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LindaH    | | posted 27-Jul-2008 12:51am |
Yes, but not a majority of kids. And there have always been rude kids. It's nothing new. |
| Pomeranian | | posted 27-Jul-2008 1:11am |
I agree. |
LJD   | | posted 27-Jul-2008 2:14am |
Yes. Many children, young adults haven't manners today. They have no respect. The young have filthy mouths. I blame this on the media, the broken home, lack of Biblical training, the schools. When I was young I never heard foul language in our home. There was no alcohol, or drugs. There was not filth on TV, or movies. I never heard it in the schools. Only when I met my ex husband, did I hear foul language, and it was rare. I would never have thought of being disrespectful. We children behaved in public, and other peoples homes. |
Melf  | | posted 27-Jul-2008 4:04am |
I seriously couldn't care less. The older generations are always going to whinge about the younger generations. |
| LJD | | (reply to Melf) posted 27-Jul-2008 7:41am |
Melf, many of the younger generations haven't the proper training, they've been dumbed down for several generations. I've heard such horrible language from many of the young today, I can hardly believe it. Surely you care...it will be these people that you'll have to raise your future generations around. What do you want for your children? |
| Cain | | posted 27-Jul-2008 7:59am |
That's a very sweeping statement. True, some kids don't have any manners, but most do.
Which I believe is the way its always been. |
| Melf | | (reply to LJD) posted 27-Jul-2008 8:05am |
I don't want children. I support VHMT. I also don't know how more people going to college and university means we have been dumbed down. |
| LJD | | (reply to Melf) posted 27-Jul-2008 8:18am |
I often thought, when I was young, how important education was. But, as I've grown older, matured, I see things I think are bad. Remember, education is big business. Corporate business train people into being what they want...to create a system. I think with too much education people become more self absorbed, almost ungodly, empowered, they don't need God's guidance. Obviously, some education is important, but some I think is unnecessary. Education becomes like a government of sorts. The education system leans to the left, I was told this by the principal at a local high school. |
| they | | posted 27-Jul-2008 8:22am |
I can't answer this because the only kid I've seen today is one with manners.
So, all kids today have manners so far... but I may come across one later who doesn't. |
| they | | (reply to LJD) posted 27-Jul-2008 8:24am |
> Melf, many of the younger
> generations haven't the proper
> training, they've been dumbed
> down for several generations.
> I've heard such horrible
> language from many of the
> young today, I can hardly
> believe it. Surely you care...it
> will be these people that
> you'll have to raise your
> future generations around.
> What do you want for your
> children?
Why all the hype over words? Curse words are just letters put together to form sounds. Why do some of them bother you more than others? Why do you use this to determine who's "dumbed down"?
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| jettles | | (reply to LJD) posted 27-Jul-2008 8:24am |
so you want the young to be dumbed down in the way YOU want them to be dumbed down. you said part of the problem was we were dumbed down but part of the problem is that we are educated!!?? does that really make sense?? |
| bill | | (reply to Melf) posted 27-Jul-2008 8:44am |
Voluntary Human Extinction Movement - holy crap, that's awesome |
| southernyankee | | posted 27-Jul-2008 10:11am |
No, kids are about as bad (or good) as they always have been. |
| Melf | | (reply to bill) posted 27-Jul-2008 10:26am |
I love it. I love their attitude, as well. |
| bill | | (reply to Melf) posted 27-Jul-2008 11:01am |
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| Melf | | (reply to bill) posted 27-Jul-2008 11:08am |
Ooh, cool. |
| LindaH | | (reply to LJD) posted 27-Jul-2008 11:30am |
What is your definition of "empowered"? |
| Galomorro | | posted 27-Jul-2008 11:35am |
I think it's probably true. I try to stay as far away from kids as I can. They're too loud, use offensive language around old people, and do graffiti all over the place. |
| Enheduanna | | posted 27-Jul-2008 12:36pm |
No, I think it's true that as always, people lose their perspective as they get older. |
| llamamama | | posted 27-Jul-2008 12:45pm |
My, isn't this a loaded question?
