kids nowadays...

Pictures like that are the tip of the iceberg. Many children are growing up with lack of values and respect for anyone and anything. I blame it on the media...music, movies and video games that they are growing up with. That's my personal opinion. I suspect it will continue until these kids have children of their own and can see what it's like on the receiving end. Then, maybe the trend will bounce back to what we call normal. One can only hope.

sad to say but sometimes, tv shows or even the use internet has contributed a lot to some childs bad attittudes nowadays. even if the parents teach their kids correct values endlessly, everything will end up nothing because of this unrated shows. sad thing about it is , its the parents who'll always blame on their kids attitude

Unfortunately, this seems to be a world-wide phenomenon. Kids here in the UK are often making these sort of gestures. We used to live quite near a school and happened to be walking behind a group of kids that I say would be around 10/11 years old. There were both girls and boys speaking very loudly and every other word was a profanity. They hear it on the TV coming from adults mostly. Although bad language is kept to a minimum, after 9pm, you will hear it all. No many kids go to bed that early these days. And I have lost the number of occasions I have been cussed at when I have asked kids to stop playing around with my car when it is parked outside. They know there is nothing you can do and they just speak to you how they like. I got it used to it now, but can't help but consider that what I am hearing is our future. - Derek

That picture says so much doesn’t it? And none of it is good! It is an appalling example of the way kids are brought up these days. I know it makes me sound like an old fuddy duddy but it is shocking and I cannot imagine doing such an act when I was a kid! It shows not just rudeness and lack of respect but a frightening lack of compassion for another who is disadvantaged.

hello victory, you can only blame on thing, and that is TV and any other media regarding this behavior, i doubt the kid would do such if she really knew what the sign meant. of course, it wouldn't hurt the old lady if she doesn't know what it means, but for us who knows this well, it's really darn bad impression. am sure she got a good spanking if her parents ever saw this pic

You cannot deny the fact that the youth of today have a lot less respect for their elders than previous generations. They now think that the elderly are inferior to them, and that they have the automatic right to treat the elderly however they want, and not with the respect that they deserve

Dare I say it? it is us Yanks who have taught her this. with all the t.v. she now gets to see , she picked this up. it is a pity because of all the peoples on this planet I assumed that Asians were the most respectful when it came to their elders. On average they aren't shipped to nursing homes. They are Part of the family. This is sad. I'm so sorry. The world is getting smaller but sometimes this isn't a good thing.

Well, everything is possible now.. It's not as surprising, due to the internet, and peer pressure.. haha =D Kids nowadays are growing up fast, and before one knows it, they have already been influenced with all the bad stuffs.. haha =D BUt yet at their young tender age, we cant tell them to choose their friends properly, as it will mean losing their frenz in school.. Will they want that?? I dun think so.. So instead of becoming a loner, they will wanna hang out with them more, as it's fun!! haha =D We cant stop them from making frenz, but we can only tell them what's right and wrong..

I shudder to think about the future of our world when you think about the kids today and how they're attitudes are, and the things they do, they're so disrespectful of everything and everybody. There's no telling where the girl learned that, just look at the stuff they show on tv these days.

Whenever I see that rare occasion, it still makes my eyebrows raise, but Im really not that surprised. That's because when I was about 10, the house next to ours was an apartment complex so there were a lot of families and kids there. I would hear the youngest child in the complex cussing at the top of his lungs in the street. Some older kids were teasing him and took his slippers, so in frustration, he just screamed blasphemies at the top of his lungs for all the neighborhood to hear. He was just 4 years old at that time. There's also this one incident that a friend's niece dirty fingered a passerby on a whim. I was surprised by that because the little girl is only 3 years old. I saw the finger, covered it, and told her to stop. I was going to scold her but I have no right because she was not my relative. I just told my friend about it (who didnt see the incident) and she gave a comment that gave me the impression, that was not the first time the little girl did that. Again Im not really surprised because the environment that these kids grew up or are growing up in is dysfunctional. I mean I would often hear our then neighbors cussing haphazardly. The friend's family are also "potty mouths" that the kids are growing to get accustomed to that kind of language thinking it was alright. I do sometimes keep my friend in check when she's cussing outrageously but that's all that I can do. It would be up to her on how she will take my advice. Society is gradually deteriorating. Human life is a cycle after all. Sooner or later there will be the Dark Ages again. Maybe not exactly how it was implemented but the concept of it is the same. It's the tipping point. Like a movie quote said, it's at the tipping point that people do change.

