Whats wrong with these kids nowadays?

Answer 1

i work as a server in a restaurant/thepub in a wealthy neighborhood. there are a few kids video games but this a restaurant, not chucky cheese or a playground. the parents let tese children run, scream, and yes other customers have left because of it. they have banged the pool sticks against the front windows with the parents right there, have almost knocked the servers over while carrying hot food and dont say a word to them. when i was young my sisters and i got spankings for things like that. we weren't allowed to act like that in public unless at a place for that. these rich people need to bring their nannies with them since they dont seem to know what the hell their doing. parents think everyone is suposed to think that all this behavior is cute. and they dont take charge. instead of telling their 3yo what they can and cant have, they let them order, then tell them no, just tell them their options instead of me standing there for 10 minutes while my other tables are being neglected.

Answer 2

Since, I don't have any myself I'm not too sure how qualified I am to answer this question. However, I do talk with a lot of people both young and old, and I pay attention to what's going on so I do have some insight and have my own opinions on the subject.

First, I wouldn't say all kids are bad. There are some kids, who dispite their home environment, neighborhood and peer pressure to get involved with the wrong crowd or drugs still manage to avoid drugs and turn out pretty good.

Ok, now to answer the question. Those kids you are referring to are no different than the kids from any of the past generations. They are young and and stupid. As they get into their teens they are seeking independance and they also think they are invincable. They don't believe anything that any adults tell them, because they think they know everything.

The big difference is that many of the kids today lack the stability in the home, because either they come from a broken family or both parents work. The other problem is the kids of today haven't been disciplined like we were when I was growing up. The drug problem is a lot worse than it was when I was growing up. We can thank our government for that one by not taking stronger and more severe action when dealing with all those who have to do with production, trafficing, and dealing of the drugs.

Another problem with many of the kids today is they are lazy and/or dumb. I mean, they are good when it comes to playing their computer cames and stuff like that, but they are useless after that. I was at Home Depot today and there was a young man in his yearly 20's, who was helping me and at the register he told the girl that I had four 12 foot boards so that was 56 feet. I told him that 4 x 12 = 48 (I did it without a calculator). He looked at me real puzzled and pulled out a calculator to check it out, then he measured the boards again and told me he was wrong...they were 14 feet long. It's like going to the store and trying to buy something with cash. If anything happens to the cash register during the transaction or if you give a young person some extra money after they have already entered it in they have no idea how to figure out how much to give you back.

Answer 3

Kids these days are brought up mostly by television, the internet and their friends rather than by their parents. Generally, today's economy demands both parents to be working full time in the average American family. By the time these kids' parents get home from a stressed out day at work, the last thing they feel like doing is tackling more work by solving issues of their children's dilemmas. They just want to get some enjoyment out of what little is left of their long hard day. Therefore these kids seek out what's missing from the wrong places and then they go to school the next morning with guns and shoot up the school because they don't know how to deal with the bully who keeps taking their lunch money.

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Answer 4

Whats wrong with these kids???
Whats wrong with some of the more senior members of society who have absolutely no manners?
I had a woman back into my car while I was sitting in it, and all she did was put the car in drive and move forward a bit. Not even a simple sorry. How rude.
Older people who will wrestle you for a txi, even though you've been waiting longer than they have.
Seniors with no manners drive me mad.If they want kids to be nice, polite, productive members of society, they should lead by example.

Answer 5

It's likely more along the lines of ... what's wrong with laws these days? Parents can now have their children taken away from them or face jail time for "spanking" their children is the child thinks it's child abuse.

When I gre up, if a kid said the word child abuse, the parent would show them what child abuse was and the child would never question their parents again. These days, parents' hands are tied on how they can discipline their children. This is why our youth has gone down the crapper.

Answer 6

There are a number of things wrong.
1) Perspective has changed. When my mother was younger the question was raised. When my grandmother was younger the question was raised. At one point in history the question was raised "what is wrong with girls today that they feel they have to show their ankles?" Now girls walk around with shorts so short I almost want to offer them a hairnet! (And keep in mind I'm 20 so they're around my age and I still hold this opinion)

2)Parenting styles have changed. Parents reading this think of one thing that your mother and/or father did when you were growing up that you refused to do to you children....and did you? Some people were forced to say yes ma'am and no sir to everyone and they hated it so they created a generation without sir and ma'am. We've done it to ourselves on that one.

3)Laws have changed. In the 70's when my mother was growing up if you child misbehaved it was perfectly acceptable to pop them up-side their head. Even in the 90's when I was growing up it was ok for my mom to pop me one if I misbehaved. And it was peachy for her to say to me "If you say that one more time I'm going to pop you in the mouth." I would never have dreamed that 10-15 years later I would be hearing "You can't touch me or I'll have you arrested." These kids aren't even old enough to understand the legal system and yet they have their parents by the short curly ones. And again we've brought it upon ourselves. We've arrested and put away those who needed to be there but now we're also putting Suzy Homemaker on trial because her son kicked and punched her and she restrained him by his arm so he wouldn't do it again. We've ended up teaching our children that its ok to act out because the most they'll get is a stern voice and maybe they'll get put in the corner for time out. News flash time out doesn't work after about 6 years old. And so many kids laugh in their parents faces when threatened with loss of privileges. But tell me, in a day and age when a rosy bum is all that is needed to arrest a parent for child abuse, how do you teach children that certain behavior isn't acceptable? When I was young if I did something I shouldn't have I'd get popped on the hand. As I got older I'd get 'talks' (you know the talks I mean the ones where they don't say they're disappointed but you can feel it). In my memory I think my mother spanked me maybe 5 times in the whole of my childhood. If I got spanked it was major punishment for something truly horrid. (I flushed my grandmother's housekey down the toilet once....and I never again flushed anything down the toilet that didn't belong there because I got 5 good pops for that one.)

You ask what is wrong with kids today....for the most part...the same thing that was wrong with you when you were their age. Kids say all the time that 'parents just don't understand' and they really don't even when they understand completely because the generation gap can't be breached. Your question is an age old one that will always be asked and answered and the answer will always be the same. Change is what is wrong with children today. Change in perspective. Change in parenting. Change in laws. Change in life.

Answer 7

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parents on drugs or something and let them roam wild. had no responsibility growing up no values and school wasn't that great either back when they were tots. now we pay for it!
But to be fair there are parents that raised their children best they could, couldn't be home all the time, had to work. Lots of time only one parent and 2 or more kids.
people should think before having them!

Answer 8

NOTHING! There are smart, caring, responsible and wonderful kids out there!

This question has been asked by some cranky adults since there have been kids in this world.

Answer 9

Nowadays?

So you walked on water as a kid?

Answer 10

Parents.