They are selfish, self-centered, egotistical, spoiled, even illiterate! They just dont seem to care if they hurt someone or destroy something.They have no regard for their actions, or regret for how they act or what they do. I'm bewildered. Can someone enlighten me?
2007-06-08 23:37:18 · 32 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Etiquette
Parents, parents and oh yeah, parents.
I don't care what the generation is. The behavior is determined by the way they were raised. Period!
Plus the only way to be successfull now is to be a backstabber.
2007-06-08 23:39:24 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 2⤋
I have given this question alot of thought and consideration, and the answers are all fairly good. It is easy to blame the parents, but that is only part of the problem. Parents today, it seems to me, have stopped being "parents". Now they want to be "friends" and have stopped disciplining the kids to avoid losing that friendship. How uncool is that...disciplining your friends? Next, we have teachers, though not all of them. Some teachers still care. Some of them though are there for the (meager) paycheck and have lost the drive or desire to teach. When kids graduate from high school basically illiterate, we KNOW there are problems. Also, we have teachers who will tell the students that it is against the law for they're parents to discipline them. Which brings me to my next point, the law makers. The legislatures, be it at state or local or national level, have removed, most if not all, of a parents ability to discipline their own child. I am not talking abuse here at all, but in most cases, the law sides with the child. Especially when the schools teach the difference between "bad" touching and "good" touching. A smack on the butt, like I got when I was young, is a "bad" touch. Raising your voice to your child is a form of abuse any more.
And that brings us to the child. In alot of cases I would say peer pressure, so many are getting away with so much that it is hard to keep a child from staying out of trouble. You are trying to be a parent while others are the child's friend...how uncool is that.
People cannot say that the generations are the same. When I was growing up, we did not beat up the homeless, little old ladies, or destroy things just for the hell of it. Our music did not extol the virtues of rape or killing cops, which is alot of what is listened to today.
I have read, too, that people blame television. I am not sure about that, because there is an off button next to the on button.
I have no idea if you are any more "enlightened" but there you have it.
What frightens me more than anything is that they are our future.
2007-06-11 03:44:04 · answer #2 · answered by I see dumb people 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
As it has been pointed out by others, the problem lay in the parenting techniques. It would seem parents are as bewildered as their children when it comes to discipline and consistancy of rules. Therefore they raise self centred, egotistical, un mannered little rodents. Further, parents seem to have less rights over what they can and can not do with their children. If their child moves out cause they can't do what they want, when they want or can't have the latest mobile or their friends are all doing it, parents are helpless. Ridiculous. The whole thing needs addressing before the world blows up from all the big heads knocking together.
2007-06-08 23:51:44 · answer #3 · answered by kelstar 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The religious call it signs of the times when the young go against the elderly, sons/daughters against parents. Then there will be havoc and confusion, men become disrespectful and disobedient, and all the other things you said. And it is clearly what is happening all over the world. The parents could only watch in despair as their children become monsters while the authorities become ineffective. More and more of our young people have become equally sexually permissive, unclear and without ambition. Moral degradation is everywhere and this is a cause for alarm. For parents, for the church and for the authorities. If something can be done, I hope it will come soon.
2007-06-12 17:05:26 · answer #4 · answered by annabelle p 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ok, ill englighten you. You're prejudice. Don't think that we all act like this based on the actions of a few you've met.
Everyone is selfish to some degree. Its human nature.
Maybe the ones you've seen are spoilt because you live in a rich neighborhood and spoil your kids too. Just because they have nice clothes, cars, etc... doesnt make them spoiled. I work for everything I have, and im only 17. I bought my own Honda Prelude, audio system, new exhaust, put in a turbo, i buy nice clothes.
Destroy what? Please make sense.
2007-06-09 13:31:50 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The 50s had the beatniks and the jeans and tee shirt toughs. The 60s had the flower children and the beat generation. The 70s was the protest generation. The 80s were drugs and more drugs. Most grew out of it. Let's hope this bunch does too. ( I was born in 1944, so I saw it all ).
2007-06-12 18:18:16 · answer #6 · answered by curious connie 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well they had parents that said what should I do about my kid being out of control? He won't go to school. I can't MAKE him. My hands are tied. If I spank then the cops will take me away. blah blah blah.....And schools that ***** about being babysitters for these kids, when in fact they are if you think about it since kids are there for aver 6hours a day. But there's no help there because then when they get disciplined at school mom or dad say I think your punishment is stupid and I don't want my kid in detention. Thereby cutting any authority the school has off too, so the kids run wild, and they know they can get away with it. They won't learn until they screw up so bad that the worst of them will be in jail for life or dead because of their own stupidity. What a shock these kids will get when they get out into the real world and they get a kick in the @ss for the first time in their life.
2007-06-12 06:39:31 · answer #7 · answered by Penny K 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I blame cars really... just kidding.... I actually think that it's a combination of things. The lax morals of the culture which surrounds us, a culture which has turned it's back on moral absolutes. You can always go back to the parents, but when a healthy minority of them are growing up in single parent homes, or in shared custody, or worse, never knowing one of their parents, it's hard to shovel the blame on them as well. How about school? Education and encouragement to go out and have sex, and at a high school in boulder, CO even encouragement to go out and experiment with sex, drugs and drinking even while underage. if you allow that type of behavior to keep on going, of course its going to snowball and become a bigger problem as that behavior rubs off on those in succeeding generations. Why should this age group be moral and upcoming when the people that this generation was supposed to be able to look up to, Clinton, various atheletes, even people in ministry positions, have all fallen? The best you can do is continue to encourage your kids, and LIVE YOUR LIFE HOW YOU WANT THEM TO LIVE! don't be a hypocrite, earn their respect and show them that you love them.
2007-06-09 06:13:46 · answer #8 · answered by Silas 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
mThe New Breed. Their parents were too busy to teach many of them basic manners and knowledge. Parenting is a 24/7 commitment and some people can not make that promise or follow through for the years it requires. Children raising children rejecting any help or counsel from their elders. Their children can do no wrong and they live unhappily forever more- all of them.
2007-06-09 06:53:37 · answer #9 · answered by Dawnita R 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I agree with you...its discusting, im young and i think im a good girl i think its because my parents were stricked i dont get drunk party for hours or anything i stay home and study i enjoy the small things like playing UNO! they may call me a nerd or whatever but i have so much fun i love life, i think they are heavily influence by the media and now a days you see kids holding new phones and walking around shopping centers,(too much freedom and t.v internet) i think they have too much parents should be a bit more stricked.....
2007-06-09 00:02:32 · answer #10 · answered by SHalom! 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
when the system took away the parents right to discipline their kids and the kids think that they can do anything and not be responsible for their actions. at our schools there is a program called the Duncan Program and it informs the kids that no one not even the parents have the right to punish or discipline them and if we do they should call the law. so we as parents have stopped, once the kids start to act out the parent has already lose control and just stopped trying . You know that kids at that age tell us that they can take care of themselves and that we don't know anything. been there.
2007-06-08 23:57:16 · answer #11 · answered by revab1960 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