Blog 8 - Wednesday, October 8, 2014
Many adults would probably feel that the youth of today are not very well disciplined. They would state that they talk back, are more aggressive and in general lack much maturity.Do you think the youth of today are well-disciplined? Explain.
I think that statement is true because kids and teenagers aren't that disciplined like they used to be. My mom told me some of the stories that happened to her when she was my age and she tells me that her father or my grandfather would “ take off his belt “. Today my grandfather only threatens us as a joke if we aren't listening to him and we laugh afterwards because my cousins and I both know that he wouldn't do those things today. Back in the day my mom never would have laughed because she knew that he was totally serious. I think one thing that plays a big role in how teenagers and kids act today is all the social media and devices that exist. I think that teenagers don't need to be disciplined as much because they are never doing any of the stupid things the older generations did because they are always on social media. Ding Dong ditch is an example of what the older generations invented. There isn't anything like that today because today's generation didn't make any of those pranks.
ReplyDeleteI think your perspective on social media is a very interesting one and is definitely the main difference between today's youth and previous ones. It's absolutely true that social media plays a large role with today's youth and the levels of maturity and discipline are very much impacted by it.
DeleteI agree completely, you said at the beginning that the punishments today are a lot different than with our parents. I think this has a big impact, as well as the fact that social media definitely wasn't as prominent in the past generation.
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DeleteI agree I think that some punishments these days are not strict enough. I think that the social media has a lot to do with the children's behavior.
DeleteToday’s society is a rapidly changing one, and with it comes along new generations, each one different from the last. Every generation likes to think that the one following them is worse and try to pick out flaws. While I do agree that every generation is going to think that theirs is better than the younger one, I don’t feel as though in particular youth are any better or worse than they have always been. As you age, you gain maturity, and it’s difficult to imagine yourself less mature than you are today, so some automatically assume that the youth of today is less mature than the youth of their time. It has always been this way and most likely will remain this way throughout generations and generations to come, and therefore I believe that while the youth of today may not be the most disciplined, they are no different from previous generations.
ReplyDeleteI completely agree. I have always thought that the immediate grade under our was so immature but we were the same way at their age. You are right, once you grow up and mature then it is hard to imagine anyone else being different.
DeleteI don't think that the youth of any day was disciplined. I think that being immature and doing stupid things is all part of being young. Making mistakes and finding your way is how you grow up. I think that back in the day the punishments were worse than they are today but they were created for a reason, to discipline and punish the youth. This generation and the future ones have the ability with social media to be very mean and cruel anonymously, if that ever gets out of hand or if being mean becomes "part of growing up", then I think that the youth will not be disciplined enough. It is one thing to make a mistake and grow from it but it is another to do something mean on purpose. Overall, I think that it is important to be silly and let loose when you are young and if that makes you not disciplined enough then so be it, everyone is!
ReplyDeleteI agree. Everyone has the right to be stupid sometimes, but they have to be disciplined properly.
DeleteI agree with you, and our parents might say that they were never like us but we all know the truth. They matured over their years and we will too.
DeleteI believe that this statement is pretty well true because sometimes, I am exactly like that. I see it in school everyday and I think it's just who we are, and I'm pretty sure our parents were exactly like us when they were young. For example, my dad use to be a very un-disciplined child as my grandmother told me and he always use to get bad grades in school even if he was lectured about it from his parents. He use to get in trouble from the teachers and not care about it. But in the end, he became a very successful business man. Our generation may seem very immature and aggressive but when we grow older, we will hopefully mature and become real adults just like our parents.
ReplyDeleteI agree with the point that you made that our parents were exactly like us. Same goes for me! My dad was kicked out of kindergarten on the first! day. Yet he get mad at me for a bad mark! But as you said, hopefully one day we will grow up like our parents. However right now I love being a kid!
DeleteI definetly agree with the statement that kids aren't as disciplined as they used to be. My parents used to always tell me and my siblings that "if I ever talked to my parents like that I'd be grounded for a month". They also tell us that they was too scared to talk back to her parents because how much they would discipline them if they did. Kids nowadays, including myself, will say anything we want without a care in the world. We aren't afraid of our parents slapping belts on our hands or if we get sent to our room because every single kid I know has a computer, a phone or at least an iPod in their room so they are more than happy to go up. Also, schools were so strict about talking, eating and even chewing gum in class. Now, in the year 2014, school discipline has changed. Chewing gum in class is the most common thing in high school. Eating in school, big deal teachers don't mind. Talking in class, doesn't matter all that much, teachers will just give you a warning. Things have changed over time and not always for the better.
