What is wrong with children these days?

Question

They bully eachother so badly that kids hang themselves at 7 because of it...and in many cases the bullies TOLD them to do it.

Kids are having sex and doing drugs when they are about 11 years old at least.

They have NO respect for anyone or anything.

They are spoiled.

They have NO manners AT ALL!
When is the last time you saw some kid get up to let a senior or disabled person sit down on a bus even?!

It is ridiculous. I am only twenty years old and I cannot believe how disgusting these children are these days.

Now of course this is just a huge generalization--not all children are like this---but seriously...what the hell is up with this?!?!

I would just like to add in response to Anthony, that I am from THAT generation. I am 20 & I was taught to have manners, respect & all that jazz when I was so young, I cant even remember!
My brother & sister (both older) are the same too.
We have common decency.
Sure maybe I just have a great mom (which yes I do) you think, but meanwhile nearly every single person around my age that I know is the exact same way & was as a kid too. I was never instructed to do so, except for as a toddler while being taught to begin with. I use to help my elderly neighbour with her groceries even. Turn off people's lights in cars if they forget them on and the door isnt locked. Me & my siblings would shovel driveways & mow lawns for FREE! My generation also wasnt out screwing everyone at the age of 11 & getting high!
I agree that parents have a lot to do with this--I was hoping to shed light on the fact that we all should be focusing on this problem now before it gets out of hand (as if it hasnt already)

Ok...so now I feel I should ALSO point out that I am not a mother myself. I am only commenting on this issue because I care about the future of this world and those who live in it.

I also was never beaten by my parents.
I didn't even have strict parents at all. I was raised by a very poor, hard working, single mother & was simply taught to have common sense & respect.
That easy...just TEACH the kids while they are still young enough to learn it. It's not complicated & it does not involve beating your kids (which I disagree with very much)

I think what may really be missing is the value of an education taught outside of the school (in addition to school) and LOVE.

Answer 1

Modern parents. They don't watch their children, they spoil them, they tell them only they are special, and well..it goes to the kid's head. Kids today would rather play virtual soccer by themselves than go outside and actually play soccer with friends. Kids today aren't taught manners, they never learn empathy, or how to "walk in someone Else's shoes." We teach kids "finders keepers" rather than "do the right thing."
We need to tell our kids EVERYONE is special in their own way. WE need to teach them that EVERYONE deserves love.
we shelter our children so much...so they grow up so ignorant.
If we took just a few minutes out of our day to teach our children out volunteering and helping out your fellow Man..the world would be a much better place. Maybe instead of that 3 hours of TV every night, we could learn to share, sing at a nursing home, teach them about tolerance. Maybe instead of watching Hanna Montana and aspiring diva's, we could read with our kids. Maybe we could take 5 minutes to tell our kids that sex doesn't make you "cool" and that there is more to life than drugs and raves. Maybe if we told them to respect their elders, to lend a helping hand, today's kids could grow up to be some pretty cool people. A parent's job is to raise a child to be a healthy, functioning person. A good person. Isn't that worth your time?

Answer 2

As someone who is still very close to this generation of children in years though distant otherwise, I am also very shocked at some of the behaviors that I have seen in the children that I've tutored and others. I was taunted when I was little for being "different." I was the nerdy girl with her nose constantly in books so everyone thought to make fun of me for being the bookworm. And as the sister of a younger, disabled sibling, I am disgusted, positively appalled by the behavior that I see on an almost daily behavior. One girl actually yelled at my brother when she couldn't get a response out of him, and then smacked him hard over the head after a moment or two of waiting. It was all I could do to prevent myself from doing the same to her. And, sad to say, that isn't the first time an incident like that has occurred. Don't parents teach their children any manner of decency these days? They should, at the least, educate them on not taunting people who don't have normal abilities.

Answer 3

What is wrong with kids these days? Simple, their parents! Parents give in to their children for everything, and teach them that they can get what they want through good and bad behavior. How many times have you seen a parent buy a little boy a car just to be quiet? We teach the children at a young age that we are easily embarassed and intimidated by their behavior, and they take advantage of it. Don't give in.

Answer 4

As a mother of three adult children, I have to say that it is the parents fault, I see children swearing and acting way out of line as the parents are sitting there laughing about it, and the are all so calling there children little f*** ing bastards, and the children also talking like that. I have heard that the parents take there kids into stores and have them shoplift, because they are minors and they know that the kids would get into to much trouble. I can't believe how the world is becoming, it's sad....very sad!!

Answer 5

There's a new social "problem" for every single generation and eventually I guess this will become the norm and people will accept it.. Yikes though. Crazy kids are running wild! You know what's wrong with kids? Parents are way too scared to beat their kids around when they do terrible things. My pa was a sergeant in the army so every time I did something bad, I got it bad. But hey! Now as an adult I think I have some great self-control and better manners than a lot of my peers at college whose parents submitted to their every whim

Answer 6

I do not appreciate generalizations of any kind, but seeing as how you're mostly right and you half-apologized at the end, I'll answer illegitimately. I believe kids are so today because their parents are from the generation of the Depression, child abuse, all sorts of things that are illegal now. The 21st century has been producing a lot of sophisticated electronics, which modern kids' parents didn't have. Because the parents of today didn't have highly technological things as children, they can't say, "Oh, I'll do what my mom did to keep me in line with these new developments." They never encountered this as children, so spoil theirs in not knowing what to do. The vice versa applies to discipline. In their day, they got beatings. Now they don't know what to do because child abuse is illegal. All these changes in life style, I'm basically tring to say, confuse parenting ethics as a whole.

Answer 7

Parents

Answer 8

It is parents/adults faults. Parents have no time for there children anymore they leave them to be brought up by child care then by schools and after school care and babysitters on weekends. Then if they are home they stick them in front of the TV or video games.
How do you think this generation of children would turn out?

Answer 9

STEREOTYPING.
1. NOT EVERY CHILD BULLIES THESE DAYS; 7 yr olds hanging them selfs is a WORST case scenario, not many 7 years olds hang them selfs!!

2. Wtf. Im pretty sure that applies to 1 in 80000 11 year olds.

3.I know PLENTY of 11 year olds who have heaps of respect for everything and everyone, once again; stereotyping.

4. Not every bloody child.

5.Once again; I know PLENTY of 11 year olds who have BEAUTIFUL manners, and funny that; Friday morning on my way to work, I saw a 12 or so old schoolgirl give up her seat for a pregnant women and her 2 young kids.

EDIT: Ok, you said it is a huge generalisation, and know I sorta know where your coming from, but even with a generalization , there is still a tiny tiny tiny tiny tiny tiny tiny tiny tiny TINY amount of 11 or so olds who have done drugs or had sex. And have no manners at all. Sorry if I sound ignorant.

Answer 10

I don't know if children at any point have ever been so courteous as to give a seat to an old lady -- at least not without their parents instructing them to. You have nostalgia for an age that never existed.

UPDATE: I was born in 1980, so I know your generation. I was old enough to see it grow up. Althought there are always exceptions to every rule, I've never seen such a well-mannered generation of children, as you describe, in my lifetime. Sure, some people as kids (including myself) had mowed their share of lawns, shoveled driveways, and weeded gardens for free, but in general, I've never seen the "Little House on the Prairie" generation.