What is wrong with these kids today?

Question

Kids haveing kids, swareing, hitting, shooting, WHAT THE @#$$ IS GOING ON!?. Can someone answer this for me?

Answer 1

Take God out of society, family and school and thats what you get.

Answer 2

You can't blame TV, Schools, Video Games, or society. As a parent, I am solely responsible for the proper upbringing of my children. If they see something bad on TV, then as their mother I must omit such viewing, or use the situation as a starter to a life lesson. Bad stuff and bad influences have been around since the begining of time, super lazy parents are what is new to the game. My children are expected to speak properly, show good manners, be courteous to others, respect authority and help others in need. These lessons started from before they even knew what a lesson was, bad behavior is nipped as soon as it rears its ugly head. My kids aren't perfect, but they do understand what behavior is expected, and what happens when they choose otherwise. So i guess my short answer is - Lazy Parents... That's what happened to the world today.

Answer 3

Lack of parenting, lack of discipline in school and at home, lack of values, lack of morals and lack of boundaries and lack of police powers.
Can't blame the kids though.

Parents NEED all the fine things so they get the best house, the best car.... then when kids come along, they are shoved aside because they need to both work all day everyday to pay for it. They smother kids with "things" because they feel guilty for not being there so kids get used to having everything they want handed on a platter. They dont know how to be in society and dont learn from society, they learn from the violent video games that keep them entertained for hours on end. They don't know how good it feels to give and do good for others becuase all they know is getting. I could go on for hours on this subject.... but i'm with you and i wonder how much worse it's going to get.

Answer 4

That's only a small amount of kids today. Most kids are excelling in school, on the sporting field or in an artistic way. Most kids don't use bad language, or violence. I am so sick of teenagers being stereotyped! What about the adults of this world? Murdering? Raping? Sexually abusing? Is that alright because you are older or something?

Answer 5

Yes, I can certainly try.

Kids having kids-
Media has made sex so mainstream that going to 3rd base for me (37) is like them going to first base. No matter what these kids are taught about birth control they are teenagers and one of the main sicknesses that teenagers have is the "it won't happen to me complex".

Swearing, shooting everything else- two theories. One, some women wait so long to finally settle down and have children that they and their partners are so thrilled to finally have a baby that those babies are spoiled rotten. I have seen 2 and 3 yr olds punch and kick their parents and all they get for it is oh we don't hit. These kids are not taught to respect so they don't respect anyone, even themselves. Two, some of these kids are raised by people who don't understand that to be an adult you have to live your life with personal responsibility and if the parents don't get it how can they. Some parents rather go out every weekend than pay the bills, they swear and insult and accuse their spouse rather than having a rational conversation over a disagreement. They just haven't figured out how to think before they act and those children don't have a chance to do much better.

I have a 16 yr old and a 3 yr old. They are taught to respect all life, never call names and be responsible for your self and those you care for. My son and daughter have never witnessed a fight between me and my husband, they have heard us say many times that we need to discuss this later and we do. Like adults, no screaming, insulting or swearing. We teach our children to be respectful residents of our home and our world, we do what a parent should.

I am strict but we still have fun, my 3 yr old painted my kitchen floor and fridge with finger paint today while wearing nothing but underwear. He helped clean it up too.

My 16 yr old is having 3 friends over for pizza and scary movies Friday night, they will clean up after themselves and I don't have to deal with any of her friends for the remainder of the weekend.

Life can be great if we would just all live with a little personal responsibility and having or not having money has nothing to do with respect or class.

Answer 6

Kids are like that because their parents aren't doing their job among other things. They're also spoiled, feel as if they're "entitled" to anything they want, and don't know the merits of hard work. Kids that are poor have to grow up fast and take on responsibilities that their parents can't (or won't) do for them, have more worries than adults (will the lights be on when I get home from school? Will I have something to eat?), live in crime-infested neighborhoods with BS "stop snitching" madness, and go to schools that are underfunded with old books. Kids that have money are basically given anything they want, have the privilege of money when it comes to getting out of tight spots, which often makes them feel like they can do anything and get away with it. Parents play a huge part in their kids lives, but that doesn't excuse the kid from doing their part too.

Tips to parents: Monitor what your children have access to YOURSELF and don't rely on TV, Radio, Musicians, etc. to censor their work. YOU determine what you allow in your house. Do your job.

Tips to kids: Just because your friends are doing it, doesn't mean you should be doing it as well. Don't let nonsense influence your life.

Answer 7

Oh another post about teenage motherhood. THese days? One hundred years ago nobody saw anythign wrong with it actually, and the kids grew up just fine.
Swearing, hitting, shooting -- well then, blame broken families, blame the media for glamourising promiscuous sex, drugs, and violence. Plus, promotion of money over morals, complete materialism without regard to anythign else.
Just one point here: it's not KIDS having kids here, it's adolescents. And I, for one, and the few of my friends who had children young, have nothing wrong with us or our precious families.

Answer 8

It's a lot of things, parents not doing their job. To name off a few thing's, parent's aren't paying attention to their kids, there isn't a positive role model, parents afraid to beat their kids and mainly the government.

Answer 9

Lack of discipline. Guaranteed if parents got back to the days when disobediant kids got the whoopin they so desperately needed, they wouldnt be shooting up the schools.

Answer 10

#1 Not having God in Public. The children of today think because you bring them into this world you owe them.Like instead of Love, food, water, and shelter. You are to buy them the name brands,be the taxi,be the maid, do your chores and theirs because they have to be social.The best place to be social is home,church, school.They have completely taken discipline out of schools if your child gets into trouble they send them home mostly unsupervised,because the parent can not get off work to stay at home with the child. I say call me and I will take care of this but I can not discipline my own child on campus or they have to call the law or DCF. We just have to pray and hope things will change.

Answer 11

i think a lot of it is a cry for attention. parents have to spend more time away from home working to provide material things, and as a result the family has less quality time together than it used to.
in cases where the child feels ignored, negative behavior merits more attention, even though the attention is negative, than positive behavior does.