ReplyDeletei think you are right that we are raised a lot easier then our parents were raised. But in the end we all mature the same it only seems different because social media and because of how many years have past. But I bet when we have kids we will be telling them how hard it was on us and how easy they have it.
DeleteI personally think that the youth of today are not well disciplined. When a child is being 'bad', the most some parents would do, is tell them to stop. They wouldn't have a punishment/consequence to make the child understand that what they did was wrong. My parents told me stories about when they were younger, how they would be punished for doing something bad. Some of the ways that my parents, or kids from their time would be punished, I do not agree with. But hey! they learned didn't they? and they also made sure that they would never repeat that same action, or whatever they did that was wrong again. Parents should have a better way of disciplining their kids today.
ReplyDeleteI completely agree with you! My parents are always telling me stories about the discipline they got when they were younger and it isn't even comparable to what discipline we have nowadays.
DeleteIn my opinion the youth have always been immature and undisciplined. But isn’t that part of growing up? By learning from our mistake? I think that sooner or latter everyone grows up it just depends on who you are and how you were raised. The reason adults think that we are less disciplined is because we are raised a lot differently then there generation has. Because of technology it may seem like we are less disciplined considering how much time we spend watching TV and going online but when our parents and grandparents grew up they probably had something replacing our TV, video games and computers that made them seem less disciplined for their parents.
ReplyDeleteI don't agree that youth has always been immature but I understand what you're saying. Everyone is raised differently and therefore are going to have different times when they're going to mature.
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DeleteI agree with the statement that most adults find that kids are less disciplined these days. There is tons of evidence proving this point. Just ask your parents about, “how it was back in the day”. I know my dad tells me that I have it easy and if he would act like that to his parents the consequences would have been sever. However, there are two sides to every argument. True enough, that we as generation have more laws protecting us and much more freedom than our parents did but it all depends on the individual. For some kids all of these liberties and opportunities have given them the chance to prove that they are even more disciplined that there parents. With more freedom definitely comes more responsibilities and some children and teens handle this remarkably well. Some Kids these days grow up really fast and are even more disciplined than their parents were in their day. But than again, to our grandparents, our parents generation must have seemed less disciplined. The same goes for our children. With every generation the norms change and evolve and there are more responsibilities and opportunities presented to the youth. Even so, some kids these days are just plain rude!
ReplyDeleteJaime I completely agree with you! We have to think about how our parents were treated and then how we're treated. There really are two sides to the argument and I don't think parents should be the only ones asked this question.
DeleteI do agree with the statement of "the youth is not very well disciplined", but what I do not agree with is who's saying it. You said the adults say this, but aren't the adults parents? Who may or may not have children? These people who do have children and are saying this, do they know that their children probably "talk back, are more aggressive and in general lack much maturity" also. I find that the older generation was so harsh on their kids that when their kids had kids, the parental position was loosened and it's the parents fault because they are so laid back compared to their parents that they don't even notice their kid(s) are exactly like that. So in conclusion, I do think that the kids are less disciplined, but in the big picture, it's the fault of the parents doing the disciplining.
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ReplyDeleteI totally agree Nikki! Parents think it's just the kids problems, but they shouldn't be talking. They're the ones who have given us more freedom, like you said, and they shouldn't be pointing fingers at us!
DeleteI 100% agree that the youth is not very well disciplined. I could probably elaborate on this subject for hours. So many kids are making bad decisions these days, and society has definitely changed quickly, not in a positive way, over the passed years. Some people would say that their parents probably did the same things in their time, but honestly, did they really? Did teenagers lose their virginity at a young age, did young kids smoke knowing that it was bad for them, did kids talk back and disobey their parents expecting no punishment? I don't think so. Sure, we probably have more freedom than our parents did when they were our age, but with freedom comes great responsibility. I think that everyone has developed such bad habits at such a young age, because of our horrible new society, the useless magazines we spend reading and the trends that older kids shouldn't be setting. Teens shouldn't be "hating" on other teens to make themselves feel better, or talking behind someone's back and starting rumours to make themselves sound "cool". I understand that youth is the period where we are given more liberty, but most of us just take advantage of it. To be honest, I just think it's all messed up, and so is everyone around us.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you, I do believe that we are taking advantage of our freedom and our parents as well. Although I don't believe that every teenager of today is less disciplined that they were in the past because some parents are not less strict than they were in the past. So yes it is the majority of adolescents but not necessarily all of them.