I don't believe that's true at all. Of course, maybe I'm a little biased just as the adults who have no kids might be biased the other way.
To belive that no kid has manners is so rediculous.
I'm willing to bet, that back in the 60s/70s/whenever the heck you were growing up..there were kids who did the same exact stuff you're accusing the youth today of doing. There have always been smart smouth, snarky teenagers. The fact that the decades have changed doesn't change that.
I mean, questions like these really irk me. "Ah yes, kids today don't know how to act...la la la la la." You know what, I bet that when you were a kid and did something bad (that never happened though, right?) that your parents said the exact same thing.
Part of being a teenager is unfortunately testing your limits. So, just remember that you probably did the same thing.
Hm, using myself as an example, I only cuss..and when I do that I never ever ever ever ever do it with an adult (especially my parents) present. I respect adults too much for them to hear me say stuff like that.
And, for the record, cussing and swearing are the same thing. |
| JessicaWoman99 | | posted 27-Jul-2008 1:15pm |
Some kids they do have their good manners and i would not say all kids |
| romkey | | posted 27-Jul-2008 4:54pm |
There's a difference between what you see and what is. What and how you see is as likely to have changed over time as the thing you're observing.
And no - kids have always done that. They're kids. That's what they do. |
| LJD | | (reply to jettles) posted 27-Jul-2008 5:24pm |
The schools, entertainment, the media are avenues of indoctrination. The indoctrination was done over a period of time, in increments. Those young people don't know it because they know nothing else. As I've said this country was founded on Christian principles...yes, I like our culture, based on Christian principles.
I feel people have been led into a money system that is not in our best interests. The educational system is nothing more than "change agents". The money system is out to indebt people, to enslave them, make them dependent to a centralized government, we're puppets with strings being pulled by the one world elitists.
Obviously, there needs to be some education...depending on what it is. I don't believe in way out fields in science, that are pure evil. Education for every day life to survive, is a must. I think the medical, and legal fields have turned corrupt for the most part because of greed...the same for corporate business. We are supposed to be a civilized country, and for the most part we are, but the American soldier citizen that want a moral, legal country, a country with a conscience, a country without drugs running rampant, one that is founded on God's principles, need to step up and fight the enemy within. |
| LJD | | (reply to LindaH) posted 27-Jul-2008 5:26pm |
Empowered, to do the bidding of the enemy within...the system. |
| Crayons | | posted 27-Jul-2008 6:17pm |
No, that was yesterday. Kids will be kids! Keep me out of it. |
gambler  | | posted 27-Jul-2008 7:36pm |
Yea to a point.........Obv this is a wide generalisation.... but with internet, Movies etc its become more and more "ok" at least the swearing thing and the whole coproral punishment issue and the not hitting your children |
| Matty | | posted 28-Jul-2008 8:21am |
Kids have manners when they are raised right; The better question is whether or not parents are teaching manners. |
Iseult  | | posted 28-Jul-2008 9:32am |
Sure, there are kids with no manners today. There's also plenty adults with no manners, so go figure. |
| jettles | | (reply to LJD) posted 28-Jul-2008 10:03am |
so you want to teach what you think people should be taught and nothing else.............. that also seems a form of indoctrination. |
| LJD | | (reply to jettles) posted 28-Jul-2008 10:25am |
So it comes down to different philosphies. I believe in the Bible, and there are those that don't believe in the Bible. |
| jess82091 | | (reply to LJD) posted 28-Jul-2008 12:31pm |
I disagree, of course there are plenty of young adults who use foul language, but then there are many adults as well. Therefore leading me to believe that it isn't just this generation. I mean the adults are the ones teaching the children to behave that way. I very rarely swear, but my grandparents on the other hand do constantly. However, I'm sure multiple generations ago alot of our behavior would be unheard of. |
| jettles | | (reply to LJD) posted 28-Jul-2008 1:55pm |
and it also comes down to different interpretations of the bible and it's meaning........... |
| RainingFeathers | | posted 28-Jul-2008 8:26pm |
In many instances, yes. I know some kids that have wonderful manners, but most of the children I`ve encountered act quite rudely. I`m not sure they mean to be rude, it`s just that they`re being brought up in a different environment. |
| LindaH | | posted 28-Jul-2008 10:37pm |
I think we should focus more on what is really important. Does the behavior interrupt, harm or inconvenience people? That sort of thing. I'm not sure that it is such a bad thing to turn a blind eye to cussing and whatnot. |
| LJD | | (reply to jess82091) posted 29-Jul-2008 7:09am |
I guess I feel the children/teens today do more, because I've observed so much of it. I never heard foul language when a young person. My parents/grandparents/aunts/uncles/cousins, you name it, they did not curse, at least around me. Even as an adult, I've never heard the family swear. I have heard it, but rarely from my adult sons, who work in construction. My daughters do not swear. My husband is the king of the one four letter word. I think I can count on one hand how many times I've said the "F" word, and when I have, it was at my husband, never in front of my children, or grandchildren. I had to be pretty angry at my husband.
