Disgusting D:

Man i dont get my cell phone till 16. well til i get my license.

 

What kind of parents would let little kids go out like that?! That's like just asking some creepy old man to come and abduct them! And the thing with the nose... I can see someone getting a baby's ears done (I got mine at six months so my ears wouldn't become sensitive.) but the nose? My mom wouldn't even let me get that done if I wanted to and I'm 16. ​

 

I hugely disagree, we aren't the ones dressing up pre-teens in adult clothing, we aren't the ones who let kids run around acting like grown ups before they are even in high school. Kids grow up too fast because parents don't care as much anymore, that and the media. Kids are confronted on a daily basis by **** like Bratz and Hannah Montana, magazines and celebrities who fall out of cars wearing no panties. It isn't our generation that is at fault, we are the ones who having to deal with it.

 

society in general is to blame.The way society is going they'll all end up like scumbags.There parents were brought up in a world without boundaries and thought morality was a formality and pushed it aside and they did what they wanted and now allow there spouse to do what they wanted.Thats why people are coming out as scumbags and whores, because society permitted them to do so.

 

Society isn't parents. Society should not have to clean up after bad parents. Again, WE don't let kids do what they do, it's the irresponsible parents that do. With that parenting, the kid turns out just as irrespponsible, if not moreso, as the parent.

 

everyone is society including parents which means it society that is to blame.Sure not everyone is irresponsible, but those who are, are still apart of society and therefore society is to blame.

 

well, to be honest, those 2 girls that were shopping, how they were dressed just seems harmless to me. they might've just been playing dress up or something. it does bother me when i see kids with cell phones because it's a waste, i really don't think they need one but its' not THAT big a deal for me. what concerns me is that they had no adult supervision.

no, i dont' think society is to blame. sure parents and society might be accountable for little kids acting like idiots, but after a certain age in their life, the now grown up kids should be able to question their own ways and change for the better. because even WITH a proper raising and a good environment, there's only so much OTHER people can do to ensure that a person grows up right. i mean even with a proper raising, it's still VERY possible to grow up into a criminal or something likie that. i don't think the blame goes on society as a whole, that seems like a poor excuse in my opinion. people should be accountable for their OWN actions (with exceptions of course).

 

"Society" also includes things like Television, the Internet, news media, and all those types of things. The way they all focus on an almost unattainable body figure and pounds of makeup "necessary" to look good, it's no surprise to me that these kids look like this. The parents are probably weak-willed and the kids threw tantrums until they got what they wanted. And yes, that would work. In one of my classes, the professor asked us if we were spanked as kids, and I was one of the about 5 kids who raised their hands. Most parents don't know HOW to discipline kids anymore, thus, the kids know that whining and begging work.

 

well, yes, some part of society can be blamed for the kids looking like that. but when they get to a certain age, they have to be able to think for themselves. and going back to what daxma said, society is not why people turn out the way they do, it's a choice that those people as individuals make. i mean it certainly doesn't help that there are negative influences, but people themselves have the final say of what THEY choose to do.

 

My god. Our society is truly breaking down. Actually my younger brother's in 6th grade and all of the girls in his class have been questioning him about his "social life." As in, girlfriends. Even when I was in 6th that kind of thing was going on yet. It's horrible. God, before long 8 year olds will be driving and 9 year olds will be parents. We're becoming more and more reliant on our youth.

 

No, because 8 year olds can't reach the pedals of a car, and 9 year olds would die in childbirth. There are natural limitations on most things. And no, if anything, our youth are becoming less and less controllable, because the liberal government is taking away the means to control them. I mean, when I was growing up, if we got out of line, my mom took a wooden spoon to our backsides. When asked in class how many of us got physical punishment as kids, almost no one said yes. Now, it is almost a CRIME to spank your kids in public!

 

They'll find a way around it. Like the 9 year old brazilian girl who got pregnant with twins and got aborted. It may have been rape but sooner or later, kids are going to start having sex earlier and we're gonna see elementary kids with STDs, girls get pregnant at an early age and more abortions because their body won't handle it. And of course we'll have the dumb family who thinks maybe there's a chance her body can handle it and not abort it and then that girl will die. Kids are getting sexually active these days before they even hit puberty.

