What's wrong with today's youth, why are they so disrespectful and obnoxious?

Question

So I'm thinking, so many teens and young adults are rude disrespectul obnoxious.

I'm sitting on the sky train and I hear a teenager swearing and yelling in the train while an elderly person is looking shocked. There are also young kids around.

They butt in line and are so loud and inconsiderate in public, no curtosy, no sense of oldfashion polietness and humbleness. I remember when I was younger, society was far more poliet and young people were poilet and respectful of themselves, elderly, and young. I'm not too sure what the reason is but I have a few ideas. I may get bombed for this but I came from an all girl school highschool and am highly feminist but there are roles which both genders must play.

- TV's, Games, Movies are their influence. Imagine having a bratty spoiled tempermental Paris Hilton as a role model, or the Joker from the new batman(don't get me wrong, I loved the Joker) as a role model. Imagine kids playing the game 'Bully' and acting on it.

- Bad schools, I hear in BC that the government is forcing teachers to pass failing kids so it won't 'damage' their confidence. Even some colleges are doing it. Which is very bad. If they have it easy until they have to have a real career or job, they will fall to pieces, that is worse for anyone's confidence then failing a course in school.

- Both parents are at work. Now don't get me wrong. I am a very strong career oriented woman but I do not have a family yet. If I did, either my husband or myself will be unemployed and stay with the child until they go off to college. I don't believe that the 'mother' has to the stay at home parent, but one of them does. Kids need guidance, supervision, censorship, discipline, rules. Many kids are aching for it. Many parents don't even know what their kids are up to. They just leave the children to play on their own. They need to have good parent role models so they learn to respect other people. If a daughter has a bad father, she will have relationship problems and develop a father complex. If a son has a bad mother figure, he will disrespect women. Call me old fashion but I believe that one parent has to stay with the child. It has been like this forever, many animals do this, even the males. The only animals that leave their children to fend for themselves are not very evolved creatures such as turtles and insects. We are not even a fraction close tho those animals.

What are your thoughts on this? Do you think youth is getting out of hand? What do you think the reason is. I wrote this question so other people anger at youth or society for making these youths can vent. I apologize if I offended people but I really do think that society is a bit messed up right now.

Answer 1

These parents (and I'm being generous) don't teach their children any manners. They give them tech toys to keep from talking to them and wa la--they look up and the kids/teens don't respect them or listen to them. They'll act on advice from a friend (text messaged of course) before they'll listen to mom or dad. These kids are raised by the media! They watch Paris Hilton, the reality shows and the only thing they aspire to be is FAMOUS! I read stupid notes from kids all the time here on Yahoo Answers about how to become a model or an actress. "My mother won't take me to an audition boo hoo..." These kids are vacuous and kinda dumb. The future of America looks bleak.

Answer 2

**More and more people prefer to be politically right & allow their family, friends, colleagues & neighbors to mind their own business, calling it giving personal space, cherishing individuality or what not.**

People need to put love, compassion & responsibility before the fear of being rebuked.

Education is school's responsibility, but character, social skills is parents. We cannot just keep on finding excuses.. TV, movies, media, whatever.. blaming somebody else, or the government to make more laws!

Bottom line, parents need to make time for their kids. Parents need to express love & respect towards each other, other siblings & other people around them. You need to lead by example!!

They need to enforce/cherish some old time values - respect for elders, bearing consequences of their actions, **stop child proofing every thing in life **; no matter how out of fashion. Let them earn their toys, tv times, game times. This should begin as soon as possible, when the kids r young. Also, don't hesitate to spank your kids, when appropriate.

Stop looking for answers outside your home. Its within the family!

Answer 3

"The children now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for

authority, they show disrespect to their elders.... They no longer

rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents,

chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their

legs, and are tyrants over their teachers." - Plato, quoting Socrates, almost 2400 years ago.

Answer 4

i thin you need to stop and realize that kids these days are MODERN. we weren't born back in the day in like the 60's! we are influenced by drug addicts,violent video games,and stuff like that. maybe some kids were brought up by swearing. others we not. not all kids are "rude,disrespectful,and obnoxious" as you put it. so think about that before you judge all the kids out there. we aren't all bratty spoiled kids. some of us were brought up to respect our elders and some of us weren't thank you very much!

Answer 5

Kids have alway been like this. Socrates made the same complaint