Sunday, January 17, 2010

Why is it that teenagers are so disrespectful?

I have seen so many teenagers who show no respect to their parents or the older generation. This has degenerated for the past fifty years. I would like to hear from both sides to see what the view point is. Hopefully, there will be serious answers.Why is it that teenagers are so disrespectful?
im a teenager, and i'm not disrespectuful. i love my new freedom and different lifestyle, but i still believe it is extremely important to respect and talk to ur parents and the elderly. when u think about it, if it weren't for our paremts, we wouldn't be here, and as for the elderly, they are the backbone of this country. im not a little sermonizer or anything, but i do agree with u, and especially as a teenager, i do not understand y they are so disrespectful. i think right now they take life for granted.





also, we have to understand that there is a lot of crap that teens go thru, especially now. this can cause them to attack anyone, because they feel accused, confused, lonely, etc.Why is it that teenagers are so disrespectful?
Teenagers of today think they know it all.(not true) They try to be grown up hence the attitude.
Who's to blame??


Parents themselves, and you can also point a finger at


paranoid government officials, and our society in general.


Many laws and rulings were made over the past 20 years,


basically taking away the rights of parents to 'discipline' their own kids. (we're talking discipline here, not abuse).


Abusive parents should always be punished by law, but things got


'way out' of hand when someone saw you 'spank' your child.


Reports of abuse ran rampant, so now, to this day, not even teachers are allowed to 'swat' a kid. 'What a shame'!!


So who to blame? I blame a 'sick' generation of immature, ignorant people (including gov officials) who lack the common sense and the knowledge of whats 'truly' right or wrong.


So now our kids have 'no' respect for anyone, our grandkids are even worse, and the next generation will probably be our UN-doing. (our ruin) And this is EVERYWHERE!


Very sad, but true!!


Just look at the past few years, and you'll see it will take a


'miracle' for things to improve. It's just getting worse..
There is a time as a teenager when every adult seems like they know nothing and the teenager knows it all. For most teens it is simply a phase. A psych. professor discussed this at a lecture I attended a few years ago. Hopefully their parents continue to teach them how to treat older people even if it seems impossible. I know when I was a teen I thought my parents and every other adult was a complete idiot. With age I have learned that they were smarter than I thought.
one of the reasons is they are not taught morals or anything of the sort like manners ect because unlike past generations both parents most likely have to work to make ends meet so there is no time for the kids and the television does the teaching, that is why you see drug dealers and celebrities worshiped so much it is all they know, they do not know what it is like to suffer for things for they get most all they want, they are not able to be disciplined without calling in social services if you so much as touch it is not wonder they have gone down.
My belief is that few teenagers are respectful to anyone(including their own friends) because as little children they were never given the guidelines on how to be respectful and when they were disrespectful they were never corrected and told how to be respectful.





So many parents believe they should let their children express themselves and do as they want. Parents should remember that children are born knowing nothing. They need to learn to do things from their parents and be firmly corrected when they go wrong. If this is started when they are young and continued(through the teen years) the children will grow up to always be respectful.





My husband and I have two adult sons of our own and are always asked how we got our sons to be so respectful even now that they are out and living their own lives. We are proud of them!
Not all are disrespectful, I come in contact with many who are very nice and respectful. I think the ones who are a problem are usually the ones who are ignored at home and not shown how to be a respectful human being. Its sad-I really hope some take the time to teach their children
My view is its in the way they were raised. The teenagers that are disrespectful, are the ones whose parents think they are gods gifts to humans. The only thing they teach them is how to be spoiled brats. They dont take the time to teach them respect, courtesy or anything else. A lot of teenagers also learn by emulating their parents. They get the holier than thou attitude from them. So they do as they see.
Because the parents don't teach them to be respectful and they are shown the way to be respectful because they don't know how to be respectful towards other's.
because when we hit a certain age we gain more freedom and more responsibility but other adults dont treat us like equals and still act like we are children and have no idea what we want or have any opinions about the world and that results in a butting of heads and generally into disrespect. (from a 16 year old)

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