What is wrong with kids nowadays!

[JL8Jeff]

What was that kid in PA thinking he was going to accomplish by shooting his "girlfriend's" parents and taking her? Heck, he was gonna shoot her younger sister too but she ran and hid! Is it tv, video games, the news? This is just ridiculous! And he's 18 and dating a 14 year old???

[ar0ck]

Actually I was driving through PA flipping through their crappy stations, when they put out the Amber Alert in the area that I was in. They explained the whole story. Its pretty ****ed up. I was on the look out for the car the entire trip though too!

[Savage_Messiah]

what a damn moron

[NJSPEEDER]

it is parenting and leadeship. face it, most kids today grow up watching tv and idolizing sports stars. if parents woudl be invovled, if teachers were allowed to get clsoe enough to act like they care(many teachers i know live in fear of getting too close and having a parent complain/sue and cost them the job they love), or if kids were encouraged to get together in community groups instead of on community street corners we could avoid 99% of this ****.
it isn't video games or tv or anything liek that. when i was a kid they were still allowed to show wiley coyote hitting the canyon floor and having teh boulder land on him, it never inspired me or my friends to try it, so i have a hard time believing that it is the cause of kids problems today.[/rant]

[12secondv6]

<--- agrees w/ tim 100%

[Tsar]

they're all emo

[slasherbarb]

if that was my kid he'd get a shift kick in the ass every time he acted up...parents are too afraid to discipline kids today

[Tsar]

if that was my kid he'd get a shift kick in the ass every time he acted up...parents are too afraid to discipline kids today
their kids can prolly sue them :lol:

[V]

i dunno about kids today, but i was raised right, i never caused big problems or had temper tantrums, i was polite and respected others. Its all how parents treat the kids i believe, if you hit a kid alot, yeah its "teaching" them what they did was wrong but makes them grow up thinking pain/huirting is ok sometimes. If i remember correctly, i was maybe spanked once or twice, but never hit with a belt or stuff like that. And see, i didnt turn out as a criminal(not counting the JV weapons poss.) lol. mainly i think its beacuse parent sjust dont spend enough time with their kids, its all about both parents having jobs, latchkey kids, and afterschool activitives, almost like people have kids without realizing they need to devote time to them....i dunno..this world is going to hell.

[qwikz28]

i think its the american lifestyle of working a million hours a week and never having time for your kids. i seem to notice the troublesome/depressed kids mostly come from busy parents.

[JL8Jeff]

I agree that most of the time the parents have no clue what's going on because they're too absorbed in their own work. But I still wonder if the level of violence on tv, the news, the movies, the internet has gotten to the point that kids think it's no big deal to pull out a gun and shoot somebody. It's like they're becoming numb to what's wrong and right.

[Tsar]

i think its the american lifestyle of working a million hours a week and never having time for your kids. i seem to notice the troublesome/depressed kids mostly come from busy parents.
I cant accept that as an excuse. I was born when my mom was 18 years old. Sure it was prolly tough to raise me, since she had a job went to school, and looked after me because my grandmother didnt want to help out at all. **** she didnt even want me to be born. But i've turned out somewhat decent, besides being an ******* on occasion, i dont go and shoot people just because they did something bad to me. I can tell you lots of bad childhood stories but none of them have made me into a phycho or a killer.

[Tsar]

I agree that most of the time the parents have no clue what's going on because they're too absorbed in their own work. But I still wonder if the level of violence on tv, the news, the movies, the internet has gotten to the point that kids think it's no big deal to pull out a gun and shoot somebody. It's like they're becoming numb to what's wrong and right.
You cant blame everything on the parents. Kids gotta realize right from wrong no matter what. If you have anywhere close to having an average IQ you gotta know that pulling a gun on a person will land in some serious ****.

[NJSPEEDER]

face it, we live in a society that scape goats all of it's problems onto outside sources. kid doesnt' know how to act in public, parents blame a tv show. but tell me, where were they while the kid was watching the show? did they sit down and say that the shwo wasnt' depicting teh right way to act? did they disallow their child from watching it? no, they instead sue teh cable company for a million bucks cause beavis and butthead talked about fire and an unattended 5year old, who had started several fires before, burns the trailer down.

[qwikz28]

I cant accept that as an excuse. I was born when my mom was 18 years old. Sure it was prolly tough to raise me, since she had a job went to school, and looked after me because my grandmother didnt want to help out at all. **** she didnt even want me to be born. But i've turned out somewhat decent, besides being an ******* on occasion, i dont go and shoot people just because they did something bad to me. I can tell you lots of bad childhood stories but none of them have made me into a phycho or a killer.
theres an exception to every rule. my father worked ridiculous hours and still does. that doesnt mean i dont know how to be a man.


kids these days need Jesus.

