What's wrong with teenagers these days?

Question

Is it just me or does anyone else think they 1) Try to hard to act grownup 2) act like know-it-alls 3) have absolutely NO respect for anyone else 4) are full of themselves and 5) think that they'd rather IGNORE things that call out their ignorance, rather than them LEARNING from the experience?

I mean I know this is a typical teenage rite of passage, it just seems like it's gotten a lot worse in this generation.

Star if you agree. Also give your opinions.

Answer 1

Kids are actually smarter now than they were years ago. Being humble was a necessity back when it was dangerous to take risks. Now, kids are expected to suddenly become adults at 18 and as unforgivable this economy is, we can't lead them to believe they can mooch off their parents until they have all the answers. Kids need to have confidence more than humility in this day and age.

Answer 2

Well first dude, don't worry about offending. I mean this is anonymous questions man. I ain't like u are meetin someon face to face. But I gotta tell u that all teenagers ain't like what u describe. Theres some who are and some who are worse too, but I would say a decent amount ain't like that at all. But really your question sounds more like a disillusion about someone who didn't appreciate your sacrifice for them. That's gonna happen man...part of life. Too bad u got hurt man, but somehow, someway we all get hurt man. And u sound very depressed (even tho u say we won't see u being that way). Not dissin u man, but your whole message has a depressing tone to it. But there ain't nothin wrong with being depressed when u have been hurt. If u remain depressed for a long time thats when u gotta worry about it. And yeah...I'm a teenager too. But even I can see that u gotta just go on with your life....maybe become a dermatologist like u wanted at first....and try to put the weaknesses of others out of your mind.

Answer 3

Teenagers have no respect because adults that have raised them have no respect either anymore.



"Ya know the "It's all our parents fault" argument really flew out the window years ago. Yet another typical teenage behavior of today. They refuse to take responsibility for their own actions."



First off I'm 24 so your argument just went out the window right there. Second, have you seen adults these days? I've worked with the public before, and without a doubt in my mind the rudest age group to deal with were middle aged people, who are supposedly the most polite group. The kids are learning it somewhere.

Answer 4

A lot do and it really sucks. I am a teen myself and i know a lot of people who do that. They do try hard to act grown-up and it really can get them into trouble. They also act like know-it-alls way too much. And usually they don't know what they're talking about or get bad grades when they do that. The respect thing is huge. It even happens with my best-friends who like, whenever I ask for something at all they just sit there and ignoring playing whatever they are. Most are full of themselves and I hate that. And you are right, no one learns from their experiences as a teen anymore. I try to, but most don't. Please don't think of me as one from what I have said, I try my hardest not to be and it is working mostly, but I might slip up, and I catch myself and apologize.

Answer 5

There are three main reasons teenagers today are screwed up...



1. Television ----> Stupid Television Shows, Reality T.V. and everything else that promotes Negativity and Violence

2. Radio ----> No Meaning, Money Oriented

3. Parents ----> Ignorant People can't raise Responsible Children

Answer 6

They have always been like this nothing new. Looks to me that you are one unhappy man that doesnt cant stand somebody else being happy or maybe your an outcast. But i agree Teenagers are Selfish and cruel sometimes. But they are just trying to find their identity. Parents should teach their kids some respect maybe thats how it would help. But a teen is to young to be old and to old to be young. So they dont know what to be. Thats why they react in that sort of way.

Answer 7

Seems to me you're pointing out personality traits. This is not only true for teenagers, but for adults and kids too. Age isn't anything but a number. Wisdom doesn't always come within age. Just more than likely, we're learning who we are during our teenage years. We're going to act like idiots sometimes.

Answer 8

It goes both ways. What is wrong with us adults who didn't raise those teens properly? I'm only 22 so I have yet to raise children but I'm just saying...if I have a child and that child is a little jackass, I'm the one to blame because I raised him that way.





I do agree that teens are way worse now then when I was a teen a few years ago but the media is forcing them to grow up, parents are too busy working to stay home and raise them, their friends are all about peer pressure.



I'm not making excuses for these teens but this world isn't a pretty place and it's because of the parents, the media and the teens themselves.



If those teens wanted to be different, they would be but they don't have role models so they don't know how to act differently.

Answer 9

I AM NOT LIKE THAT!!!

im 14 btw.

and i am VERY straight forward to anyone. i dont tell lies often unless i need to. hence, i am responsible for my actions.

i had one of my teachers at school tell

me i am more mature than ALL the kids in

all of the classes.

