Fuck kids

[rossmum]

I got a good walloping once or twice as a kid, but I was pretty good. Dad and I both have short tempers so we constantly rile each other up and on occasion get pretty nasty at each other, I love my parents though. I'll be damned if I won't bring my kids up the same way I was, because hey, it worked.

Regarding Jean-Luc's point about people being too soft... you can attribute most of the problems in our society to that very thing. Something is very, very wrong when someone who breaks into your house with the intention of stealing your personal property and harming you or your family can sue the shit out of you for cutting themselves on a window which they broke.

[PopeAK49]

Ya i never grew up having an argument with my parents when they get mad at me, even over nothing. Maybe because of my bad experiences in the past.

[Bodzilla]

Want to know why kids have no respect for anyone or anything these days? Look at the parents. Or don't, since most of them aren't there. They're out working all day or out boozing all day and leaving their kid with babysitters or daycare groups or whatever.

If people actually gave a flying shit about proper parenting (and no that does NOT mean beating the shit out of the kid every five minutes), this wouldn't be nearly as prolific.

bada bing bada boop.

[Cortexian]

Want to know why kids have no respect for anyone or anything these days? Look at the parents. Or don't, since most of them aren't there. They're out working all day or out boozing all day and leaving their kid with babysitters or daycare groups or whatever.

Or they just do what may parents did, left me at home alone 90% of the time because they were to busy with work. God, I never got any parenting from my parents. It's a good thing my best buddies parents were always around most of the time.

[rossmum]

Isn't that illegal?

[RecycleBin]

Man, what the fuck is crawling up the asses of todays kids? If I would have said that to my mom she would have beat kicked my ass all the way to Hong Kong. I couldn't even watch the whole video. If I was his mother I would shut is Xbox off grab the controller from his hands and bludgen him with it. Sometimes when I'm in the car with my dog kids will start barking at him and say "ooo look at dat pit bull" and the peice of shit parents are just sitting there laughing. I have half the mind to let my dog out and make him bite the shit out of everybody there. I have to admire that kids balls though. But seriously, stop threatening your kids and start beating them. Have any of you seen Super Nany or Nany 911? All the parents do for dicapline is say "Please stop" ot "Please don't do that, mommy is tired" and the kids never get hit, they continue acting like retards.

[kid908]

Parents need to assert their authority instead of folding so easily. Today's parenting schools teach how to nurture (is that spelled wrong?) and give the child what they want, NOT WHAT THEY NEED! Since when the hell does a kid need XBL to live? An offline xbox/xbox360 is fine with me, but they shouldn't even be online talking smack to potentially a cop, lawyer, or terrorist, who can arrest them for threatening a law enforcement officer, sued for whatever, I'm sure that there's something about what that kid did there that can be sued for, or just blown up and get the entire family killed.

I've never met 15-20+ that act like that at all, from my experience, the only ones that act like that are those who are 5-12 year olds and all of them are like that.

[flibitijibibo]

Before I start, I would like to point out that this is a good post, but the responses I will be giving come from my own experiences. So, not saying you're wrong on any count, but here's what I've seen.

Parents need to assert their authority instead of folding so easily. Today's parenting schools teach how to nurture (is that spelled wrong? Nah, it's right) and give the child what they want, NOT WHAT THEY NEED! Since when the hell does a kid need XBL to live? I've found that most kids act tough on XBL for a reason: They can't be tough anywhere else without the bigger (or given some of these pussies, smaller) kids ruining his shit. So, admittedly, they may actually require this to not kill themselves for sucking so much. An offline xbox/xbox360 is fine with me, but they shouldn't even be online talking smack to potentially a cop, lawyer, or terrorist, who can arrest them for threatening a law enforcement officer, sued for whatever, I'm sure that there's something about what that kid did there that can be sued for, or just blown up and get the entire family killed. A bit of a run-on, but yeah, this is all pretty much right. Again, I would put emphasis on "online", because I guarantee you the second a true authority is in front of them, they'll crumble like a water-soaked cookie.

I've never met 15-20+ that act like that at all, from my experience, the only ones that act like that are those who are 5-12 year olds and all of them are like that. This is where my experience differs the most. I've found that between the ages of 15-20, most people are exactly the same as any younger age. The only real difference is that when sex is involved, they actually know what they're talking about.

[Pooky]

I've been waiting for some inspiration to write my next uberrant, and by God if you didn't give me some with these videos

In any event, the issue really does come down to parents nowadays being way too soft, and you can see this extend into the culture today (see America). Nobody wants to hurt anyone, yet they'll take abuse just to ensure they protect their kids...owait remember guys, THINK OF THE CHILDREN!!!!!!!

Seriously though, what I don't get is why all these fuckers are on Live. I may have been playing Half-Life when I was 8 years old, but I never treated, nor do I treat anyone this way.

Voice chat. It's a lot easier to say stupid shit when you don't have to take the effort to type it into a keyboard.

[cheezdue]

My parents disciplined me by hittimg me with a chancla everytime I disrespected them.