generation gaps Options

[brooklyneast05]

how do you feel about this? does it ring true or are we still at fault? i think the majority of us would agree kids are f*cked up nowadays. even people in their early 20's like me feel that kids are f*cked up and that it's a world apart from how it was when we were kids. what happened? or is this just how it works, and we are forever destined to think the generation in below us is f*cked? at what point does it get to be too messed up? now we hear stories of 5th graders giving head in the bathroom or other bizarre sounding events. regardless of whether my generation was f*cked up at 11 years old, that's not the kind of f*cked up people were complaining about i don't think. how important is this and how is it going to shape our world? how big an effect does the loss of innocence have. i'm not talking completely about sex, but i guess sex related is just a good example. i'm more talking about the fact that it seems like kids have an increasingly more narrow frame of time to be kids. is it going to go to the point where they don't have a childhood hardly at all?

[brooklyneast05]

yeah desensitized is probably a better phrasing/word than when i said loss of innocence. that's point on what i'm talking about. kids nowadays seem extremely desensitized to a wide range of things, whether it be sex or violence, or anything else. like you said, stuff kids do nowadays i couldn't have dreamed up. me and my friends had to sneak around to rent grand theft auto because my parents wouldn't rent it for us.

now it seems like people are unable to flirt with the line when it comes to sheltering. it's a terrible thing to shelter your kid to an extreme extent, i think it does them a lot of damage. but it seems like we're (society in general i guess) going too far opposite of that. kids need to be sheltered to an extent. i don't feel like parents shelter their kids enough and it does equally as much damage. there's a fine line, and as we progress we should be moving closer to the line. we shouldn't be missing it by 100 yards in either direction.