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I do believe that children today are much less disciplined than they were in the past but I also believe that the authority figures in our lives are much less strict that they were in the past. In the past children viewed their parents and teachers as their superiors. Children were “seen and not heard “they just simply obeyed. Today adolescents have a voice, and valued opinions. We are seen and heard. I believe that children today take advantage of their parents because we do not fear them like we did in the past. So yes I do believe that kids today are much less disciplined than they were before but I also believe that parents and teachers are much less rigid than they were before.
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I totally agree, it isn't completely the child's fault.The generations become less strict and less disciplined as time goes on!
DeleteThis is a really good point. I agree that it isn't the children's fault since the authority figures are a lot less strict. -Kali Catterall
DeleteI do believe that the youth of today are well-disciplined but I just believe that they are disciplined in a different manner then before. If you are comparing our behavior to our parents then you should take not that back then life was different they wasn't as much TV's and/or electronic distractions compared to now. I also believe that youth act different due to the different rules in place such as less racism if though it still it exists the numbers are much less and rules put in place such as separation of boys and girls. I think that we are not more aggressive in any way and I would not be surprised if my parents parents said the same thing about them. - Dennis Mayuga
ReplyDeleteNowadays, kids take everything for granted. Parents think the kids are getting ruder and impolite, but it is not them that is changing, it is the society they live in. The television programs that the parents let them watch, and the social networks that basically allow you to rite anything you want. When it is written in a text message, it can be considered a joke instead of offensive. When a young girl talks back to her parents in a television program to create more drama in the show, the kid will learn from it and think it is alright. Children nowadays are not well disciplined at all. But then again, is it really their fault?
ReplyDeleteI agree that kids take everything for granted that is so true!
DeleteAlso, it's not all their fault because they learn from their parents.
I sort of agree with the fact that kids aren’t as disciplined as before. In the past, kids would get hit with a ruler, or get taught some sort of lesson, if they didn’t behave. So technically they didn’t have a choice but to be disciplined. I also think that they had a little more responsibility then we do now. Since people would die at a younger age, the oldest siblings could be left in charge of their siblings, which would give them lots of responsibility! But nowadays I don’t believe that we are completely un-disciplined. There are certain situations where we may not listen as well, or co-operate as well, but I find that most of the time we’re pretty good. We do have lots of freedom now though. With all the technology, we can write anything we would want, and we have access to a lot more things then they did in the past. But even though we have all this access I think that most people would have the decency to listen to their parents when stuff gets really out of hand, or when they’re trying to make a tough decision. The only difference from now and the past is that our rules are a little less strict, which lets kids be a bit more daring.
ReplyDeleteI agree that youth today are not well disciplined. I believe that in the past the adults had much more control over youth because the adults were more violent and were very much respected. Youth today are more out of control and don't always respect their parents but with a little bit more discipline from their parents they could be better people. I strongly believe it is not just the youth's fault that they are not disciplined it is also the parents fault because they are not teaching their children to act mature and be disciplined. Youth should learn to be more respectful to their parents and listen to them more often. I know that not all youth are poorly disciplined only the ones who's parents don't care as much therefore their children are immature and out of control.
ReplyDeleteI do not think the youth of today are very well disciplined. Everywhere i go nowadays i see kids talking back to their parents and disobeying them, littering in public, disrespecting their elders and much more. I know there has always been and there always will be misbehaved kids but i find that kids growing up in our generation don’t seem to know what the word respect means. I’m not saying it the kids’ fault because it’s the parents who are teaching the kids. But more than the parents, it’s the fault of today’s society. Can we really blame kids for acting without respect and no discipline when it’s all they see when they are out in public. Even though today’s youth might be misbehaved, we have to keep that they are only kids so do we really have to be angry if they act immature and stupid when it’s just a part of being a kid?
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The youth of today is not as disciplined as in past generations. I think it is mostly because today's parents don't pay as much attention to their kids. Today a kid would come home alone, stay home alone and do whatever he would want, whereas when our parents were kids they were supervised, and generally just spent less time by themselves. I think the punishments that adults give their kids are a lot different now than they were before. When my mom was a kid, if she misbehaved, she was disciplined more effectively than I will ever be. In today's society what happens when we misbehave? Maybe you get grounded, or get your phone taken away. Compared to what my parents got for being bad, my punishments are nothing. These are 2 of the factors that, in my opinion make our generation less disciplined than our parent’s generation.
