Teenagers - do you think they're disrespectful nowadays?

I think that this goes in cycles for some reason! I know that when I was a teenager, (graduated in 87') I don't remember hearing alot about these things. Killing,defacing property,assaulting people.Now thats pretty much all you hear about in the news. I was actually at a place called "Jump Zone" one day with a group of children from the daycare I work at during the summer. There was a mother and her 2 daughters there with a couple of their friends. The mom and one of the daughters began to argue, so they went outside and get this, this little girl (maybe 9 or 10 ) slapped her mother across the face! I thought I was going to faint! I still believe that most of it comes from and starts from home! We as parents must be involved with our children in every aspect of their lives.We obviously can run their lives, but we can teach them and help them with the right knowledge.And then just hold on and pray they make the right choices when we let go of them!!! :) I have a 17 yr. old son and 15 yr old daughter and both have expressed the not so loving ill-mannered teenaged mouth. But,thats as far as their behavior has gone. Be there for them, talk to them. I think it has always been there, it just rears its ugly head at different times.

Yes I would say it is a trend these days. They were not like this when I was young. When I was a newly qualified teacher I found I was spending most of my time just disciplining students. When I was a student, detention was something to be scared of. If you got one your parents would be furious. Now days you give a student a detention and they just look at you and laugh and say things like. "Big deal, like as if I would both going to that detention any more than I would go to any other one. As if I care... etc" and they swear. Also when I was young you did not get gangs of young people roaming the streets hitting people or gate crashing parties like you do now and they are rude to adults. I think it is getting worse and I think there is something wrong in society that this is happening. I think the problem is that the only thing society values now is money. If you are not earning money you have no value as a person, things that do not make money no longer have value. When a society loses it values, stops caring about people then how can we expect our young to be any different. I think it will continue to get worse unless our society stops being so greedy and starts to value people again.

Yes I have noticed it a lot but i have also noticed the the older people are the same these days so i think the examples they are getting has been set and they are just doing what they see,....a monkey see monkey do thing...

There are a lot of them, but there are still others who are good mannered and was raised correctly by their parents. Some of the factors are their environment in the home, their influences: friends and computers. Some teenagers nowadays are arrogant, disrespectful, careless, selfish and irresponsible. Hope they change when they grow older.

There are a lot of kids out there that are rude and don't care what they say or do around other people. But the majority are really good kids, they just need to be given the chance and not put in a grouping with every other kid. Most of the kids I have come across will open the door for me and let me go first. They just want someone to care enough to treat them with respect too. With both parents having to wotk to support the family they don't have much time to spend together like they need to. It's very hard on the kids. So they turn to each other for the attention.

I think some are, and some aren't. I have met some very wonderful teens, and then I go home and live next to some that are very disrespectful. It depends on the parents and outside influences. The ones that live next door to me have been left home alone a lot since they were young. Their mother is gone, and their father works long hours. When he interacts with them, he seems to yell a lot. I haven't seen him give them very much positive feedback. I think every generation has had its share of disrespectful teens. It does appear to be getting worse, but it could just be that we don't hear about the good teens very often. The focus is more on the bad ones.

I do think that kids have gotten more disrespectful and I have my own theory on this. I also know that there are good kids out there too. I do think that we also hear more of the bad like in the news and it sticks with you. You dont hear about the everyday respect or help that some teens do for others. All in all I do think things have gotten somewhat worse with teens but there are enough nice ones to even it out in my opinion.

I actually get along well with most teens and find them a lot of fun to be around. I have 4 daughters in ages that are very spaced out and so I've always had teens in my home. I also work in the public and deal with many teens...most of whom are polite and considerate. There will always be those that are not but then again you find adults with the same type of manners. I don't think there are more rude teens than in the past. What I have noticed is that the ones that are rude have become ruder. I'm around a lot of teens on a daily basis and beyond a select few, I really don't have problems with them.

I don't think all teenagers are misbehaved. It depends on how were they disciplined while growing up, in my case I've noticed however that children are usually getting non-traditionalistic. During my times, as a sign of respect, we have to put the hands of the elderly on our forehead but as of now I don't see parents strictly teaching them this method to their kids anymore.

Hey there, I think teenagers will always be rebellious. I'm just 24 and dont have children so I could not care less about what teenagers are doing around me just as long as they don't affect my life. Yes, I see teenagers loitering in the early hours. Some of them are obsessed with games and the internet instead of something productive like art or music. In my place, the teenagers are still respectful unless you disturb them like questioning why they are loitering or wearing gothic clothes. They just don't like to be questioned.

I don't think this can be said of all teenagers. I still am one, and, well, I have been at times disrespectful these past years, but I've been disrespectful of about the same amount all my life, I think. Teenagers are almost always somewhat rebellious, any generation. This generation is probably not so much more bad than the last, though. I think as you get older, teenagers just seem to be more disrespectful because you can not connect with them as much. But they are disrespectful, generally. How they treat each other, especially girls, can get a bit more extreme as they get older, though. They gossip and spread rumors, but little kids pick on each other too, so it's not an isolated event.

youngsters are disrespectful, arrogant, full of themselves, rebellious, etc but who has not been young before? there's always a little bit of rebellious character in us ;)

As a teen myself, I often find that such labeling is very stereotypical. I and my social group do not act like a bunch of morons; we are mature young adults. I do acknowledge there are teenagers who don't hold any regard for anyone else, but that can be true of any age group.

We can't say like that because i know lot of teenagers who are still respecting their elder ones. Now the society practists and cultures are like that so only some people like you are thinking that younger ones are not respecting the elders ones. If we cared for the teenagers then they will care for you.

i think alot of them are & i think it all begins at home. if they are not taught to respect their parents they want respect anyone. parents don't take the time w/ them that they should. it starts when they are small , teaching them how to behave & act. parents don't take the time to do that. they don't teach them manners anymore. i blame the parents. i always felt responsible when my sons didn't act like they were suppose to. when they didn't they were punished for it.

well the age is like that!! at this age they tend to think that they are the only persons who are rite!! and the others are wrong!!!no matter how rite they may be!! this act of theirs leads to the disrespect!! and all nonsense!! and afterwards they would definitely understand that they were wrong at a particular age!!!

A larger percentage of teenagers nowadays are disrespectful... i have seen many teens behave in such way and i just can't help feeling irritated and thwarted... Conversely, i feel that teenagers aren't fully to blame. Parents have a big accountability in making sure that their son/daughter grows up learnng good values...

As a teenager i can honestly say that most of the peolpes are very much disrespectful towards senior and society's norm who are holding the age range between 12 to 18.Agrassion of satelite channel and worst western culture destroying all value and norm of beauty every conservative society.It is hurtful to say this is the present beauty of society where pepoles are love to live alone,they don't fell love and respect towards each other.Human mind working as like a machine.

I do agree with you that teenagers are quite disrespectful these days.I believe that the reason for this is due to parents disinterest over their children.So as a child he won't get his mother s love and father s compassion,eventually as he grew up he will behave pretty oddly.