Until recently I used to volunteer at my local youth group but the kid's eventually got to me and I quit. It's the general consensus of those remaining as helpers that these children need love but now I'm a firm believer that they just need a good smack. These are the type of kids that hang around the streets all hours and it's plausible that their parents just can't be bothered with them and kick them out which isn't a good expression of love.... but there's also no discipline.
I half-agree with Zerzera, teenagers are teenagers, no matter what the time period.
Sometimes in the church or Christian literature (could even be a verse, I don't know :lol you get a quote about the youth of today, something along the lines of "The youth of today are unruly, undisciplined and don't respect their elders" [Huge paraphrase there] but the catch is that that was written millennia ago. Whatever the age we live in, kids will be kids.
What do you want in your lives: convenience or the threat of an increasing number of teenage shitheads? 9.5 out of 10 would choose convenience, whether they want to admit it or not. 10 out of 10 would agree that Pearl Jam is a bad, bad motherfucker.
Its a mixture of reasons, what zerzera said is complete bull, todays youth is undoubtedly less respectful than those that came before, obviously kids were not all 100% well behaved, but there were certainly less brats around.
Do you even know how many kids there on this planet? Your suburb isn't the universe, sorry.
And how many experience do you have? I mean, how many generations of kids did you watch while they grew up?
Do you remember the sixties, when all the youth was wasting their time on sex, drugs and rock and roll.
Or in the eighties, the time of punk, when kids dressed up in leather and beat up old people...
Read any book out of any era, society about social issues, and the youth will be described as rude and out of control, very unlike how the youth was when the authors were young.
Spoiling is spoiling, no matter what you would give a kid. Just because, to you, it's some of the latest technology it doesn't always mean it has the same effect on a kid.
My father bought us a PC when I was about 5. He bought us an MSX2, a Commodore64, a Nintendo, a VCR.
Perhaps I was privileged, and you didn't get things like that, but I don't really see the difference.
When horses were the new thing, I bet then the elder said to eachother; 'I don't like the youth of today, their parents just spoil them with horses, and they ride around all day. We had to walk! Now those kids are just riding around disrespecting and misbehaving! They are lazy and nothing good will come out of this'
I some cultures teenagers don't have asocial behavior, because they are incouraged to express their sexual behavior and rewarded.
Teenagers are evil cuz they can't get laid and are forbidden by society!
Now everyone knows why Bram is such a biatch :wub:
Do you even know how many kids there on this planet? Your suburb isn't the universe, sorry.
And how many experience do you have? I mean, how many generations of kids did you watch while they grew up?
Do you remember the sixties, when all the youth was wasting their time on sex, drugs and rock and roll.
Or in the eighties, the time of punk, when kids dressed up in leather and beat up old people...
Read any book out of any era, society about social issues, and the youth will be described as rude and out of control, very unlike how the youth was when the authors were young.
Do you remember the sixities? did you witness kids beating up old people in the 80's? how many gerenrations did you witness grow up?
my mother has been a teacher for over 30 years and two of my grandparents were teachers untill they retired, thats through the cane era, from their personal experiances they say that children have grown more and more disrespectful as time has passed, but of course they dont know anything about children compared to you?
I realise the world is a big place, and im not American so i dont live in a 'suburb', rather a city, and from my own personal experiance growing up, children have become far more unruly, and get away with far more than I would have, perhaps I am just lucky and am the only person through the past 70 years who had parents who knew how to dicipline their children?
I obvioulsy do not know all the facts, but if you ask any childcare professional today their opinion, the majority will admit that childrens behaviour has gotten worse, teenage pregnancy has increased, youth crime rates have increased. We live in a time where everything is so politcaly correct that proper discipline is hard, and we live in a time where exams in schools are getting progressively easier in a bid to counter children become progresively dummer, it may be different in the U.S but here in the U.K A-standard GCSE students (exams for 16-17 year olds), couldnt get C's in O-Levels (O-levels are the equivelent of GCSE's in the past, our parents time). There have been several t.v programes on it.
I would not consider the 60's as the sex & drugs era, as most of the sex & drugs label only happened in areas in the late 60's (68-69 unless you lived in certain cities). The term would be better fit for the 70's. Just my thoughts since I did live through that era and yes I am an old fossil on this forum. I can actually say that I saw Hendrix in concert with the Steve Miller Band & the Grateful Dead in 1970.
