Are children growing up so fast?

Well I think that with technology and all we are exposed to so many ideas that we are definitely moving very fast. People are experimenting with stuff we need to maintain a sense of self. I think that makeup is fine, but children who want to do this are young I guess. Why do you not want them to wear it? I think it is fine, it is a form of self expression. Also we all wear forms of make-up. But really I wanted to wear the make-up early. Earlier than allowed. I think that wearing make-up is fun. Maybe wearing makeup isn't a form of growing up, but maintaining with the times. We are pressured in ways that are different. Just from the changing times and environments.

Yeah..sometimes i think like that too..i remember when i was a kid,there was only one entertainment, from a state-owned TV,we used to play in complex as there weren`t too many cars,not so polluted,we still played with old-fashioned games and toys..now,my 10 year-old nephew knows almost all FB games, they are more familiar with internet.so many private TV stations and unfortunately, less children-friendly programs on TV.. It depend on their parents how they deal with it..they can`t monitor 24 hr but at least.parents must supervise their kid`s online activity and be with them when they are watching TV

I think its a shame that they are in such a rush to be "grown up" but, its retailers, the media, parents who influence their thinking. Its no wonder there are so many psychological problems and conditions seen in youngsters nowadays - there is too much pressure put on them. Let children actually BE children. Their minds are not being given the chance to learn about the simple pleasures of being innocent and carefree. I accept that I have to get older but I certainly have no intention of growing up

I absolutely agree with you. Children are maturing much faster these days. I think this is happening because they are exposed to more sophisticated thingss than previous generations along with having more freedom and choices. The computer has really been a big part of technology that has added to a lot of children's awareness about life. They seem to ecperience things and see things at a younger and younger age. Let's don't even talk about what the television is doing to children's minds. I think it is much healthier for children to stay innocent as long as they can. There is plenty of time to grow up. If children grow up too quickly they seem to want to revert to childhood when they become adults. We've all seen this with many child starts in movies and television. I had a fairly simple childhood and I'm glad to have those memories. Let children be children as long as they can.

I think that you were referring directly to my seven-year-old daughter when you wrote this post. She wants to wear makeup every single day. She wants to wear it to school and she wants to wear it at home. The makeup thing doesn't make any sense to me at all either because I'm her mother and I never wear makeup save for the rare special occasion when my husband and I are going to a formal event. She hangs out with children that are older than her and gets along with them better than children her own age. She is really something else. I just wish like you've said that she would be able to stay little longer.

2 things: Internet and television and when they combine?, the term called "Peer Pressure" Comes in... stuff like gadgets and makeups didn't exist long ago.

Yes unfortunately they do grow up to fast now and it is a shame as they are not enjoying their Childhood like they should do Like you say they should be carefree and worry about what to wear, how they look and wearing Make up it is really sad

yes my nephew always willing to grow up more fast than what he does so he can talk like adult. he often said:"look. i'm like an adult now" that's really funny and recall my memory that i also have such dreams when i was a child and thought the adults can do everything but after grown up. want back to childhood again.

How happiness family you have!I still have not got a girlfriend so i have no bady.But i feel i am growing up so fast.Like a dream, I have growed up to be an adult from a child.I usually yearn my childhood.

Yes indeed they are growing up so fast. Like my son for instance, I only went out and bought him a pair of shoes like a month or two ago and here he is telling me his shoes are a bit tight already. I had to go out and make a trip to a mall where I can buy cheaper pants and clothes because he's getting taller. I mentioned it to him how fast he is growing because it was just like yesterday I was holding him in my arms and singing songs that makes him sleep. But now, he thinks he's a big boy who can go to the mall by himself or take a shower by himself without any help at all.

Hi, snow. Maybe so. In the past, we seem to grow slow because we made do of what was available to enjoy our childhood and prolonged it. We enjoyed it so much without distraction from modern technology and television. Us growing in the provinces were children even if we were already in college. I remember having to spend our long school vacations in April and May playing like the same children we were. We were carefree and had no pretenses. I personally think that with the influence of so many things, our children imitate. They imitate what they see on tv, what they read and see online and most of all, they imitate what or whom they personally interact. There is an influence from peers and other people.

Children are growing up way too fast. I mean when I was a child, I wanted to be a child and growing up just seemed like some distant thing that I may achieve someday, but right now I was going to milk this childhood thing for all its worth. Now children just are growing up too fast. Schooling is much more advanced I think from when I was younger. Children have their own cell phones in some cases. I didn't even have a computer in my room until I was a teenager and that was something that I had to beg for from my parents for a long time. These days, I would be glad to be a kid again, because at least I wouldn't have to worry about all that's going on in the world today. Children don't know how good they got it.

The world has changed drastically. Children are exposed to far more then parents realize. Values are rarely instilled in them, because more parents now a days are too concerned about keeping a roof on the house and food on the table. Children see this in those they look up too and really have no where to turn. They start to think if I do what the T.V. says then that's how life works. No one to instill in them otherwise.

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