We're equipping them like adults, but we're not treating them like adults.
Therein lies the problem.
Therein lies the problem.
Who else is disguisted by children nowadays?
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really...another kid bashing thread...how original. these things are really starting to piss me orf, you know what disgusts me these days? self obsessed adults who believe that life was better in "the old days" because heres a tip. it WASNT your looking through rose tinted glasses, the kid wants a second mobile? ok thats snobbish but what would it have been decades ago? OMG that kid has one of those new fangled radios!!!! its annoying when someone in the older generations judges EVERY single child on the actions of a chice few, surprisingly enough i have managed to survive in my city for whole DAYS without being mugged or stabbed by a 7-year-old [/sarcasm]
Humanity is traditionally a selfish species, we just like to think we aren't. Hence why society operates around cycles, because there is no advancement of community and social ideals as a whole because we're always returning to the same stage (ie the start of the next generation) which have the same problems. It's actually rather elegant, like how the stock market cycles between boom and recession despite all our advances in finance.Assassinator said:
I wouldn't be too worried about the children being brats because no matter what they are getting now they will have less tomorrow.
Less oil, less food (honey bees and other pollen eating animals are going extinct and they pollinate most of today's' fruits and legumes and fish stocks are collapsing the world over),less land (ocean levels are rising) & less potable water.
Now they will have more heat so they will have longer and harsher droughts (see Australia for a preview), more powerful storms (see New Orleans after Katrina that was just a category 4 hurricane), more drug resistant bacterial infections (think flesh eating bacteria), if they live in a country that has spent the past century preparing to destroy the other half of the world they will have crippling debt and a failing infrastructure (see America in general), if they live in the third world they were always screwed just more so and for the world in general they ground is poisoned, they air is poisoned, the water is poisoned and the banks just gambled away everything you were promised to get.
Less oil, less food (honey bees and other pollen eating animals are going extinct and they pollinate most of today's' fruits and legumes and fish stocks are collapsing the world over),less land (ocean levels are rising) & less potable water.
Now they will have more heat so they will have longer and harsher droughts (see Australia for a preview), more powerful storms (see New Orleans after Katrina that was just a category 4 hurricane), more drug resistant bacterial infections (think flesh eating bacteria), if they live in a country that has spent the past century preparing to destroy the other half of the world they will have crippling debt and a failing infrastructure (see America in general), if they live in the third world they were always screwed just more so and for the world in general they ground is poisoned, they air is poisoned, the water is poisoned and the banks just gambled away everything you were promised to get.
1. You have NO IDEA how dissapointed i am in todays kids and i'm only 15 ! Even my own sibling is a complete Brat. Parents nowadays are just crap and shit at being parentspdgeorge said:
seriously it's such a obvious thing ! why the hell hasn't anyone done anything !
Kids get what they want and are living the lives off corrupted celebraties.
But this is also a sign of Judgement day
2. I would either Bring my child up right or not have one thats the choice every parent should now make
I'm 16. That probably incites a lot of presumption amongst any number of people. If you're disgusted by my generation, I empathise, as they piss me off just as much.
However my ire isn't restricted to people my age. It extends to the designers, the models and the pop stars who encourage such a thing and are marketed to younger and younger audiences. Parents who use the television as a nanny are just as much to blame as a 13-year-old who goes out knowingly looking like one of the pop-stars they see flaunt on stage.
We need to turn away from the "Tube". To wise up. To accept that people my age are going to emulate people older and supposedly cooler than us. Change the rolemodels.
However my ire isn't restricted to people my age. It extends to the designers, the models and the pop stars who encourage such a thing and are marketed to younger and younger audiences. Parents who use the television as a nanny are just as much to blame as a 13-year-old who goes out knowingly looking like one of the pop-stars they see flaunt on stage.
We need to turn away from the "Tube". To wise up. To accept that people my age are going to emulate people older and supposedly cooler than us. Change the rolemodels.
The children are following the people who are most idolized in the world. Usually that's sluts, gangster rappers and colossal overly rich morons. The next problem is how loose their parents rules are. I have heard children say things to their parents in front of me that I would tremble in fear to say in an isolated room. They're brought up without principals and morals aside from the ones they make themselves.
