled way too much. I work in a grocery store, and I find it amazing that a parent will let their 3 or 4 year old order their own cake and when the kid pitches a fit if the parent says no, they think it's so cute and give in. Also, it's hard to find a teenager in the suburbs, at least in the one I live in, that doesn't have a car that daddy bought them. Some kids get everything handed to them and never get to know that you need to work for what you have.

Answer 4

I think a lot of kids today are spoiled. What I feel is sadder is the fact that they rarely have the time to wish for something because adults in their lives provide them with the latest games or new gizmo as soon at they come out.

Answer 5

i think some kids are, but i don't get an allowance, i have to buy my own car, buy my own clothes at american eagle or hollister if i want them (parents will pay for ones i need or are cheaper than 20 bucks a shirt) and i've spent my own money to get an ipod and stuff that i've wanted...although there are a ton of kids at my school that are way too spoiled

Answer 6

it's funny how the spectrum is so small. there many kids that have wayyy too much, and their allowance can probably be the same amount as some poor families make in a year, but there are also some kids whose families make so little, the only food that they get is in the public schools. and then that leaves the kids that have not too much, but not too little. but to answer your question, yes most kids do have too much things that they don't need, and only contributes to their laziness (mp3 players, cell phones, computers, etc...)

Answer 7

ya, i think some are

i will admit, i am a very spoiled child. But...i know that i am and i appreciate everything my parents give me. I realize i am very lucky.

what bugs me the most are spoiled brats who cant get a grasp of whats really going on and what is really important

Answer 8

Yes, I do. I work in an elementary school, they have far to much and don't know the meaning of discipline. The majority of kids at our school are rather rude, and these are just elementary kids.

Answer 9

Yes, they need to put down the xbox and the cell phone and the ipod and the pda and the game boy and do their homework.

Answer 10

not just the kids are spoiled i think we are a spoiled America.... we take to much for granted.