What is wrong with this generation of kids?
@MrZ0mbiesFanatic (168)
Shreveport, Louisiana
September 19, 2015 5:46pm CST
When I was growing up, and I did something bad I would always get the belt and get grounded depending on the severity of it.
Now a days, I see kids controlling their parents, back talking their parents, telling them what to do, etc. It is horrible. And do the parents seem to care? NO! They let their kids do whatever they want without a care in the world. I don't know what is wrong with this generation but it is definitely considerably worse than when I was growing up.
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@GreatMartin (23672)
• Ft. Lauderdale, Florida
20 Sep 15
That's what we old folks said about your generation!
And their generation will say the same about the ones that follow them! baby boomers were the worst just as generation X and Y are the worst BUT somehow most grow up, get married, have jobs, kids, buy a home, pay taxes--and some even become politicians! 
And their generation will say the same about the ones that follow them! baby boomers were the worst just as generation X and Y are the worst BUT somehow most grow up, get married, have jobs, kids, buy a home, pay taxes--and some even become politicians! 2 people like this
@MrZ0mbiesFanatic (168)
• Shreveport, Louisiana
20 Sep 15
Luckily I was raised in a good home, so I never got in trouble as a kid, but yes I do remember as kids, some of us were always getting into trouble, although it isn't nearly as bad as it is now.
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@TexanTornado (5573)
• United States
20 Sep 15
It has a lot to do with the laws now a days. Before it was ok to be whacked with a belt, or in my case growing up, we were told to go break a branch off the willow tree and was swatted with it. You can't do that now, it's a shout of abuse and kids know it and use it.
It's time outs now. Which in my opinion is a waste. If the kid doesn't want to stay in time out they won't. All you can do then is scream, holler, 'ground them' (which might or might not work), or simply say, 'forget it'.
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@Rollo1 (16679)
• Boston, Massachusetts
20 Sep 15
It's more than indulgent parenting. You cannot discipline kids these days unless you want to go to jail. Swat your kid's behind in Walmart, and someone will be on the phone to the police. The schools start teaching them from a young age that discipline is abuse and encourage them to tattle on parents. I am not one who would every advocate anyone hurting a child, but we got a few spankings in my day and it made better people of us. It's very hard to raise kids, the society and the kids hold the parents hostage.
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@rosekiss (30414)
• Eugene, Oregon
20 Sep 15
Kids nowadays act out, because I don't think they have got the attention they thought they had. They figure if they are bad, then they will get it, which is negative attention. If parents would have givent their kids attention when they were little, they would have never acted out. They should have taken time to play with them and when they did something good, to praise them for it.
@iamshane487 (1139)
• Manila, Philippines
22 Sep 15
The human attributes are changed thoroughly as time goes by from generation to generation. Although the response of animals, they are changing too.
@TGRWorzel (47)
• United Kingdom
20 Sep 15
My observation is that standards slip a little with every generation that passes, as parents have the attitude that "I didn't like that when I was a kid so am not going to do it with mine"...
