Do you think kids are growing up too fast these days? Trying to act older than they are.?

Question

I'm pretty young myself but am noticing an increasingly astonishing amount of children trying to act way older than they actually are. Tell me what you think.

Answer 1

yes, i completely agree. i am still in middle school and i still witness kids at my school who try to act older. like girls wearing low cut shirts, short shorts, tight shirts, etc. and quite honestly i don't see why we're trying to grow up so fast, we have our whole lives ahead of us. new slang, new words. using profane language. the list continues. i find it pretty darn pathetic.

Answer 2

Kids these days are trying to act too mature for their age.  p*****n girls are starting to take birth control pills and going on fad-diets, trying to become thin.  More teenagers are drinking, smoking, and doing drugs.  It is the way society is telling them to act.  Commercials, advertisements, television, magazines, newspapers, movies, are all giving kids false images to Idolize.   Shows like "America's Next Top Model" are giving girls no older than twelve the idea that they should be skinny, and wear tons of make-up, and get surgical alterations on their bodies to fit the ideal "Woman."

Capitalism sucks.

Answer 3

I kind of agree. Kids always want to act and look older than what they actually are. They find role models and try to be like them, even if the role models are not so positive influences.

I think parents give in to their kids way too easily these days as they want to be more friends than parents. Kids (say, 10 or under) shouldn't have enough money in their pockets at any given point to go out and buy an entire face full of make-up or today's latest tween fashions. It's the parents that are buying the clothes, the make-up, the music and that movies that encourage the kids to try to grow up faster than they should.

Of course, that's just my opinion.

Answer 4

Yes I think they are acting older than what they should be.  A lot of it has to do with what is surrounding them.  The clothes at the mall for children age 9-11 are much more reveling then what they were 10 years ago.  The idols that kids age 9-11 have to look up to are acting totally stupid and getting a ton of attention for it.  

My daughter is 10 and she use to LOVE Hannah Montana.  She told me not to long ago that she really didn't like Miley anymore because she was acting older than what she was.

Answer 5

Yes u r rite ! ! !

Answer 6

Yes i do. I found out alot by working at the elementary school that my daughter goes to.It's not always the parent.I believe that  the majority of teachers are making our children grow up too fast.They don't treat them like children anymore. They expect too much out of them.They get mad when they forget things, we as adults forget.They need to teach that it is ok as long as it does not become a habit.Go back to the basics and not try to do things that we as parents never learned.Icould go on and on.Parents need to be aware of how things are run in school these days.They give way too much homework, they have no time to be kids in the afternoon. And parents why do your young children need cell phones. They don't need to be there if you do not know where they are.

Answer 7

yeah. too fast. i dont think it's really healthy. it could be annoying sometimes especially when they're trying to act older than they are. they could be trying too hard. if only they'd known the downsides of being older.... only then they'd wish they could stay kids forever.

hm...l*****g melted chocolates on your hand...

bicycle-racing with your friends untill you cut your knees...

never finished the homework and got scolded but never had to think of the bills and stuff...

oh yeah, never had to think whether he'd still like you in pyjamas..

Answer 8

They are forced into it. How many parents do you hear tell their children "grow up" and then put adult responsibilities on them.  I know several parents who make their children that aren't even old enough to go through puberty wash the dishes, do the laundry, help fix supper, take care of their younger siblings....the list goes on.  If you force children to act like little adults that is exactly what they become.

Answer 9

I agree - and I think it's sad.

Answer 10

yeah, i agree wholeheartedly. i feel like that all the time.

Answer 11

yes i agree little girls these having babies at 14 what has the world come to

Answer 12

Totally. I've seen middle-schoolers dressed like high schoolers. Honestly, it scares me.

Answer 13

Oh yeah!

Answer 14

yes, yes, i agree with you. i really find amusing and annoying at the same time when 14 years old and below are worrying too much about their crush lives and lovelives .. it's so nonsense ..

Answer 15

my little sister is 6 ******* years old.

she puts on makeup sometimes, does her hair, she's even shaved her legs before...i catch her trying on my clothes *i'm a junior in high school* and she spends HOURS in front of the mirror. i honestly cannot say she can walk in front of a mirror without stopping in front of it and staring. she listens to the same music as i do, she has an ipod shuffle and knows how to work a computer better than my mom. when she gets bored she goes to youtube....she can play guitar hero on medium....she scares the living **** out of me. i cannot believe she is my sister. she is spoiled rotten.

also the older kids...middle schoolers have started drinking around the 8th grade...not a single guy i know in 9th grade has not been drunk...they have s*x and do drugs...they are driving at night illegally....i don't know what we're going to do about all this. whats more is that their parents let them!!!

what the h**l are we supposed to do???