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<blockquote data-quote="muttmeister" data-source="post: 460734" data-attributes="member: 135"><p>I try not to be one of those old people who always are saying that the world is going to he!! in a handbasket but it is getting harder and harder. It was Plato or Aristotle who wrote a whole diatribe about how the younger generation was going to the dogs and the world would probably not survive another generation. I know that times change and it is not always for the worse but I think you're right about this one.</p><p></p><p>I get that parents don't always want to raise their kids the way they were raised. But threating children like mini adults is doing them no favors. We have preschool kids with smart mouths who expect to be treated like teenagers. We have elementary school kids wearing sexy clothes and bringing cell phones to school and being mad that they can't use them in class. We have middle school kids drinking and doing drugs and having sex at earlier and earlier ages. We have high school kids who think they should run the school and that they know more than the adults. We have college students who have never had to work at anything and are mad if they aren't given A's for minimal effort. We have young adults who have never learned that privileges have to be worked for and that many things have to be earned; they expect to be handed things on a silver platter. </p><p></p><p>I do know that not ALL kid or ALL parents fall in that catgory but I think our society as a whole is traveling in that direction. Not only does giving children adult privileges make adulthood somehow less; it also makes childhood something less. While they are wearing their sexy clothes and texting on their cell phones and running their parents' lives, they are missing out on a lot of the joys of childhood. We are cheating them out of a lot of the joys and lessons that children should learn by making them into little mini adults.</p><p></p><p>I think a lot of it comes from the media and from companies trying to sell their products to younger and younger consumers. Don't know the solution but I sure see the problem.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="muttmeister, post: 460734, member: 135"] I try not to be one of those old people who always are saying that the world is going to he!! in a handbasket but it is getting harder and harder. It was Plato or Aristotle who wrote a whole diatribe about how the younger generation was going to the dogs and the world would probably not survive another generation. I know that times change and it is not always for the worse but I think you're right about this one. I get that parents don't always want to raise their kids the way they were raised. But threating children like mini adults is doing them no favors. We have preschool kids with smart mouths who expect to be treated like teenagers. We have elementary school kids wearing sexy clothes and bringing cell phones to school and being mad that they can't use them in class. We have middle school kids drinking and doing drugs and having sex at earlier and earlier ages. We have high school kids who think they should run the school and that they know more than the adults. We have college students who have never had to work at anything and are mad if they aren't given A's for minimal effort. We have young adults who have never learned that privileges have to be worked for and that many things have to be earned; they expect to be handed things on a silver platter. I do know that not ALL kid or ALL parents fall in that catgory but I think our society as a whole is traveling in that direction. Not only does giving children adult privileges make adulthood somehow less; it also makes childhood something less. While they are wearing their sexy clothes and texting on their cell phones and running their parents' lives, they are missing out on a lot of the joys of childhood. We are cheating them out of a lot of the joys and lessons that children should learn by making them into little mini adults. I think a lot of it comes from the media and from companies trying to sell their products to younger and younger consumers. Don't know the solution but I sure see the problem. [/QUOTE]
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