[bitchincamaro]

no respect i tell ya, no respect

[IROCZBeast]

I see it everyday. The problem is no respect, that is the major problem. If these kids don't respect their own parents how can you expect them to respect anyone else in society. A little fear in all of us is good. Growing up most of us realized there were severe consiquences for our actions if we messed up or did somethign wrong. Nowadays it seems like there is a way out of everything for everyone. They don't think about the future or what could happen next.

All I can say is there are going to be a lot of McDonald workers in the future.

Common sense is also a big problem nowadays. For example someone sueing McDonalds for spilling her coffee on her and burning herself. She calmed there should be a warning label on it. People sueing fast food joints cause them claim it made them fat. Last I checked no one puts gun to your head to eat there. Lets face it common sense is dead.

R.I.P. Common Sense

[Tsar]

I see it everyday. The problem is no respect, that is the major problem. If these kids don't respect their own parents how can you expect them to respect anyone else in society. A little fear in all of us is good. Growing up most of us realized there were severe consiquences for our actions if we messed up or did somethign wrong. Nowadays it seems like there is a way out of everything for everyone. They don't think about the future or what could happen next.

All I can say is there are going to be a lot of McDonald workers in the future.

Common sense is also a big problem nowadays. For example someone sueing McDonalds for spilling her coffee on her and burning herself. She calmed there should be a warning label on it. People sueing fast food joints cause them claim it made them fat. Last I checked no one puts gun to your head to eat there. Lets face it common sense is dead.

R.I.P. Common SenseWe can always use more burger flippers! i like my service fast!

[Savage_Messiah]

I'm with tim, james, and paul

[Ian]

No respect is a big reason for the crap that goes on. another reason is the kids these days dont feel guilt. I know when I was younger and my mom was mad at me, I felt so guilty that it would nearly drive me to tears. the last thing I wanted to do was get my parents upset. Why? because that feeling of guilt was awful! that combined with the respect I had for them kept me in line even when they weren't around.

Peer pressure was another thing I didnt have any trouble with, again, because i didnt want to piss my parents off.

I also think that the youth of today, for some reason, feels that life should be fair. Life is not fair, it never was fair and it never will be fair...ADJUST! No one leads a story book life with a fairy tale ending, thats why they're called fairy tales. Fairys dont exist and neither do those kinds of lives. But kids still seem to think that they deserve better. Guess what junior? you dont deserve better because you arent doing anything positive to warrant that kind of life. Even the people that do break their backs working and giving their all to make things comfortable for their family dont get the respect they deserve. god damn kids! they want everything ten minutes ago and when they dont get it, they think everyone is trying to bring them down. I'm just glad I'm not a violent guy, otherwise I probably would have gotten into a lot of fights in high school. :lol:

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[Tsar]

No respect is a big reason for the crap that goes on. another reason is the kids these days dont feel guilt. I know when I was younger and my mom was mad at me, I felt so guilty that it would nearly drive me to tears. the last thing I wanted to do was get my parents upset. Why? because that feeling of guilt was awful! that combined with the respect I had for them kept me in line even when they weren't around.

Peer pressure was another thing I didnt have any trouble with, again, because i didnt want to piss my parents off.

I also think that the youth of today, for some reason, feels that life should be fair. Life is not fair, it never was fair and it never will be fair...ADJUST! No one leads a story book life with a fairy tale ending, thats why they're called fairy tales. Fairys dont exist and neither do those kinds of lives. But kids still seem to think that they deserve better. Guess what junior? you dont deserve better because you arent doing anything positive to warrant that kind of life. Even the people that do break their backs working and giving their all to make things comfortable for their family dont get the respect they deserve. god damn kids! they want everything ten minutes ago and when they dont get it, they think everyone is trying to bring them down. I'm just glad I'm not a violent guy, otherwise I probably would have gotten into a lot of fights in high school. :lol:

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what got your panties in a wad? :lol:

[Ian]

what got your panties in a wad? :lol:

I hate kids:D

[PBodyGT87]

they caught the kid, and the girl is now safe.

[Tsar]

I hate kids:D
good answer :lol:

[Savage_Messiah]

Fairys dont exist

Yes they do! Alex is living proof! :lol:

But I agree with you over the whole "fairness" issue, same thing Tim was talking about with teachers.