I have heard teens talk so foul, twist words, it makes me sick. If the kids do it today, generally speaking, it was learning from school, the media, entertainment, videos and from the generations of parents that have been tainted by the liberal movement. |
| LJD | | (reply to jettles) posted 29-Jul-2008 7:11am |
The Bible itself, has it's own language. You have to know the language of the day..but the true meaning, intent is the same always. |
| Irene007 | | posted 29-Jul-2008 12:56pm |
In part, yes. Many just don't have proper parents. I can't tolerate kids that push the parents around - I think that's rude... |
| moviesnob | | posted 29-Jul-2008 5:17pm |
There are plenty of good kids out there for every batch of bad apples. |
| cloudhugger | | posted 29-Jul-2008 7:51pm |
I see plenty of kids with manners today. |
| jindalmeenakshi9 |
kids are getting uncontrolable compared to days when I was younger , but you can't help considering the environment they are growing up. |
| Melf | | (reply to LJD) posted 3-Aug-2008 4:07pm |
Sorry it's taken me a while to get this.
I think that most people aren't getting education for the sake of education, which is a shame. I'll get to that later. I think that many people who go to college and university are mainly thinking about what career they're going to end up with. I would assume that with the rise of modern technology, more and more jobs are created in computing and those kind of sectors. To get into any science, you need further education. I'm not necessarily talking about scientists who just study man or even just biology - though further education here is obviously essential; I mean scientists who work with computers, or electronics and machinery; in transport and research.
Education is big business, but I'd rather have a corporate business educating than people having fewer capabilities to develop their skills in an area they want to go into. With education comes a further understanding - but not just for the individual, for the human race as a whole.
I would prefer for there to be as little bias in education as possible. Whether it be left, right, for or against this or that; one's political beliefs are personal; it would be daft to try and teach anything political as definitely right or definitely wrong. However, of course, there is bias. But I think that the left bias comes from the reluctance concerning education from the right wing, and not the other way round.
You say that with more education people become 'self absorbed, almost ungodly, empowered', and that 'they don't need God's guidance'. I think it's sad that you think being without education is what God wants. Doesn't he help those who help themselves? It would be a shame if God didn't want people to know more about his world.
I think education for the sake of education is something amazing. I think that learning is one of the few worthwhile activities anyone can do with their life - this is because knowledge is the opposite of ignorance, and ignorance is something I loathe. |
| AlexelA |
Not all...
Oh, I should know since I'm a kid 
Well, bad words and stuff like that are being transferred to children from adults, TV, music, and more. They just pick it up, IMO |
| spankbyrd |
In my day you respected people, this seems to have gone. This is the Parents falt. Sometimes a spanking does work. |
| justjulie | | posted 16-Aug-2008 8:46am |
yeah...have met many a children who just need a good ass-whipping just once |
