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| What do you think? Are children today more disrespectful than when you were growing up? I am 31 and I would say certainly. Today I pulled over when I saw a group of maybe 8 year old boys throwing their empty soda cups into the street. I made them pick them up but as I drove away, they threw them back into the street and ran off laughing. When I was a kid, we would’ve never thought of tossing trash in the street but had we and an adult made us pick it up….we’d have been so terrified at being caught! I’m not saying all kids are disrespectful but I think there is certainly a lot more disrespectful kids today than when I was growing up in the 1990’s.
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| I agree with you 100%! Kids and teens are disrespectful to adults and old folks too. I believed that when kids acted that way at home, it is the parents who had not stopped them from doing so. Hence, it has became a trend for the kids to behave badly both at home, in school and in public places. Discarding trash on the road while travelling, spitting on the road or pavement, sticking chewing gum on seats, talking back to teachers, parents and grandparents, etc. If parents do not stop them, who will then? Teachers job to teach kids about morals and mannerism ends in school. Too much pampering and close one eye behavior should be stopped at home. Disrespectful kids should be corrected at young age. Otherwise,it would be no turning back for them to change for better when they are grown up. They become the garbage of the society.
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| If a certain child is rude and disrespectful, there is something wrong with his upbringing. Those things can be corrected at home first. The parents are the first one that could notice this one. How can a child able to learn how to be rude if she or she will not see it inside their house or around her environment? If a parent observed this happening to their child, I guess they need to make it right and solve it right away. They need to explain their child that it is not good for a child to be rude as a child being like that reflect what is happening at home. Even though sometimes, the parents are not the culprit of the child’s behavior, it could ruin their reputation and their whole family as well. People will get an impression that they are not taking care of their children because they are becoming rude. You know people, a lot of them are judgemental, when there is no perfect at all. | |
 Anonymous Topics: 74 Replies: 1212 Rank: Newbie | @ Lola I agree with you. Children today are certainly more disrespectful. It’s not the children who are to be blamed though but the media. The media and television shows being rude as being cool. Being rude is considered to be macho. Children are quite impressionable. They pick up what they see being portrayed on media. |
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yes, parents are the first people who knew of the child’s disrespectful manners and behavior. If one did not stop him, he will think that his behavior was right when the truth is otherwise. Yup, the family’s reputation had gone down to the mud. Outsiders and relatives would definitely blame on the parents for the child’s disrespectful behavior. However, some parents that I knew, just close one eye , pretend that it didn’t happened.
of course media is one of the reason behind it too. Adults behavior towards elderly which is wrong, should not be practice in front of the kids either. If the adults do not change their disrespectful behavior, neither would the kids | |
| I am not sure if the kids nowadays are more disrespectful, or it’s just been the same, it’s just that we didn’t meet those disrespectful kids when we were young. I heard from some of my friends, they were really naughty and going “not right” things when they were young. From what they told me, I am glad they have changed now and became good people, otherwise I do not think I would befriend them. I am not sure about other countries, but in my country, it seems like our elder generations are busy making money to support the family, so the parents might not have much time to take care or guide the children, or some parents might not know how to teach the children too. Some children are good, but some become quite bad, sometimes it also depends on what kind of friends they have. I agree nowadays, some kids are disrespectful, perhaps the parents think it’s fine, because most parents go to work and do not have much time to take care of the children as well, so they just let them be. @lolaze The incident you mentioned to throw the empty soda cans to the street, one of my friends did that when he was young, and he even put firecrackers inside! That’s so dangerous! | |
| The throwing soda cups in the street, I could see kids in any generation doing it, it was the throwing them back in the street after I had them pick them up that made me so mad. Wow, the firecrackers in soda cans was very dangerous!!! | |
| @lolaze I just think perhaps we are very lucky to have good friends, and have not meet such disrespectful kids when we were young. The same friend I mentioned did something really badly to dogs as well. Even they were told by the adults not to do such things, they still did. When he told me about those incidents, he knew it’s not good, but he thinks it’s fun to do when they were kids. I just don’t understand it at all. He was actually my ex-boss! | |
| This is what I have realized. Kids born in the earlier years were brought up differently to the point that there is almost like an authoritarian environment in their homes. Children fear tbeir parents more. Parents are too busy with their work and instil stric implementation of house rules. The result- children are aloof with their parents and are terrified to make mistakes. When thosr children became parents, they probably wanted a slight change in their homes and on how to treat theit children. They are more loving to their children in a way that they wanted to be really part of their children’s “world”. It is like the parents being buddies with their children. This has advantage because children learn to open up more. The only thing is, when parents become too good, there are kids that abuse them and so some children toughen up by doing whatevet they want because they know that no matter what they do, their parents wikl love them just the same. | |
| I think that you have to blame the parents in most cases since discipline starts at home. If they are not disciplined at home then they are not being taught respect towards others and especially their elders. I would never have thought to do something like that because I would have gotten my butt beat if my parents would have found out. I think that the parents are just too busy with work or whatever. They want some time away from the noise of the kids so they send them outside or to their friends’ home where there is probably not any adult supervision there either. Kids will get into trouble and do stupid things but I think it makes a difference if there are consequences involved for their bad choices. This will teach them to be more responsible and respectful. | |
| To be blunt, I have to agree with you! The majority of kids today don’t even know what respect means and they simply don’t care either. When my son brought home his friends, I will chew him later if they don’t bother to even say hello to me. That is very disrespectful in my book and it is not accepted to me. I am making sure my son doesn’t behave this way to an adult, and he needs to follow house rules no matter where he is. I want him to have good manner. Not only the children have no concept of respect, I have personally experienced this sort of behavior from adults, men to be specific! So many times I hold the door for my mom, an elderly woman of 89, at the store, only to have men rushing through it without even a word of thanks. This also happened when my son opened the door waiting for me to pass by. There were some women as well, but the number was higher in men. | |
| I would rather delve into the important influencing factors that have made or deposed the children of their disrespectful trait. The first is their family. The way their parents treated them could mold them on their rearing up. The second is the community where they live. Their fellow children whom they play and mingle with everyday could contribute to their character and their behavior. The language they use and the manner they treat each other. And the third one is the school where they are taught the good manners and right conduct. In short, the disrespectful attitude of the kids is developed by various factors. Today’s children are mostly disrespectful. They lack manners so to speak. | |
| I to think that kids now a days are more disrespectful to adults. All the adolescents want to do is be on their phone, video games and just do what they want to do. They do not really listen to adults except when they want something or the adult just lets them do what they want. I was a latchkey child of the late seventies and early eighties, who did the household chores when I got home from school plus did my homework that kids today seem not to have it seems. I also had a part time job cutting yards from early Spring to late November for I also raked leaves and weeding. I could ask by great nieces and nephews to help me with some stuff that needs to be done but they are so ‘busy’ you know that they just ignore what I say. They ask why should I do that. I guess just the differences between the generations. | |
| I think individual kids are probably no less respectful than we were in the 70s. But I do believe that the group mentality is stronger, and groups are more daring about what they do. Also less respectful both of property or their elders, but also just of life and living things in general. | |
| It depends. By this I mean it depends on their parents and how they are raised. We have our 6 and 10 year old grandchildren with us, and I am surprised at how mannerly they are. Of course they have their sibling rivalry, but for the most part very much behaved. I also think that some of the older generation can be rude and disrespectful as well. I don’t think it’s just the younger generation. |
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