Is there still hope for our kids in today's world?

I hear you. Technology is a double edged sword so we have to take the bad with the good. Today's kids are fortunate that information can be had in such a short time. Information can be knowledge which they can utilize for their benefit...so to answer your question, there is HOPE for the kids of today. It's up to the parents to do all they can to monitor and even filter what kind of information their kids get. It's tough being a parent. Now it's even tougher because of multimedia.

This is really a matter of concern. What will be the world like after 20-30 years! Will it recover from current condition? Terrorism every where, rising global warming etc., will these all make the world worse? Oh I am totally confused, what will be the world like for our kids when they will grow up. But lets hope for the best! Lets do evry little thing that can make the world better. After all by evry single men and women make the society of the world. So, our very little contribution can bring a hope of light!

Yeah I agree with you that today children's have more pressure on them when it was less a few decades ago and there is so much competition around and I think the rule of the jungle will soon be applied to the human race as well and that is "Survival of the fittest"

i think the world is getting worst and worst. not only in their handling and thinking, also our enviorment. children today have to face so much it is so sad and i get miserable when i even think of it. i believe the media is fault for all of that and parents not looking after their children anymore, that's why they end up watching tv, playing violant video games and doing stupid stuff with their friends. it is no secret that even our language is becoming more and more agressive and people loose their respect for each other and end up abusing, hating and killing one another. it sometimes makes me feel depressed that i have to raise my baby girl in this kind of generation. ciao vicky

As we can accept that no person is the same, then we can understand invidualism. Kids now are far far different from before becoz of the development of the world. Environment always plays an importan part to each and everyone. Kids should be guided by the parents and the elders in the family. It is good to always remind them of the good things to do rather than always telling them or hitting them of their faults and liabilites.

Hope for kids? Yeah there will always be hope. Sure the media is shouting violence, war, hate etc. But if the parents are teaching the kids about love, peacefulness and forgiveness, then there is hope for the kids to grow up properly and be a good generation.

I feel the same. The World has become more and more difficult place to live in. But it was not the same when I was brought up. Now the world is more violent and less peacefull, more hatred and less love and more agression and less tolerance. It's like a war among us all the time. I don't know whether you have heard about Cricket or not because only 10-12 countries play that sport but here it is very popular. It has two versions of the game. One is Test (5 day long) and One dayer (50 overs a side, completed in about 8 hours). Now there is an even shorter version, which is 20-20. I am talking Cricket because life has suddenly become a one day match. Everything is fast moving. Nobody has time to ask and listen to others. Who knows whether or not we will get to see a better world or not? The end result is out children will get a more difficult and unpleasant world to live on.

Sure there is hope. This is where parents need to step up to the plate and be parents. To guide their children at an early age. Don't leave it up to the TV and or schools and the people they may get mixed up with. Start open communications at a very young age. Why should the raising of our kids be left to the father of our countries? When should the parents that were blessed with the children be held responsible?

i think what u said and think is wrong.our parents would have felt the same pressure while brining us up.when i was studing they newly introdued computer courses in the school.my parents were worried how we are going to cope up with this coz they themselves never knew anything about computers.our maths was new to them(my father did M.COm and mom finished high school),our science lesson were very advanced.so even they felt that we were born in bad times.and now we feel the same thing for our children and our children will feel the same thing for their children so development and change is an ongoing process.and their will always be a gap .

hi there... in my case i grew up in the early 80's and it wasnt that pressuring during that time still.. but i think when mid 90's came in, that's the time that i began to feel the pressure already.. people began to expect a lot from today's kids because as they've said they were the hopes of the future... but how unfortunate it is, that not every kids were given the chance to study, and pursue their dreams just because they didnt have that much money.. i guess as a parent we should allow our kids to be kids... i know that sooner or later they're gonna decide with whatever they want with their life, and all that we can do is that support them all the way... thanks a bunch^_^

As a father of three I have to believe there is hope. At times it would seem it is all I have. To look at the world we have made, it's easy to see why. But I'm not so certain that this generation is any worse than the others that preceded it. To listen to my grandma years ago, she was convined that rock music would be the end of the world. i think it's a matter of perspective and faith -- faith that things have a way of working out, faith that if enough people open their eyes and see that it's not too late to change things.

Yes, there is hope for everyone. I think the one way to prevent our children from being exposed to the world today is give them the love and attention they need. THeir background and how they are treated will likely affect their personalities. Let us not loose hope! Specially as a mother, I look at things positively. Let us not allow our children to be victims!

Its hard for kids today. So many aspectations, so many people saying "we didn't do that in my day" or my favourite "I would never dare speak like that an adult when I was a kid" I mean we feared, I was brought up religious Catholic, I was told that I would go to hell for my sins. I feared the cane/stick/whip in school. Fear made me tow the line. Was it out of respect that I never answered back or got into trouble with the law??? no! it was fear, the threat that something terrible would happen if I brought a police officer to my home. I was spanked twice, one was for something I did wrong and the other was for something my Mum thought I had done when I did not. Things like this where rare, spanking was rare, because you knew where you stood, push your parent too far you get spanked. Mum yelled, Mum still yells, and yelling works for me, even now lol! I know its respect and love for her now and terrible guilt at making her yell, but when I was a kid it was fear of consequence, "do this you get that!" Today many children do not have the luxury of knowing where they stand. They go out get drunk, fall into bed, go to school, get drunk again. They told their parents they where staying at a friends, when really they where out in a park getting up to goodness knows what. Parents trust their children, sorry some parents are guillable. So I think today, not just magazines, and television but PEER pressure is the one thing we just cannot protect our children from. I saw my nieces make mistakes and I could do nothing about it at all, sometimes they have to pave their own way and make their own messes. As parents and Aunts we have to be ready to pick up the pieces, put them back together and let them go on their path again.

I believe as time changes so does everything else and this included what our children know and what they hear , but I think like every generation before they learn to adapt and make their own decisions about what is right and wrong and it is the values we teach our children is what determines how they will be when they are older . I believe there is still hope for the children of today .

I think yes the times are difficult but humans have a very good property that they can adjust to things easily and therefore I believe the newcomers will also do the same.

Well though they get to become involved in all the talks we make I think they can make themselves clear of what to do and what not to do.We the parents must guide them so that htey become good citizens of the nation rather than turning themselves for the evils which they hear in the radio or watch in the Tv.

There is more pressure for todays kids. It's going to be difficult, but parents should try Their best to help their children.Todays children have no freedom to enjoy their childhood. Everyone has become Machine, Not HumanBeing They want their child to become supermachines in their early age. The Main problem is that people think that More Knowledge will make their life better. If it is going to continue in this way "Knowledge is Power " will evolve as "Knowledge is Devil" There is no enough wisdom, Only Wisdom Can Save the children. Only Spirituality Can save the children.

As you say, we have always had problems. As times change, the nature of the problems change, and so does the idea of childhood. I hope a child derives its childish pleasure from things, no matter what situation s/he is in. I agree that there is not much hope for us in this world, but that applies to all, not just children.

There is your point of view, and then theres another point. As kids, you were raised with less stress than todays children. Children now adays can cope a lot easier with stress than children of your generation, because they are actually raised with the stress. Kids now have to deal with more stress, but at the same time are more flexable.

In giving a bright future we are making the present of the children full of commitments and pressures.............no one(leaders)is thinking about the effect of the present incedents on their minds which will certainly effet their lives..........