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ReplyDeleteIn my opinion, I think that the kids of our generation are not well disciplined. I believe that most of the children of the 21st century are very spoiled, rude and expect everything to be handed to them.
ReplyDeleteA very good example was the other day when I went to the grocery store and I heard lots of screaming. I decided to go and check it out.
When I arrived at the scene, I saw a child, who was around ten years old throwing a temper tantrum because his mother did not buy him the chocolate he wanted. This is just one example of how un-disciplined, the children of today are.
I see things like this all the time! When children are at a store with their parents, they often expect to get everything they want and throw tantrums until their parents agree to buy it. Kids today seem to NEED the newest technology or toy that everyone else has.
DeleteI do not think children are very well disciplined today. Children of the twenty first century only care about technology. They will make their parents buy them the new gadgets such as an iPad or iPod or else they will throw a tantrum and tell them that they are the worst parents ever. This shows that parents are not as controlling of their children and give a lot of gifts to them as if they are forced to. Children take this for granted in order to get what they want. Another reason why children are not well disciplined today is because they seem to get away with anything. If they do something wrong, they might get in a little bit of trouble but what they did would be forgotten very soon. Kids do not behave well at all like how they did a long time ago and are not as respectful. As much as it seems like all the fault should be blamed on the child, it is also the parent’s fault. Children can only be respectful and disciplined if their parents teach them how to be because otherwise they will act the way they want to.
ReplyDeleteI totally agree with everything you said. I find that not only are kids not doing their part, but the parents either. Parents have to teach/tell their kids how to be respectful and to not get upset over an electronic
DeleteI disagree that kids today are not well disciplined. I believe that us kids are always being told that we are undisciplined although my mom and dad were told the same thing when they were younger. Its just the parents see it in a different light now that they are adults so they think we are undisciplined but they were just as bad us. Many kids these days are very polite and disciplined. Some people also say that our generation has bad manners. For example they say that our manners at the table are terrible. But its not our manners that is bad. The problem is that these people refuse to accept evolution and change. People these days are not obsessed with stupid rules like no elbows on the table. Meaning that has almost because correct to do so. So when people say that we are undisciplined and aggressive, I don't think we are the problem. I think it is them who refuse change.
ReplyDeleteI think that kids from today are not well disciplined. When I was a kid, I was never really handed things but now, kids beg their parents to get them IPods, IPhones, cell phones, etc. Kids these days have a totally different style; crop tops and leggings and booty shorts which make them look more undisciplined. I don’t think I have ever worn anything like that when I was a kid. Kids also give a lot more attitude to adults and are also very rude even to their parents when they say no to something they want. I think that as the years progress, kids will become more and more rude and will have less respect for adults and adults will have no respect for them. I think the main reason why kids are ruder and are not disciplined is because of the internet. The internet has so many sources that young kids can go on without their parents knowing and start to develop to learn these things and think that it’s the right thing to do or that it’s “cool”. Overall, I think that kids these days are not well disciplined.
ReplyDeleteIn our generation there are people who are not disciplined and others who are. Those who are undisciplined are probably just trying to rebel against their parents and are most likely just looking for attention. Those are the people who think they are cool but they just turn out to be morons who are ruining their future by trying to be in the "popular" crowd. In the end those who are undisciplined are usually not liked by those who are. They find them annoying and they think they are trying to be cool way too hard. The youth of today is undisciplined but isn't every youth? Didn't all teenagers have that rebellion phase for a couple of years when they hated their parents. So to sum up most of our youth is undisciplined.
ReplyDeleteWell in the past children were always disciplinedvery violently an then now it is illegal but many people still do it. Children are always given the choice to act respectively to there parents and the parents expect to be respected, but when you are always getting away with being bad or doing bad things it is too late for the parents to show discipline. If you must discipline a child violence is never the answer just take away their phone or limit the friends that come over etc. but violent never. yet still parents think that the way they were brought up was violently and they turned out just fine.
ReplyDeleteIn our generation their are some who are well and disciplined and some who are not, it all depends on their upbringing. Although, these days more and more kids are being less and less disciplined, they are acting out more and not listening to their parents because they think that they don't need to. They think that just because they are accepted at school by their peers that it will always be like this for them. I also think they feel that their parents will always be there so why treat them well, they are never going to leave right? They have to stay i'm their child, so why not be rude to them and do the opposite of what they tell me. Other generations still had these people who were less disciplined and more rebellious, but I feel that there are more and more people who are not as well disciplined because their parents give them everything and they don't work for anything. I think that there are some who are but also some who aren't, as it has been for awhile.
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