THATS 6 CLASSES! lol



most kids my age are very immature though. so i agree.

:)

nice Q



and the peeps that say "it was my parents fault" are sooooo lying because they learn it from each other.

Answer 10

It's because of the surroundings, the teen's these days were brought up around high technology and a lot of other things that back then the teens were brought up to productive things and they weren't so tied up with high end technology which made them appreciate other things in life. You can't blame the teens, the parents, blame time.

Answer 11

Well it really differs from teen to teen. I'm 14 and don't act like that. I learn from my mistakes and no i'm not perfect. My parents have done a very good job with raising me and i think the teens that act like that do it for attention. Cause they don't get attention from they're family possibly?

Answer 12

Jesus you're right and it HAS gotten doubly worse dude. But the parents are the ones who did a crappy job usually but sometimes the kid wants to be a total jackazz and take their own route of douchebaggery. But soon they'll grow up and they will finally stop acting lame and annoying.

Answer 13

Parents have educated kids less as well these days I think.



thats a reason why many of these kids act like this. Its also some parents that dont raise there kids properly.



Not to mention there are even teenagers having kids these days

Answer 14

Now-a-days, it seems like us 'teenagers' have no choice but to grow up early. People try to suck us into drugs as soon as we 'look' old enough to do it, our parents need us to work because of this bad economy, or our parents grow crazy and depressed because of this economy.. which causes us to have to grow up and realize, be a better person, and stabilize our own damn family. We have to pretend to know it all so we don't get stomped over. And I don't know any teenager that has no respect for just anyone else, but just to the people that 'deserve' it. Teenagers that are full of themselves most likely have a hidden self esteem problem, which is not uncommon these days because of how this world works.. I mean, look at the entertainment industry.. it's not hard to miss since it's everywhere. We're expected to act and look a certain way. And, most likely teenagers DO learn from their experience, but they fail to admit to anyone else that they're wrong.



And it's not only the 'teenagers' that have these 'problems', it's adults too. From your avatar, you also look like a teenager yourself.

Answer 15

Well, I know not all teenagers are like that. I would know that because I am one. I don't usually try to act grownup, I never act like a know-it-all, I respect all of my peers, I'm not full of myself, and I learn from my experiences. But alot of my friends are like that. One of them's a pervert.

Answer 16

Sounds exactly like how things were back when I was a teenager...Nothing is new under the sun.

I would star if I had any left. Yahoo took my main account yesterday.

Answer 17

With a good portion of the teen population, there's a LOT that's wrong.

1) Yep

2) Definatly

3) Usually Not

4) Absolutely

5) Exactly



I'm glad to see I'm not the only one thinks there's a lot wrong with kids today.. Luckily, not all teens are like that, and there is still time to improve before we become the adults of the world :)

Answer 18

Old people always hate the teenage generation and claim that it's getting worse, but really you were just as much of a brat as we are.



And chill on the generalizations. You know some teenagers are getting educated, following the rules, and give you the respect that you won't give them.

Answer 19

SHUT UP OLD MAN!

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Kidding :)

Even though I'm a teenager I agree. My parents don't tolerate behavior like that. It totally amazes me how disrespectful some teens are to their parents. One time when I was at a friends house and she got in a fight with her mom, which led to her calling her mom a butt face.

If I said that to my mom, she would smack the hell out of me.

Answer 20

Agreed.



I think it's especially worse in America because the teens grew up in a time of economic prosperity, time to spend, spend, spend until you drop

Now all of a sudden, spending isn't an option and everyone's got to tighten their belt and suck it up.



Teens are also too busy losing themselves (with Twilight, Hannah Montana, etc; with PC and video games, with cell phones and texting, with computers and internet)



Although, there are some teens who are just Lost. They don't know who they are or where they stand in the world, they're just so insecure that they have to act out in order to hide the fact that they're scared.

And of course there are some nice teens who are still respectful, but it's definitely not that many



But you also have to note that there are adults who haven't really set a good example either...whether we like it or not, everyone has been influenced by their parents. Try to resist it, but you'll always take a part of mom and dad with you when you grow up.

Answer 21

I totally agree I guess its just a breakdown of society I don't know. But I know that once these kids become adults, they'll be wishing they were kids again.

Answer 22

1) I'm both mature and immature for my age. Depending on how I'm feeling, I'll either act older or younger then I am.

2) Maybe that's because we do know it all.

3) You don't respect us, so why should we respect you?

4) We're just confident.

5) We're not the only ones who make the same mistakes over and over again.

