What is going on with today’s youth??? Or today’s parents??? Or both Call me crazy but when I grew-up I had rules, I had curfew, I got a job when I turned 16 and before that I had a paper route, I wasn’t allowed to stay up all night and sleep all day, I had chores, I got grounded, I didn’t dare curse at my parents. Now it seems like either parents are too worried with being their child’s “friend” rather than parent OR these children/teenagers have just learned how to walk all over adults and do what they want when they want. The language, disrespect and laziness shown by some of today’s youth is APPALING! Get them up get them out of bed off the computer, off their phones, and start teaching them to be functioning contributing members of society instead of little pompous brats who feel entitled and untouchable. Oh and if your child has done nothing but curse at you, keep you up at night, and defy you, and fail at school here’s a tip DON’T GIVE THEM CHRISTMAS PRESENTS DUMB ASS!!!!!! STOP REWARDING BAD BEHAVIOR!!!! —….
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Just to play Devil’s advocate, I’ll bet:
1. you’re single and childless
2. you are over 45 years old and generally afraid of getting any older
3. recently had a younger person back-talk you
They learned it from their parents who are likely a bunch of union entitled government workers, or even worse, bus drivers.
What’s up with old people using more than one exclamation mark, or more that one question mark? I’ve seen executives and vice presidents of large companies do this.
Seriously, it makes you look like a bunch of idiots.
There’s not enough of spankings or the fear of that dreaded sentence “Just wait until your father gets home”. Of course there are many fathers out of the picture and too many mothers opening their legs to any idiot that comes along. Then they get into trouble. OB you’re right, things in the last 20 or so years have gone to hell in a handbasket. Imagine anyone saying something so stupid as babydaddy. We need more fear and shame in the world.
“we need more fear and shame in the world”otay
Oh, fuck off, OP, there are many good kids out there. My kid works, has her own place, goes to uni on her own dime. Since she moved out, she hasn’t asked us for squat. She calls us because we don’t harass her with our shit like so many parents do. Respect goes both ways.
We can’t spoil her with Xmas gifts because we gave up that shit three years ago. She loves the fact we are untraditional and not caught up in the materialism of the season.
We didn’t too damn bad for a couple of old stoners. Phhhttttttt!!!!
pfft, you must be old. Kids don’t fail school anymore, silly.
Bastard Fish there is, apparently, a word for over use of exclamation marks, to make your statement seem more exciting; BANGGORRHEA. According to the Urban Dictionary.
A lot of old people love the company of youngsters, ask your local Bishop or Priest.
STOP BEATING YOURSELF UP!
You must stop beating yourself up!
A pleasure as always.
Cheerio!
I never had a curfew. My parents trusted my ass.
Sorry op. But this is the principle lament of EVERY generation as they start getting old. The kids haven’t changed, op. The old people haven’t changed either. Nobody has changed fundamentally.
YOU have.
I never had a curfew, either.
… because they knew if I ever did any bad shit I’d just come home and confess. That and my parents are way cooler than me and got a kick out of it when I came home drunk that one time when I was 17.
When my dad was 17 he was living in California and had a recording contract with a major music label.
I also didn’t have chores… my mother was a realist and said that I’d have the rest of my life to do chores.
She now says she regrets that decision. heh
In any case, I think the problem is that kids aren’t given exposure to rejection these days. Psychologists have been studying the affect of this on children as they enter adulthood and say it’s very detrimental to their psychological health. I have a friend from high school who grew up like this and had an actual nervous breakdown when she got out into the real world.
Employers don’t care about your self esteem.
I hope if I ever have kids, I’ll be a good enough parent to expose them to rejection and failure so they don’t end up as basket cases when they grow up.
Like I said, idiots are born in masses these days.
I dunno, I’m pretty sure kids are bigger douchebags nowadays and adults are somewhat cooler.
why are kids bigger douchebags? And don’t say things like “because they have douchier tools at their disposal” because that doesn’t count. Kids in 1859 would be text-jockeys if the technology had existed back then. A spoiled child in 1859 was the same giant selfish butthead back then that they are today. Perhaps parents are worse at parenting than they used to be, that i can’t say for sure. But the KIDS THEMSELVES are the same fundamental creatures they always were.
Well, prior to 1859 our concept and treatment of youth was vastly different than in this modern era, so we can’t really compare the two.
I didn’t have a curfew or very many rules, and look how I turned out 🙂