kids today suck

When I was a teenager, we would wait for our parents to go to bed so we could sneak out of the house, score some drugs, and hang out with our friends. Nowadays it appears that kids score drugs so they can give them to their parents to drug them to sleep so they can stay up late and ...play on the internet.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nat...d-milkshakes-order-internet-article-1.1232279

Kids today aren't even good at being bad :devil:

 

Never judge before you know the parents

 

That's surprising coming from you, but I agree. Parents always aren't the best and they don't always know best.

 

Well, they did get caught.

 

If being on the internet late is combined with good grades, healthy hobbies, and other human developmental activities, then it was a stupid battle to stage.

 

If us old folks had to keep to those standards, we'd all be offline and in bed by eight p.m.

 

possibly, but its bratty as hell to drug your parents just because they try to set limits and boundaries. Thats what parents are supposed to do.

Although I think you all have a point and we're probably not getting the whole story here.

 

I am seriously glad though that I had a childhood before internet was so big (although I finished it just in time :biggrin

 

Hello,

a few years ago we could read a funny story in the news papers. Schoolchildren baked a cake with weed in it and deposited it in front of the teacher's room of their school. The stupid teachers ate it and acted a little bit strange afterwards . There was a lot of outcries about the bad bad schoolchildren. But why the hell do the teachers ate a cake they just found somewhere?

Regards
Gyro

 

That age can be taught to make decisions about when/if they stay up late and for what reasons. I doubt any parent would say "lights out at 10" if that kid was studying for the SATs. Likely these parent were authoritarian, rather than authoritative.....meaning they barked orders instead of reasoned with their kids.

Yet, drugging parents is a bit extreme.

 

It's not like we don't drug kids.

 

indeed! My mom actually came home a few days ago to find an unsealed, unmarked cake sitting on her porch. She threw it out...who would eat a random, anonymous cake??

I think thats a funny, harmless prank and I think the girls in question in the article I posted are horrible brats...I guess the difference lies in intent. The school kids giving pot cake to their parents weren't trying to gain anything but a few laughs. Whereas the girls with the milkshakes were trying to control their parents for their own selfish reasons.

 

45 years ago when we were kids we sucked too.

 

I can't say for sure because my baby is still a baby, but I feel like my parenting style will probably be quite relaxed.....except when it comes to television and internet. I think its important for children and teenagers to interact with the world. I will definitely limit tv and internet time, but I'll probably be pretty loose when it comes to letting my kids hang out with their friends or stay outside late.

These parents may not have been strict. Maybe they just feel the same way I do about limiting a kids daily tv and internet time. It could go either way.

 

Hello,

some teachers does not seem to have a problem with that...

Of course, the two situations are different. i can't say anything about the two girls. Maybe they're just stupid, maybe the whole environment they live in, the familly is not working as one may wish. I don't know.

Regards
Gyro

 

Drugged their parents? Man! Most I ever did was steal their whiskey and stay away from them every chance I got. Drugs were not an issue in the 50s. Every generation sucks to the old cracks.

 

Get off my lawn!!!

 

Hello,

I don't have kids. I deal with engineers, that's virtually the same. Just bigger hands . Anyways, I think the trouble is not limiting tv or internet time. The trouble is to provide some alternatives for the kids, so they can get creative. I grew up in an rural enviroment. I could always go out in the woods, make an (illegal) fire, snarf (illegal too) a trout from the neighbours pond, build tree houses etc ppp. But today many kids in urban environments can't do this. Why are there so many mall rats? Because often there are no other ways for them to spend their time. I guess most kids today still wants to explore and build things.

Regards
Gyro

 

Hello,

Ruhe!!!

Regards
Gyro

 

Yep, I'm relaxed too, although I maintained a level of formality when it came to whom they hung out with. I didn't prohibit anyone, just went through a process of getting to know the parents and the setting. On a few occassions I "cautioned" my kids about certain types so they would be aware.

My 15 year old son is super into PC gaming. Now in and of itself, it is a totally stupid activity. Bigger picture tho, is that it's a huge industry that employs a lot of people and has an enornous market, and has got him interested in hardware and computer science and programming.