Answer 23

Yh thats so true but most of them grow out of it.

i think every teen is like that. the ones with brains could do soooo well in life but then u see them with **** jobs when they're older. then they regret how they used to be.

Answer 24

Not ALL teenagers are like this. Yeah, some of them are. But I know a lot of teens that don't act like that. The ones that do that really piss me off.

Answer 25

i am a teenager but i don't act this way at all...but then again everyone thinks i act different from a normal teenager so maybe you're right!

Answer 26

I think that it's the music these days that makes them act worse now.

Have you heard the crap thats on the radio

Answer 27

1) Yes

2) Yes

3) Yes

4) Yes

5) Yes

Answer 28

I am a teen but def. dont act that way parents should correct their kids and this generation wouldn't be that way

Answer 29

well im 16 and im rather mature

i know i dont "know it all"

i have respect for just about everyone unless they ruin it by being a jackass for no reason

full of myself? no i suck and i know it

and as for that last 1 when i screw up i learn from my mistakes... sometimes



i work for the things i want im doing landscaping this summer



but yea allot of people at my school are like that

Answer 30

haha it's basically the parents fault for how our generation turned out.

i'm 13 , fuu ck off.

Answer 31

im a teen and i ant all those things and i bet that you were like that when u were a teen

Answer 32

i personally think that we teenagers are a bunch of assholes, who think we are entitled to the world but we have done nothing.

Answer 33

quit romanticizing the past. people didn't act any different when you were young.



you don't miss the "good ol days", you miss your YOUTH. that's what made that time period good to you, you were young.



now you're old, and you subconsciously envy the young.

Answer 34

Using (includes texting) cell phones while driving

Answer 35

i know , right. :/

Answer 36

everything. im a teenager myself and even ive noticed it

Answer 37

i know it all :P

Answer 38

....ok, guess who raised us?

Answer 39

Theyre all hopped up on crack cocaine!

Answer 40

i agree

Answer 41

hey iam a teenager and i don't act like that at all...but you are right about some kids...

Answer 42

yes.

but that's all starting at an early age, like 11. D:

there's so many annoying 11/12 y/os in the world.

Answer 43

my graduating class was the last sane generation, yeah i agree with you. unfortunatley, its only gonna get worse. i suspect religion will dissapear all together

Answer 44

Yeah... And get off my lawn!!

Answer 45

blame it on my mama

Answer 46

not all teens are the same..there are some that do have respect and not try to act grown..

Answer 47

only some teens are like that

Answer 48

I agree completely with you.

Answer 49

as a teenager i find very insulting...

i don't think anything you said is true

i'm sure for some teens it's true, but don't stereotype us

Answer 50

they are stupid teeny boppers

Answer 51

Every generation will bring something new, You can't do nothing about it. You were once one right?

Answer 52

- Bad influence

- Possession Obssession!!!



two simple things... Live life Simple!! teenagers are too surrounded by objects.. simple things are the key to happiness. family, friends ect..



sorry weird answer but thats wat i think...

Btw i'm a teenager. =)

Answer 53

MOST OF THEM LIKE JONAS BROTHERS. HITLER WOULD BE SCARED.

Answer 54

I blame the Interweb! *shakes cane in the air*

Answer 55

The parent SUCK & should've never been allowed to pro-create!.



II'll say it; my own mother sucks as a parent. we recently found out my sister went off to college & started sleeping around with guys...including one she met on MYSPACE. I let my so-called "mother" know & she basically had NO reaction. she treats my sister like she did nothing wrong.



no wonder kids are screwed up these days



thank God theirs a few normal ppl like u & me left :-)

Answer 56

Yeah I hate teens.



Wait.. I just hate the majority of human beings.

Answer 57

Hey, hey, WATCH IT, BUDDY!

I'm still a teen. And I'm in no hurry to grow up.

Im trying as hard as I can to stay in my last year of teen-hood. :(

Answer 58

Nope, I'm a teenager and i sure as hell don't act like that.

Answer 59

speak for the teenagers you know.

every teenager isn't exactly alike.

and if they act like that around you it's probably cause they don't like when people generalize because of their age group.

:)

Answer 60

Hey.. Im a teen and I actually am rather mature for my age..so you cant say that every single teen is like that..cause not all of us are..

Answer 61

it has, but im a teenager and that doesnt describe me at all

Answer 62

100% agree....

Answer 63

nothing...

Answer 64

yup that's us all right but gusse what generation raised us yup that's right ur i blame u for this ha ha yup i know it ALL no need to applaud :P bow if u wish