I have seen many changes in the manner of how children are different. Not all bad and not all good, but that goes for every generation. Frankly I think that it's not so much the children that are at fault as it is the retard parents of many of these kids.
May your shit come to life and kiss you on the face.
Do you remember the sixities? did you witness kids beating up old people in the 80's? how many gerenrations did you witness grow up?
my mother has been a teacher for over 30 years and two of my grandparents were teachers untill they retired, thats through the cane era, from their personal experiances they say that children have grown more and more disrespectful as time has passed, but of course they dont know anything about children compared to you?
Is that an argument? I am just saying that I don't believe you, and you still didn't bring any facts on the table. This is just too silly. My mother's 61, she's been a head of a school. My sister's teaching borderline kids. How is that going to contribute to the discussion?
Is that an argument? I am just saying that I don't believe you, and you still didn't bring any facts on the table. This is just too silly. My mother's 61, she's been a head of a school. My sister's teaching borderline kids. How is that going to contribute to the discussion?
I was giving you the opinion from those who have witnessed several generations of children grow up, if that brings nothing to the discussion then I hardly see how your opinions can matter at all either. Ask your mother her opinion.
Found this note circulating on facebook.
made me giggle. Angst is silly.
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I'm sorry
That I was raised with respect
not to sleep with you when you were drunk
I'm sorry
That my body's not ripped enough
to "satisfy" your wants
I'm sorry
that I open your car door,
and pull out your chair like I was raised
I'm sorry
That I'm not cute enough
to be "your guy"
I'm sorry
That I am actually nice;
not an asshole
I'm sorry
I don't have a huge bank account
to buy you expensive things
I'm sorry
I like to spend quality nights at home
cuddling with you, instead of at a club
I'm sorry
I would rather make love to you then just f**k you
like some random guy.
I'm sorry
That I am always the one you need to talk to,
but never good enough to date
I'm sorry
That I always held your hair back when you threw up,and didn't get mad at you for puking in my car,
but when we went out you went home with another guy
I'm sorry
that your last man treated you like shit
and i am sorry again that you now cannot trust me
I'm sorry
That I am there to pick you up at 4am when your new man hit you and dropped you off in the middle of nowhere,
but not good enough to listen to me when I need a friend
I'm sorry
If I start not being there, and being used as a door mat, only to be thrown to the side when the new asshole comes around
I'm sorry
If I don't answer my phone anymore when you call, to listen to you cry for hours, instead of getting a couple hours of sleep before work
I'm sorry that you can't realize.. I've been the one all along.
I'm sorry
If you read this and know somebody like this
but don't care But most of all
I'm sorry
For not being sorry anymore
I'm sorry
That you can't accept me for who I am
I'm sorry
I can never do anything right, and nothing that I do is good
enough to make it in your world.
I'm sorry
I caught your bf with another girl and told you about it, I thought that was what friends were for...
I'm sorry
That I told you I loved you and actually meant it.
I'm Sorry
That i cared
I'm sorry
that I listen to you at night talk about how you wish you could have done something different.
I'm Sorry
that you assumed I wasn't "bad boy" enough for you because you never took the time to see me cut loose and have fun
I'm sorry
That I was "over-protective"- by not wanting you hanging on other guys,
who you ended up leaving me for him anyways...
im sorry
for making the wrong choice when i was scared of making the right one. cause it seems so easier...
I'm sorry
That I'm a MAN...and not a BOY.
Ladies always bitch and bitch to their friends that there is never any good guys out there, and they always end up with assholes who mistreat them. Well ladies next time you're bitching, maybe look up to see who you're bitching to, maybe that special someone is right there hanging on your every word as usual, screaming in his head "Why won't you give me a chance?"
Because the person you are usually searching for is right by you.
If you're a guy and you agree with this letter, repost as "I'm sorry "and add a little if I forgot something
If You're one of the few girls with enough balls to repost, and you would never make your guy feel this way, repost as "To all the girls who look past the nice guys"
TelCat> i am a slut not a hoe
TelCat> hoes get paid :(
TelCat> i dont
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