What is wrong with teens today?

Yes there are no role models now. And they don't look up to parents cause parents are stupid.

Only god knows where we will end up in the future but I dont think its good where we are heading.

Yes it is the lack of parenting which happening to our teenagers,and also they are taught in school and their environment that they have to saw and hear because if we say or do anything to them they can run away. So it makes it almost impossible feel that that is just the way of the times. I was never like that, I never really went with the flow like all the others. However, things that you did when you were a kid seemed aweful and terrible to your parents,is not it?, and they were wondering the same thing. And of course the stuff that the kids are doing today seems 10 times worse to your parents than it does to you now .

When you say teen do you, mean teens as a whole. The way its written it looks like labelling and Stereotypical when you say TeenS, but not all of us are like it, iI certainly don't put a knife between my teeth. I do agree to some extent as I know that some are like that.

i think that for a lot (not everybody), there is a lack of a father figure in the household. I think a father figure provides more discipline, or at least the threat of more discipline than just a mother can. It's kind of crazy what happens out there when teens roam wild. It's probably all the hormones.

I'm not very old either, at 18 I can't say I have too much life experience. :) Personally, I think that some people don't have anything better to do... thus the picture you showed us. :)) Everybody is free to do whatever they want, in the limits of morality. If that guy thought that it was smart to pose like that, well who can stop him? It's just a matter of how we each look at things and what oppinions we develop about them. To some that picture will seem like something outrageous, some might think it's ugly, nice, stupid or funny. Some will totally disaprove while others will praise it for it's umatchable artistic and humoristic spirit. Me? Well... I'm just happy it's not my face in that picture. :))

I worry about this too. It seems the media helps kids grow up far too quickly these days. A lot of teenagers have things come to easily to them, or grow up with a welfare attitude that the world owes them something, they have little respect. Boys want to be rough, girls want to be wafer thin!

we are heading to the new generation that has no bounders , i think :p

instead of asking this, u could have asked like " what is not wrong with teens " because u know like student life is golden life but many of them are just spoiling their future life...... when every thing is fulfilled by their parents like pocket money, bike, freedom throughout the day, teens lose the responsibility at that time . I think i have discussed about this atlest acceptable. Really a good discussion bye take care

I feel that that is just the way of the times. I was never like that, yet again, I never really went with the flow like all the others. I liked to use my head. :P However, things that you did when you were a kid seemed aweful and terrible to your parents, and they were wondering the same thing. And of course the stuff that the kids are doing today seems 10 times worse to your parents than it does to you. Times change, and there's not too much you can do about it except for raise your kids right and hope they grow out of silly phases.

I believe that this is a negative effect of how our children tend to express their emotions and frustrations. Unfortunately and regretfully, there are parents who are very much pre-occupied with their jobs to pursue professional fulfillments . Thus, children grew up without righteous role-models that will guide them into the value system we want for them. The fragile minds of youth can't distinguish the merit of the values and beliefs presented to them, and they will tend to adopt whatever they are exposed to. We need to influence our children as much as possible as early as possible, because once they become teenagers their peers exert more influence on them. If we end up with regrets over the time we didn't give our children, it's a pain that never goes away!!!

well kids now are you much more diffrent than before.

Every generation says the same thing about the next generation. That's where the "kids these days ain't got no respect" thing comes from. But yeah, who knows where that knife has been? He needs a patch over his eye and a parrot on his shoulder.

imo,teens today have a lot role models.so,they absorb characteristics from all of them and try to combine them in a personality of their own.they try to crate their own style.parents nowadays seem to discourage them of being whatever they want,so teens feel free to do whatever they like.

It's the lack of parenting that is happening to our teenagers. Also they are taught in school that they do not have to listen because if we say or do anything to them they can run to the police. So it makes it almost impossible to instill morals on the kids that are acting out.

I think I understand the point you are trying to make. Teens today, and society in general is so caught up in Hollywood, and being "somebody" or being popular, or glamorous that they are not even living their lives. Their lives consist of party after party and who wrote what on their Myspace account. It's silly and superficial and It's disturbing to me, as I wonder when will they grow up and start thinking seriously about their futures. I was a pretty well-rounded kid growing up, I didn't have the support I needed in school and i feel had my parents been there and been more proactive I could have done MUCH better in school (I did fine... I had B's I think), I never got caught up in popularity contests or really cared much about social parties or things like that, I just wasn't disciplined enough to push myself w/out any external force (my parents) to push me. I also agree that teenage girls dress inappropriately (well, even preteens nowadays). I think it's dangerous to allow your 14 year old to go out with her belly exposed and shorts cut so short she can't bend over. Parents do this, and then the child ends up raped, or pregnant or worse. Yes, those things happen to girls dressed appropriately as well, But I wouldn't take the chance and there is no reason for a 14 year old to be dressed sexy.

It's just a picture. What's wrong with it? I'm sure there are plenty of things that were done similar to this around your time you just don't have a picture of it. We are headed up as far as I can tell. We are getting more and more advanced and I think it will just go up now considering us teens are the first to grow up with internet, cell phones, video games, digital cameras, and all the other high tech stuff.

There are way more things going on nowadays to worry about a picture!

while i see your point with the whole no role model thing... i dont understand why that picture is bad at all... i really doubt he walks around like that all the time or anything, just posing for a picture

I don't really understand the big deal about the picture but even though i am 16 i think that there isnt many role models in our time. So many kids at my school talk all the time about how they got "high" or "wasted" and i think its stupid.