What's Wrong with Kids Today?
By lorelei1622
@lorelei1622 (329)
United States
October 13, 2008 11:28pm CST
I think the biggest thing wrong with kids today is the way they've been brought up. Progressive parenting has ruined an entire generation! Kids today don't understand consequences to their actions, therefore they don't understand why they can't do things. If a child goes unpunished how do they learn not to do things? I'm not saying they should be abused or beaten, but there should be punishments, even if it's grounding them or taking away something for a period of time. If my daughter does something wrong, I take her cell phone away or ground her for a week, generally she doesn't do the same thing wrong again. When they were younger (9-11ish) and were told to clean their rooms, if they didn't within the given time frame, I did with a trash bag and anything not where it belonged went in the bag and the bag went out to the shed for a month. Now both my kids either keep their rooms picked up on their own or if it gets messy and I say to clean it by the end of the week, it is. I see kids throwing tantrums in the store I work in all the time and parents giving in! BIG MISTAKE!!!! TELL THEM NO AND WALK OUT! What do you think? Should we keep raising a generation of selfish, spoiled, whiny brats who run their parents lives? Why don't we practice good parenting? Why not go back to real parenting? You have to admit there is a lot more juvenile crime now than in previous generations isn't there?
3 responses
@coolseeds (3919)
• United States
14 Oct 08
Parents are responsible. No one else is to blame. A lot of parents raised their children with the vcr. And more are doing it with a dvd player and video games. When I see a kid acting like that in public sometimes I feel like slapping the parent. One day that unruly child will be released into the world in which we live. One day that child's behavior might get them hurt.
@momjessie82 (344)
• United States
14 Oct 08
I think society and the government has a lot to do with the way kids are being raised these days. It is no longer ok to discipline children. People lose their children for spanking them or so called mistreating them. When I was younger and didn't want to clean my room, I ended up with nothing but my bed in my room. My parents were not afraid to spank us when we had done wrong. Social Services has decided that they should be telling us how to raise our kids. They are saying what is ok and what is wrong. They are deciding how our children should be raised. If we do not do it their way, we run the risk of losing our children. However, if we do it their way, we are not teaching our children anything and society will continue to have more and more juvenile problems such as the crimes, defiance, fighting, and even the murders. This is not necessarily due to bad parents but, due to what society has decided is right.
@bdugas (3577)
• United States
14 Oct 08
i can tell you, the government has stepped into it and now you are not allowed to say anything or put your hands on them. Like you said not abused, but when I Was a child I got my behind smacked and my children got theirs after they was told no for the 3rd time. When we stopped correcting our kids because they scream abuse, then here comes the cops and they win. What is that showing them. I agree with taking someting away from them, but when my daughter takes the computer away from my grand daughter she just goes next door and uses theirs. Those kids in the stores, they are so out of control, and I feel for their parents that has let them become what you see in the store. Do you see those kids on shows like Morey Popich, cussing their parents, my parents would of knocked my teeth out. Some parents dont' care where their kids are, as long as they gone. I think here they have started jailing the parents if they aren't in school. Something has to be done, all this is why there is so much crime in the street, when we took the power to correct our children we lost all control.
