Are kids getting dumber and dumber?

i think it is important to have them read but i think it is even more important to teach them to think critically and logically about things. to question everything and then workout the answers in their heads. if a child ask you a question, give them back a question and ask them why they think it would be possible, tell them to develop alternative answers and then work them out logically. imagine how better your child will be to face the world challenges and college and then business. too many children just accept what they are told to be truth. kind of like the god thing. peace look at how many just believed bush when he make his lies about going to war, when he sent his people to speak and give the support for war in the media...attempting to snow the world and the american people. those that do not think critically, will believe it and did. now, we have a mess and i feel so sorry for all those families that have losts sons and daughters, father and mothers in a war, in katrina, lost homes and jobs and now are paying record prices for gas. Because NO ONE in power would stand up and question, expose and make an example. we don't teach out kids to stand up and question. we teach them to just accept what they are told and follow. of course, we are going to produce a nation of ignorant children. however, if you speak with kids today, they are more intelligent, they just don't know the basics that were taught years before. peace

These particluar kids were actually making a go of it and continuing their education. One girl was an A student, a classically trained pianist and came from a christian family. The story was about how not all teenage parents are welfare bludgers. Although some of them weren't the brightest crayons in the box they were still doing their best to live a decent life. They just happened to use this new language.

i stand by my original comment. if technology has brought anything, it is an easier more convenient way to learn and study, but as with all things.. you get out of something what you wish to get.

Good reply, Tessah! You are right, there are those that are not sucked into ignorance!

I'm sorry but as a former teen parent, that's a moronic statement. Many of us became parents not because we weren't bright enough to use birth control or to use it correctly, but rather because all birth control has inherent failure rates. A teen's body is (usually) in optimum health & prime fertility. If bc fails, a young woman is far more apt to conceive than her older counterpart.

eden32 I agree with you! This is why it's so hard to be a teen parent as so many people THINK that just because we're young we are crappy parents. I saw this one mom in a store one time maybe late 30's with a toddler about as old as my oldest (4) and she was grabbing her by the arm screaming at her telling her to shut up because too many people were starring! I'm sorry but when my children throw fits in the store I just laugh or ignore it. I have gotten compliments from people saying how great I am with my children! NOT all teens are bad parents. and NOT all OLDER parents are any better by any means. Birth control really does have a low percentage it doesnt always work.

Many kids can't help it. What do we expect when we raise them to believe in burning bushes that talk and that this bush is god and that he is your father that will torture you if you do not do what he tells you but you can never see this father or hear him until the day you are either tortured or get great fantastic rewards in heaven and get to live for ever with all your other lucky friends and family. These kids are expected to believe such things, are threatened to believe it, and don't use one lick of critical thinking in the process. of course many of them are going to be less intelligent and unable to think for themselves. however, i can look at it in another way and say, at least my child will be independent and be raised to think critically, and question everyone, even those that claim to speak for the burning bush. i watched a video on youtube with a teenage telling his mother he didn't believe in god....WOW...she became so angry, yelled at him and then told him if he didn't believe in god then he wouldn't get any christmas gifts because the holiday was for jesus....wow. it happens more often than one would think. i have seen it in friends i had growing up...if they were to tell their parents they didn't believe, it was almost better that they were tortured by fire...really sick behavior by adults.

What a great idea! I think all parents should do this! It really is annoying and I've heard some young people on buses abuse that word so much while talking to each other-so much it becomes annoying and really irritating.

I'm aware it's not teenage parents who talk like this-that wasn't the focus of my discussion. I was just saying how this particluar story I was watching made me think about how young peole talk. That story happened to be about teenage parents

lol Western Europe? the UK has the worst education system, but yea i supose the rest of Europe has good education

Yeah, we ALL should have been forced to do that.