Do you think teenagers today have it 'too easy'?

I do think that kids have it too easy today. I never had it rough, don'tget me wrong. Kids don't have the responsibility that most of us had. A lot of us would come home to an empty house after school and we knew what to do and what needed to be done by the time mom or dad were home. I bet most kids either don't know what to do if they come home alone or they plop in front of the tv and do nothing. I think more parents need to enforce more responsibilities on these kids. They are going to grow up and find themselves with a huge reality check.

I don't think teenagers have it too easy.It's often said that teenagers have never had it so good. But, if that's the case, why are doctors seeing more and more young people with depression and anxiety-related problems?

Yes I think teenagers have it a bit too easy nowadays. A lot of them are very cossetted from the real world and I agree that they won't be fully equipped for what's out there. I had to do chores and work for stuff I wanted when I was a teenager. Too many of them nowadays seem to spend their lives in front of a pc. There again having said all that I guess the older generation always think that young people have it too easy don't they? I remember older people saying that to me when I was a teenager as well!

I like some teens have it easy, but a lot of them do community servivce (which is very important and teaches responsibility) and have after school jobs at McDonald's and the like.

I agree with you,but I don't think that all kids are this way. My oldest daughter is 16 and has a part time job (where she normally works about 28 hours a week), plus she takes care of her younger sister when we are both at work, and she has chores to do everyday. She has worked for 2 years aand I have had people say "Why do you make her work?" Well, my respondse is that it was her choice to go to work and now that she is driving, she has her own set of bills. She has bought 5 cars on her own and I am quite proud of her. Plus she pays for her insurance,cell phone, and she pays for groceries once per month at least and she usually helps with one or two bills per month. She doesn't waste her money and she is a very responsible teen. I know some of her friends do not do anything when they get home from school and that is sad that the parents haven't taught them any responsibility as these kids will be adults and will not understand how they need to work and stuff.

I'm not sure if they have it "easier" I think its because teenagers now are in a whole new generation. They live in a different style and things change in their life time. It probably appears this way because we had it harder when we were younger. When I was younger I was also responsible for things like laundry and food, and walk the dog and things like that. Pretty much all kids hate to do chores and work around the house, but when it has to be done, then they'll do it.

I think they do too because I think parents are more relax now than they used to be then. But, hopefully they will all see the result and something will be done eventually.

I don't know. From what my sister tells me, her kids have a lot more homework than she and I ever had. My 15 year old niece carries around a backpack full of books that literally weighs 20 lbs. She and her brother do the same kind of chores my sister and I had when we were kids. i don't know too many other teens than my niece and nephew, though.

For sure, and they expect everything to be given to them on a silver platter, like they think that the world owes them something.

hello hazy ,yes i sure do...all they do is play games,use the computer,they have no errands to do and all the time they get an allowance..They are growing lazier and it is mostly the fault of the parents.When I was a teen i had chores to do,and my allowance was given to me for doing something constructive.i made my bed,picked up my cloths,and helped my Mom.I think kids were raised better then more than now...Most teens think someones owes them something...We are raising a very lazy generation.

yes i do think this and it worries me my grandkids are so spiled i just wonder how they are going to be able to make it in the real world where nothing is going to just be handed to them they will have to work for anything they want i dont think they will be able to handle life as it realy is !

Well now you know this, If one day you become a parent you should teach your kids some responsibilities and balance it with them having a good time on their own. Don't let your kids lack of having fun but also they can also be responsible for what they did.

yes.. i do agree that teenagers today have it too easy.. this is because they are being pampered too much by their parents isn't it? a friend of mine say he would prefer to enjoy life than to worry what's going to happen in the future.. yes.. i do agree that we're student.. and we're currently studying in college.. but.. i disagree with his attitude.. i think we should be preparing ourself no matter what.. we're going to be adult soon.. and we should have prepare ourself for the future.. not just taking things easily.. money don't come to you easily.. if you don't work for it.. you'll suffer in the end.. isn't it true? :)

Everybody likes to have that perfect life all the time ...... but all this seems so impossible ..just take a look at those responsibilities that come across to us ...and all that we do is start yanking our way out telling what is this all for ...but the best part about this life is that being imperfect in this world is the Perfect thing that can happen .... hadn't we had all that responsibilities we wouldn't have been such a responsible human

living the teenage life is so easy if you only depend on your parents alone which i kinda experience. although i take it easy i am responsible about my actions as i decided it and im the one who has to blame about it. i have a niece and it seems that the world is as easy as one, two, three sometimes because she doesn't help her mother doing the chores.

I think every generation asks that of the children and teens that come behind them. The answer for the past couple generations has been yes. I'm 26, but this is a fact evident for everyone to see. I think half the blame lies in the parents not disciplining them and providing structure, while the other half lies with the kids for not taking responsibility and being grateful. Today, a lot of kids are products of one parent homes or divorced families, and that is hard for a parent to make up to a child.

they have it to easy, well most of them. but in the other way, they dont have it easy, because nothing is safe anymore, they cant go out of the house in recent cities of places, without fearing for anything, they arent allowed playng soccer at some places or something else. nearly all what we where able to do is forbidden for them. most of the teenagers here dont even know from where the milk comes (its only an example). i had nearly no childhood, had to help and work all my life, but if i could choose, i wouldnt choose the todays teenager life.

In some respects they have it easier. They have better technology than we did and I think that this may make them lazier because they don't have to work as hard to find answers. On the other hand, they have to deal with more stressful things than we did. School is much harder now and their requirements to graduate high school are much more strenuous. They do tend to be more immature overall in some ways though.

Yeah some of them do it seems that the parents have taken the place of being the child and back when I was growing up a child was a child and they knew who was in charge and if you didn't you would soon find out. We had to work for what we wanted and we were taught to be responsible now days kids just sit back and rely on their parents for everything. Children are becoming more and more dependent on their parents.

Well I dont know if teenagers have it exactly easier nowa days but I do say they have it easier then I did growing up. For one a slap in the back of the head or a*s was'nt called child abuse back then and when we messed up we knew we get that slap and that would be enough to behave but nowa dyas parents are lucky if they can control or even know what their children are doing all the time. Also what about the schooling system, I think its gotten way easier for kids to graduate then it ever was when I was younger. Now I just turned 30 so Im not all that old but I have noticed these changes and many others since I have been getting older.