What is wrong with you child!

[Zynx_Keekeio]

Being fairly young, and with plenty of clear memories as a child going to school, I have to say that kids today are just plain demonic. I used to work at a smoothie bar and it made me cringe to see the way parents cator to their child's every whim or simply ignore them altogether, especially when they're doing something bad. If I even so much as opened mouth to deliver a biting, sarcastic comment I received a quick, painless slap on the mouth (enough to startle me) and some time out. If I persisted (which I did a lot of the times because I was just that stubborn) I got the Wooden Spoon of Doom(tm) and a grounding.

I just don't get it. Don't these parents care about what kind of people they are raising?

I believe it was Socrates who said that entitlement is the last step before collapse of civilization. And teaching children that they can call on authority for their parents attempting to discipline them is teaching them just that.

The children of this society have become so bad that I think that when I have a child I will homeschool them. But then I worry that I'll be protecting them too much; they have to know how the world really is even if it's a mean, unfair, and violent place.

I consider myself a very sympathetic person, but I find it difficult to sympathize with someone who is not. Which is why I just can't fathom the way kids do things these days. How can you say such things, or hell, even CALL the police on your MOM - who gave life to you, fed you, dressed you, put a roof over your head etc. and not feel bad about it. I'm not sure how kids feel about it, but I know that when I was little and I got disciplined I felt worse knowing that I had hurt my mom's feelings or made her upset. Then again I've always been close to my mom. :>

Don't HOmeschooL! I'm homeschooled and I HATE IT, well it is better than public, but I have no friends, the work load is overwhelming, colleges don't really take you seriously. It's extremely lonely even if you have a co-op class, that just makes it worse because they pile on so much work for the week in 1 hr that you have no time to do anything else (that is why I am almost failing algebra, I'm ignoring it till my teeth fall out, I know not smart but I don't give a darn)

Kids these days ARE so self centered, everytime i talk to someone i have to think and be careful, am I going to offend them by "topping" their stories or whatever, I'm always afraid to talk because they always come back with something, rude, demeaning, laughing at you. Just something so I've learned to keep to myself more times than not. Except for online

Then also teenagers ARE so SO vain and create these cliques and unless you conform to those standards your a loser worth laughing at. I hardly have anyone I can talk to about my reptiles because when I do they think I have a problem or something, and I have like one of the least amount HERE! And if your strange or like things out of the norm, like I think it's fun to Cos-play...dress up like characters from video games, mangas, animes, movies, etc. but if anyone I knew were to find out. I'd be the laughing stalk!!

Why can't we just accept people differences and quite worrying so much about all that other junk. It's a vicious cycle.... and I think it's a silent kilelr sometimes... I've never cut or anything but I know people who do and try to kill themselves, because why? society didn't accept them or their parents didn't or some doctor along the way screwed them up with meds.... uggh


Sorry I know that kicks up way more dirt than necessary.

 

[lizardlove]

I know what you're saying, Haley. School was hell for me, and it took me forever to figure out how to get along without being made fun of. Girls were SO cruel to me for the longest time, because I'd rather read than sit and talk about makeup and how everyone was changing their name to Nikki. I cried and fed into their cruelty and it just made it worse. Eventually I grew a brain and started laughing at them when they were mean to me, giving them the same looks that they gave me - looks that implied that they were pathetic and worthless for finding entertainment in belittling others. They started with me again a few times, but it wasn't at all like it was. Toward the end of high school I had to just not really care about other people, keep to myself, and do my own thing. Too many teenagers these days are disgusting, rude, and arrogant and I really wish they couldn't breed... Part of me wants to homeschool future children but I don't know if I'd have time for that plus my career, and I'm not sure that it would be healthy for them in the long run. Honestly, I don't have high hopes for the future... it's sort of a scary thought.

And completely off-topic, my gecko is sitting on my keyboard and her front right foot is on the Backspace bar. Every time I press it she does this hilarious dip thing and pops back up. It's sort of awesome. She's completely ignoring the phenomena, I think she's too busy watching Animal Planet.

 

[Zynx_Keekeio]

I know what you're saying, Haley. School was hell for me, and it took me forever to figure out how to get along without being made fun of. Girls were SO cruel to me for the longest time, because I'd rather read than sit and talk about makeup and how everyone was changing their name to Nikki. I cried and fed into their cruelty and it just made it worse. Eventually I grew a brain and started laughing at them when they were mean to me, giving them the same looks that they gave me - looks that implied that they were pathetic and worthless for finding entertainment in belittling others. They started with me again a few times, but it wasn't at all like it was. Toward the end of high school I had to just not really care about other people, keep to myself, and do my own thing. Too many teenagers these days are disgusting, rude, and arrogant and I really wish they couldn't breed... Part of me wants to homeschool future children but I don't know if I'd have time for that plus my career, and I'm not sure that it would be healthy for them in the long run. Honestly, I don't have high hopes for the future... it's sort of a scary thought.

And completely off-topic, my gecko is sitting on my keyboard and her front right foot is on the Backspace bar. Every time I press it she does this hilarious dip thing and pops back up. It's sort of awesome. She's completely ignoring the phenomena, I think she's too busy watching Animal Planet.

HA HA HA your gecko XD

 

[LizMarie]

"the way I would want to be treated"

I just saw this and I havn't heard it in a LONG time from someone besides myself. Parents new motto is "if they hit you, you hit them back." Lol.. Ugh this topic now saddens me. . makes me think twice on whether or not I want to bring children into this world.

 

[vctkiller]

Here is my prospective about it. I'm 13 years old, and in 7th grade right now. You can call me a kid who does work first then friends. Though my middle school, Voorhees Middle School, isn't that bad. There are fights, but thats only every 2 marking periods? If you would like to call clique's, I'm really not in one. I just get along with other people. I do have friends who are a bit violent at times, but I'm never there when it happens. When I was young I use to get a spanking only in the butt. Yeah it hurts, but now my parents don't do it anymore because lets say I can use common sense? Though I'm only counting Voorhees, because that is where I live. I use to live in Philadelphia where it was actually violent. Kids fighting in the playgrounds, and even the bathrooms. Though that is a bit of my prospective on where I live only.

 

[lizardlove]

Hehe, Voorhees. That's like 20 minutes away from me. Poor thing... South Jersey isn't exactly spectacular.

 

[vctkiller]

Hehe, Voorhees. That's like 20 minutes away from me. Poor thing... South Jersey isn't exactly spectacular.

Well if you haven't heard the kid with manigitis, the school is only 10 mins aways from me.