Author	Thread: Kids these days...
Admin	Kids these days... Posted : 20 Oct, 2010 10:37 PM Kids today have more than just television. Computers are in homes, even bedrooms, and cell phones are given to children. Teenagers spend their social time text messaging instead of talking face to face, more and more of their lives are based in virtual reality. Social skills are being learned on a much smaller scale, if at all. Monday, while driving home from class, I passed a pair of school kids on their way home from their classes. I was driving very legally, quite slow and giving the children a wide berth, when one of them (I assume for the enjoyment of his peer), saw me, smiled, and turned to yell at me. The only word I could make out was a rather rude one conjecturing my status of a female dog. Earlier this evening, I got in line at a store while a group of teenaged girls stood about ten feet away from the line, with they backs to it, looking at merchandise. Said group later got in line behind me, one shouted, �You cut me!� And the entire group proceeded to harass me and my friend by getting within an inch of the back of my head and staring at me, swearing at me, and even attempting to grab the hood of my friend�s jacket, all the time at us and making fun. The elder in the group, obviously a mother of one of them, merely stood by silently. My question for you is, �What is happening with kids these days?� Post Reply
View Profile History	Kids these days... Posted : 21 Oct, 2010 07:17 PM I have to say I disagree with the last post a little bit... I don't think it is always a case of neglect or low self-esteem. What I see is that children are either over-indulged or beaten into the ground. I didn't hear low self-esteem in the girl yelling at me, I heard a sense of entitlement. Maybe in the little boy, he just wanted attention, so maybe he needed more at home. And no, it is absolutely not my place to counsel teenagers, God did not design me to work with older children, he did not give me that gift. I don't think I am refusing responsibility, but that I am being realistic. What I do is try to be a good example, and be kind to younger children, which I actually enjoy being around for short periods of time. Post Reply
View Profile History	Kids these days... Posted : 22 Oct, 2010 10:09 AM I definitely agree with the majority of what has been said here. Parents today are too passive and too hesitant to spank or take action with their children. Something else I've noticed is that people are just too busy. Parents work long hours, children have so many activities to go to. Don't get me wrong, those can be good things, but do families ever spend any quality time with each other anymore? Do parents take time to teach their children respect, manners, responsibility, and other good character traits? Post Reply
View Profile History	Kids these days... Posted : 29 Oct, 2010 08:42 AM How can we expect to see well behaved kids when you look at society as a whole. A society that is quickly losing the biblical principles. Parents need to be educated! They need to be taught how to be parents... How can they be good parents when you see and look how they were parented. I think that this is also a sphere in which the local church needs to get more involved in as well. Teaching and offering courses on these topics... I know it happens some places, some times but lets make it wider... let us challenge the non Christians around us as well... It is hard to believe that anyone WANTS there children to be like that.... Enough of a tangent Post Reply
Mercymay View Profile History	Kids these days... Posted : 2 Nov, 2010 05:15 PM �What is happening with kids these days?� - those misbehaving kids have no empathy. Not all kids have gone that way cause I am blessed with girls that really empathized with my situation and that of other people. Luckily in my 18 years as single parent I never have experienced being talked back. I believe single parenthood for me works than two parents fighting and disagreeing in front of the kids. Once parents argue in front of kids, they lost their authority over them. Teach them the way they should go and they will not depart from it. A parent should be worthy of honor, freely given and not imposed. It is important they honor for Exodus 20:12 assured God�s lifelong blessing. Spanking works I think once, or I did it only once and really very hard. The hardest part is to control oneself not to give in immediately until the child realized why I did it. If given half hearted I think it will confuse the child. As they grow, my advice is to always choose friends. Also, I am blessed with great neighbors. And the best thing that happen is that just like myself, since childhood they are both hooked on books. Post Reply

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