Hell,my parents denied me a mobile at the age of 11, i shall do that same to my children.
Lousy brats most of them, and getting worried about their weight and all of that melodramatic crap.
They don't care to much about this, that or the other, only about being "pretty" and being more "cool" and adult-like.
Oh did i forget to mention this phone doesn't happen to be in my possession because of add-ons but just so my parents can know where i am, all of my friends have more modern mobile-phones than me, not that it bugs me.
Lousy brats most of them, and getting worried about their weight and all of that melodramatic crap.
They don't care to much about this, that or the other, only about being "pretty" and being more "cool" and adult-like.
Oh did i forget to mention this phone doesn't happen to be in my possession because of add-ons but just so my parents can know where i am, all of my friends have more modern mobile-phones than me, not that it bugs me.
Sometimes, on rare occasions, I can walk through the mall and not want to clothesline the nearest kid. However, the occasions are becoming even rarer; especially in my favorite shops. (Gamestop, Hot Topic, FYE, Barnes & Nobles) I hate the kids who don't appreciate the value of a dollar. I hate the kids who never appreciate any of the sh- their parents do for them. I especially hate the kids who think they run the world and yell at the 20 year old who's back from college for the summer, telling him to "Get your f*ing ass out my way, retard!" What happened to respect and modesty? Hell, I must be an old kook with his "morels" and "decency."
This is the biggest truism in life, IMO. Historical perspective is key to understanding all that is going on around us.Inverse Skies said:
"Kids are horrible nowadays!" During the Great Depression, kids roamed the streets in major cities, living like vagrants...stealing and begging for what they could get.
"Our society is so violent." During the Roman empire, they used to have gladiator battles where sometimes THOUSANDS of people were slaughtered for the live audience in one day.
"Times are so tough today". Again, in the Great Depression, the unemployment line consisted of standing under skyscraper construction zones waiting for someone to slip and fall to their deaths. When that happened, the next person in line became employed.
I'm not saying that the generation below us has problems. They do! I have a baby on the way and knowing that popular shows like Rock of Love Bus and Tila Tequila will have to be explained makes my stomach churn. But then again, we are giving it to them.
Like how they are going to make the 'dora the explorer' look like Paris Hilton to appeal to to the same group of people that grew up with her. There was massive controversy about that in the newspapers a few weeks back.Labyrinth said:
Though i have to also put my own opinion in, that is that not all of them are terrible, just the minority are ruining it for the majority (i desperately hope). My brother and all his friends at the same age group (12-15) think it is cool to trash talk on Xbox live, and is makes me ashamed to play with him.
As a society in general we have surprisingly short memories, hence why people forget these good examples of how every generation faces similar problems just re-iterated slightly differently as times change.SirSisyphus said:
At least you don't live in Poland. Every single school has 3 simple rules:
1. Remember it.
2. Pass it.
3. Forget it.
Except for the foreign languages, we don't learn actually anything useful in our adult years. Thank God I'm interested in going to a Computer Study University so I'll learn something good. Finally.
1. Remember it.
2. Pass it.
3. Forget it.
Except for the foreign languages, we don't learn actually anything useful in our adult years. Thank God I'm interested in going to a Computer Study University so I'll learn something good. Finally.
Us teenagers are put in a bad light because of a select few, most of us won't stab you if you talk to us, those that do get given a stereotype which is chosen by the media to represent us all. I wish people would see what we were like before they made a judgement on us. I open doors for other people and they look stunned that a teenager who at my age (according to the media) should be outside taking drugs and starting fights is being polite to them!
It's peer pressure that is to blame. If a kid has friends who drink they feel that to be part of the group they have to drink as well (pretty sad I know). The same happens with fashion and mobiles. Also if parents protect their kids too much the child would probably feel that they should rebel against them. "The best kind of parent is one who hasn't forgot that they were a child once", that's what I say (I know this sounds sad but as I'm a teenager I have a different perspective). I agree with -bladerunner-.
Is everyone from poland attractive?