My mom scared the hell outta me when i was lil lol when she got really mad, shed get her belt on me. I understand not physically punishing yr child in public, but sometimes a child needs to learn about punishment the physical way, not child abuse, but damn if yr kid is being a little brat, spank the motherfu$$er!

By the time they reach that "certain age" it's too late, the media has those images and ideas carved into their minds. Theyll think for themselves using what they learned as kids as a base for their thoughts/personality/actions

 

society and the way ppl view each other has to be one culprit that blame can be placed on... also the way younger ppl look up to older ones and idolize them. no one tells them not to stop and be young anymore, they just let them do it because its considered the "norm" and the "ways things are." it is pretty nasty, though, isn't it? :D

 

Oh crap. I see this a lot. My friend always gives them a dirty look and says "What, they think they're hot stuff?"

The parents, I just don't know how they could think it's okay. My mom gave me my first cell phone when I was 10, and I don't think I really used it much until I got the phone I currently have, which I got last July. I never wore makeup much until I got into high school, either. The first time I put on eyeliner was last year in my freshman year. I don't like to go out looking like I want to get laid, I want to go out looking, well respectable isn't the word, that sounds too granny-ish to me, but appropriate. Nice, but not over-the-top. And my mom would sure as hell notice if I did something like THAT.

 

Kinda like the girls who wear nice, respectable clothing and dress down the second they're out out of the house.


I dont kno how ppl could give kids cell phones that young, I didn't get mine till my Sophomore year when I was 15. And I barely used it because the cell company f^cked up and it was almost never activated, i didn't even have it a full year.
The end of my junior year I got my own with money I made while I worked.

 

I don't even understand why wearing makeup is considered ****ty in the first place, really. But then, I've never understood fashion at all.

I never got my cell phone until I started driving, in my Junior/Senior year of high school. It was only to be used to talk with the family and only rarely could I use it to talk to friends ( only have one anyways, and I saw him often enough that I didn't have to call him). Now that I am at college, I use it a lot more, but only because I don't have a normal phone in my dorm room. I still don't have texting or any of that sh....tuff though. I would never use it anyways. IMO, if you want to talk to someone, you call them and talk voice-to-voice, or better yet, go talk right to their faces. I truly do not understand people who carry on text conversations. It's probably more expensive than calling them.

 

wow thats truly pathetic. the ones to blame is the parents in my opinion. kids that age dont have that choice to poerce their noses, and even they did i dont think they would. the omly thing i have to say about that is WTF?!?!

 

The media is most definitely to blame for the behavior of this generation. I'm not saying that parents have nothing to do with it, they certainly are, but think of the shows that children are confronted with. The characters on these shows are usually in their teens (Hannah Montana, Drake and Josh, 6Teen, etc), and these shows are aimed to [and watched by] kids 6-12 years old. They're growing up looking up to these characters, and try to be like them. The shows that don't teach children things like this (kiddy shows) are fine, I have no beef with them, but children outgrow them quickly. At age 6 I was still watching Powerpuff Girls and wearing clothes from Oshkosh (that store was the **** by the way).

I'm astounded by how young children get things like iPods, cellphones, and computers. I got my first cellphone when I 10, and yes, that's very young, but I shared it with my older sisters, and the only reason we had it was because our father was an unreliable prick and we needed someway to get in touch with our mom when we were at his house. I got my iPod when I was 12, which I think is a reasonable age. Mine is rather outdated now, and my 7 year old cousin has the $300 one. I think that's a little messed up. Parents don't understand how to set restrictions on their children, and it really is depressing.
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the parents because they either do not have enough sense to know that its wrong or they dont care, which is bad

 

I think the media is to blame. Parents can try to stop their kids from growing up too fast, but the moment kids leave the house for school or otherwise, friends and the media dictate how they live. It's hard to fight back against TV, movies, and music that kids are exposed to.

TV shows and movies especially annoy me. They show actors and actresses in their 20s playing characters who are supposed to be 16 or 14! Little girls see that and feel that they should look 20 when they're 16. It's stupid! They try to act grown up and mature the way TV defines maturity (often being sexy or hot).

I wish finishing schools would become a fad again. Where girls and boys could learn how to behave and common courtesy. Instead of TV and mass media telling them how to act, people should teach them.