People need to WAKE THE **** UP and realize that life won't cater to them. Sometimes I wish stupidity and conceitedness were punishable by death :mad:

[NJSPEEDER]

it is hard to tell society to wake up when lawyers and politicians hand out excuses like wet naps at an all you can eat BBQ.
goverment is more involved in the lives of children today than any previous generation. look at all the censorship and how hypocritical it is. show gunshto victims laying in a pool of blood on the news and then tell me that a cigarette commercial will lead me to a life of cancer and evil. how does that add up?
look at our schools, teachers can back me up on this one. school curriculums are set by school board politicians, not the teachers who know what is available and the ability levels of their own students. what sense does that make when my friend from work gets all good marks on her report card and then gets to take "geusstimating" in math class? i understand that there is possibly a kid or two in the class that needs that type of support structure, but to teach an entire grade level of children to try to geuss close for an answer when the problem is simple addition is insane. [pause rant]
sorry taht i go off about this stuff. but as a youth group leader and having friends in education i have trouble comprehending why and when "close enough" became good enough for american society. we used to set teh standard for technology and development for the whole world. we are slipping to the poitn where we hardly hold that torch for north america.(damn canadians :finger:)

[Savage_Messiah]

"more than those freeloadin' Canadians ever gave us...


CANADA SUCKS!"

[The Fixer]

I love to read what the younguns on this board (Kasey, Ian, etc.) have to say about this. You guys have been raised by good parents that actually CARED about their kids! I wish there were more parents in the world like mine and yours! That way, the kids of today (like those high school brats that I teach everyday!) would actually learn that they are responsible for their own actions, and deserve every punishment for the bad things they do and every compliment for the good things they do!

I've been a high-school teacher for 8 years now. There are a few students that actually still keep in touch with me, even after all those years. Why? Cause I gave a damn about them when they were my students.

I wish I could do more for some of them, but like Tim says, some over-bearing parent would probably have me fired for caring too much.

[jims69camaro]

if that was my kid he'd get a shift kick in the ass every time he acted up...parents are too afraid to discipline kids today

i don't think it's fear so much as either apathy or a lack of judgment. the blanket statement is that parents do not spend sufficient time with their kids, and through their parents the kids learn to blame someone else when something goes wrong. it was the twinkies that made me do it.

[qwikz28]

i don't think it's fear so much as either apathy or a lack of judgment. the blanket statement is that parents do not spend sufficient time with their kids, and through their parents the kids learn to blame someone else when something goes wrong. it was the twinkies that made me do it.
i read on the news that a parent sued a school for a teacher yelling at a kid after the kid did something wrong. supposedly the teacher was too harsh and emotionally scarred the kid.

when i came home crying as a kid cause my teacher yelled at me or something my mother would beat the **** out of me and ask me what i did to deserve the teacher being upset with me.

[Tsar]

when i came home crying as a kid cause my teacher yelled at me or something my mother would beat the **** out of me and ask me what i did to deserve the teacher being upset with me.
same here only it was my dad and he used his big army belt...

[Savage_Messiah]

They didn't catch the ****er until Indiana!!! Lancaster, PA to Indiana... what the ****?!?

[jims69camaro]

They didn't catch the ****er until Indiana!!! Lancaster, PA to Indiana... what the ****?!?


he had a headstart.

my parents believed in violence as a way to discipline. i don't think i am emotionally scarred as a result. more telling was the fact that my father was never around because he was always working. he'd pop in on the weekend to mete out the punishments and then be off again on monday. his excuse for working so much was that he wanted a better life for me than the one he had had.

since his father was never around, either, i guess all he did was repeat history...

[Tsar]

Send all the troubled kids to my country for punishment. After they their ass kicked by random people for no good reason and realize that the cops dont give a **** about little random fight on the street, unless someone dies. They'll change and be nicer again! :lol:

[Mike]

i deal with scumbags like him 16 hours a day, 5 days a week.....its an epidemic

[NJSPEEDER]

i deal with scumbags like him 16 hours a day, 5 days a week.....its an epidemic

there is jsut as large a problem on the end that you see because our prison systems are based on babysitting more than actual rehabilitation.
to me that is more of a sign of apathy than epidemic. lock 'em up, leave 'em for a while til they are good and pissed, then let them back out without ever teaching them a single lesson or encouraging them to learn a marketable skill/trade.
i will stop before i start another one of my "what is wrong with society....." rants.