Nicholas Cage made a movie called "Lord Of War" which shows some of what you are talking about and also the last Rambo movie showed the children soldiers. Our news programs on television and cable often show this type of thing but because it happens in other countries then it is sometimes looked over by more local news or some of it could even be audited by the government. What a lot of people fail to realize is that other countries are at war and have been at war for years. Children are born into it and raised into adulthood without knowing anything else. A lot of these countries need soldiers so they train special units of children usually around the starting age of twelve or thirteen but sometimes younger. The saying is that "A bullet from a fourteen year old is just as deadly as one from a forty five year old".

no offense to anybody but i always come up with one thing in mind with everything that's happening in the world today: overpopulation. couples produce more than what they could financially and emotionally support. thus, with everything kids watch nowadays on tv there is no adult present to explain pg shows because both mom and dad are tired from work. teachers in school are burdened with too much work due to a lot of students or a lot of children of their own that drains their energy when they get back home that they lack the presence of mind to even have the insight to go a little bit way beyond their lesson plans and do some of the work parents should do. again, peace .

our society has done this. No respect for anyone,not even an elderly old lady. She learned it from her peers and even maybe from her parents if she has any. I hope we teach our kids differently.

Hi Victory, That is unacceptable. No way for a kid to do that and even for an adult to be like that it's really BAD. This can be a result of over exposure to media and lesser supervision and guidance from parents. i hope we parents will exert extra effort to guide our kids to become a good person...citizen.

Disrespect from bratty kids to their elders is as old as human society, hence the biblical "spare the rod, spoil the child". * What is new is how much is seen. Images and news stories of disrespectful, bratty, and spoiled kids can be all over this big blue marble faster than that biblical phrase can be uttered thanks to the world wide web. * In the past, your disrespectful, urinating-in-public bratty yob of the UK would not be read about by folks in the USA in the Daily Mail. The tweenie Gangster wannabe would not be posting nasty YouTube videos rapping four letter words while grabbing his privates. Both of these ahems would be strictly local headaches. * The world wide web is a giant eye to the world, for both good, aka adorable cute kittens, and for bad, fowl mouthed celeb wannabes.

After taking a good look at the pic, I'm not sure that I would be so judgmental about the girl.A picture says a thousand words, it's true and some people see one or two hundred out of the thousand. If you look, the other girl has her hand wrapped around the girls shoulder and it's one of those things you do with someone when they're upset and you're telling them to "come one, forget about it" I would like to know before I made any kind of comment what exactly was going on. The old woman looks like she is talking and we don't really know what she is saying, the little girls mouth doesn't look like she is speaking at all. How do we know that the old lady isn't saying something mean or nasty to her, like maybe she's telling her how selfish she is or she could give her lunch money. It could possibly be the same thing that a bully does to collect lunch money.I don't think the little girl is flipping the old lady off just because she is sitting there, begging.

Oh no! I guess this is happening around the globe. Im in USA i see things like that here too. One day while on a shuttle bus downtown, a couple in their 80's gets on and nobody gets up to offer a seat. Finally some young tourist from a asian country give up their seat for them. I felt bad that somebody from my own country could not give up a seat to very elderly people. But i have noticed that these courtesy are usually done by youths from other countries and not the US. I thought it was only happening here. I have pondered so much as to why this is happening and i can only guess its in a bad upbringing. They were not taught correctly. I dont know.

LOL...No one teaching her that way but by learning herself. The world had changed and never like before, kids learn things very fast through their observation.

i believe most of us must will feel angry. the kid has such a bad manner, first it's his parents fault, i think. maybe she learned from her parents, or some of her friends...

I will hate to say it though Kids learn by what they see... this may be at home or school.... if it is condoned at one of these two places and acted upon if it happens there than this is what you got.....