I would hardly bash you, I understand where you are coming from. No matter what you say, wrong or right, most teens will bash you or disagree just to prove their point and just be idiotically stubborn. Most teens are in an emotional and mental transition phase durring these years (from a psycological point of view) to prove their independence, maturity, man/womanhood, and establish their social role at home, school, or in society. These are the years teens break away from being dependant upon their parents and are trying to become a mature adult. Yes most are stupid, ignorant, rude, obnoxious, and damn right annoying however they do not know or undestand another way to express their emotions.

Kids are not necessarily bored when they get involved in body midification, R movies, or other interests that technically are out of their league. Primarily speaking most kids are looking for acceptance or guidence among their peers. As they grow up and break away from their family unit trying to mature and become independant, they find a second family within these hobbies/interests that make them feel loved and accepted in a way, gives them a sense of belonging.

Most of all it comes down to is the role of the parents. "Monkey see Monkey Do". Parents should be an example to their children and put them in their place, the adults let their kids walk all over them. In my experience when a mother or father are in public treating waitresses/workers like trash and verbally abuse them (demeaning them) the kids DO learn and will act the same way to others, and eventually learn to disrespect their parents as well. Another problem is that the local school systems (Holy Trinity is on my shit list for this) do not notify parents or guardians when kids do lash out to other either verbally or viloently. The parents need to step up and BE THE PARENT! Im all for a slap on the butt everynow and then to keep kids in line, althought there should always be limitaions and I do not condone any hitting that leads to abuse, just light little threats and stuff. Ive been smacked in the butt by my dad, totally straightened me out and I never did "that thing" again trust me.
In addition, most of the parents don't respect their parents and just throw them in nursing homes and yell at them. If they took the time to learn/understand (in most cases) then their own kids will do the same for them and learn respect. Personally I grew up in a military household so respect is given and expected at all times, that is what I have always been taught and without my parents around even I always let elders go first and helo out.....kharma cuz Im gonna be an old fogie eventually too.

wow, sorry I wrote so much but this is a heated topic for me since I hate all kids from 8-18 mostly cuz they are rude and obnoxious. As far as Holy Trinity goes if one more kid just walks in front of my car demanding me to stop as they "SLOWLY strut their fat ass across the street" in the middle of the road, next time I won't break. learn to use the crosswalk and wait for no cars......
And if you try to smash your fists against my car because I didn't bow down to your "short skirt slut of a school girl outfit at that stop sign" i will get out of my car and give you the beating your momma should......I drive by 4-5 times a day there to get coffee and not once have I had a good experience.....im gonna go postal!

k......now ya'll can rip on what i think...lol

AndyWrote:
OK...I'm going to "stir the pot" a little and start some real conversation and maybe even controversy.



First of all, I'd like to know why everytime I post something on myspace, some teen has to point out my age as if that has anything to do with my opinion. WTF? I guess teens don't have any respect for older people anymore. If that's the case, it will backfire, because in 20 or 30 years the next generations will have even less respect for them when they are 40. If that's the kind of world they want for their future...the can have it.



Another thing about today's teens are their extreme tendancies towards violence. I mean, metal detectors are needed at schools now?!? Maybe the media is partailly to blame since TV, video games, movies and records have also become very violent. We didn't need TV ratings when I was a kid and there were just as many "G rated films as there were "R" back then.

But back to the violent teens. Looking here on myspace, I can see teens are into things like tattoos, piercings, gothic-vampire lifestyles, bondage, etc...

Are you THAT bored? Is the world so dull for you that you need to hurt and torture yourselves? Seriously, I'd like to hear an explaination for this. Sure, every generation of teens whats to be "different" and rebelous, but where do we draw the line?








OK....now you can start bashing me. :)

Teens and younger people are what soictey made them, We grew up with our parents vaules as goes for them. Times change dude and with chaning time comes poeple changing so with that shit is going to be the way you remember it. And Don't give me this shit where kids are more viloent today cause my mom was a hippie but in hear days and she remembers people beating the god fearing shit of people. You are nothing more then some with there head up there ass that they probly haven't seen the light of day for 22 years. So please try to do something but with your time, and i got my first tattoo at 17 with my mom, It says "Never Forget". As i got that my mother being older then you got the very same one on her leg so....

Dude it's all about growing up, finding who they are. Some people seriously have a love for the goth shit, where at the same time, I agree it's ridiculous. I mean, when I was in highschool, I was a total faggot. I wore Abercrombie all the time, if it wasn't more than $50 it wasn't clothes worth wearing. Now, I just shop at JC Penny's...why the fuck waste money on name brand clothing? It's all about finding an identity, trying to find something to be a part of, and when you grow up, you kind of realize, shit, I don't need that. Half the time I go out wearing a dark brown undershirt that I wear with my uniform during the day. You just realize the important things in life once you're out there in the real world, and out of mommy and daddy's protection.

i completely agree with the person above me that it's not our fault that our generation turned out this way. time changed people's behaviors and this is what it has lead to..

but i can safely say that those are complete stereotypes because i know i for one dont fit any of that stuff. and about the gothic thing -- ill tell you, even kids my age dont understand why people do it. we have conversations about this with teachers and no one understand why somene would want to do that ..

Highh on James ..Wrote:
i completely agree with the person above me that it's not our fault that our generation turned out this way. time changed people's behaviors and this is what it has lead to..



but i can safely say that those are complete stereotypes because i know i for one dont fit any of that stuff. and about the gothic thing -- ill tell you, even kids my age dont understand why people do it. we have conversations about this with teachers and no one understand why somene would want to do that ..

Attention. People just want attention cause they feel they are the nobodies. If they can't earn their way to the top, they want to freak people out. As far as I'm concerned, they just look retarted though.

AndyWrote:
OK...I'm going to "stir the pot" a little and start some real conversation and maybe even controversy.



First of all, I'd like to know why everytime I post something on myspace, some teen has to point out my age as if that has anything to do with my opinion. WTF? I guess teens don't have any respect for older people anymore. If that's the case, it will backfire, because in 20 or 30 years the next generations will have even less respect for them when they are 40. If that's the kind of world they want for their future...the can have it.



Another thing about today's teens are their extreme tendancies towards violence. I mean, metal detectors are needed at schools now?!? Maybe the media is partailly to blame since TV, video games, movies and records have also become very violent. We didn't need TV ratings when I was a kid and there were just as many "G rated films as there were "R" back then.

But back to the violent teens. Looking here on myspace, I can see teens are into things like tattoos, piercings, gothic-vampire lifestyles, bondage, etc...

Are you THAT bored? Is the world so dull for you that you need to hurt and torture yourselves? Seriously, I'd like to hear an explaination for this. Sure, every generation of teens whats to be "different" and rebelous, but where do we draw the line?





OK....now you can start bashing me. :)

i htink its all about the fashion and times always change. If the way the world lives every generation didnt change then we would still have slave. Fashion as in that piercings make u look good and tatoos look cool etc. i am getting a tatoo but not to look cool but because its somehting i believe in ( of course its gonna look good to lol)

that dpends on the kid and how mature he is and how much he understands his environment