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What's wrong with kids these days?

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Thump;1788165; said:
Problem is, most of it is not happening within the school walls.

It's happening online.
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Parents need to take responsibility for their kids and their actions. Both sides of this issue. I have 5 kids aging from 4 to 13. I have yet to face any real issues with bullying but I do teach my children techniques to avoid these petty issues.

Parents need to communicate with their children and find out what is happening in their lives. If a problem exists - take it up with the school. If the problem still exists after that - Step up to the school district.

Children need to understand that anything that is happening now has happened in the past. This is a stage in life where children are forming their future "Character." You can't control bad things happening to you but you can control how you respond to these things.
 
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Thump;1788165; said:
Problem is, most of it is not happening within the school walls.

It's happening online.
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The articles cite physical violence occurring within the schools walls. The school administration might try to play up that angle to try to take some of the blame off of the school but I'm not buying it. Social networking was not even anywhere near as big say 5 years ago when the person I know from Mentor had issues there.
 
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My father is an officer in Grandview Hts. About 10 years ago they had a rash of teen suicides. I believe they had about 8 in a two year period. It's something that has always happened, it just now is receiving press. School in no worse today than when I was a kid. I would venture to say that the rate of teen suicide is the same now as it was 50 years ago.
 
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JBaney45;1788186; said:
The articles cite physical violence occurring within the schools walls. The school administration might try to play up that angle to try to take some of the blame off of the school but I'm not buying it. Social networking was not even anywhere near as big say 5 years ago when the person I know from Mentor had issues there.
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I'm just telling you man, the amount of garbage and venom that is spewed online that bleeds inside the school walls is absolutely unfathomable.
 
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Thump;1788193; said:
I'm just telling you man, the amount of garbage and venom that is spewed online that bleeds inside the school walls is absolutely unfathomable.
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I agree but kids need to toughen up.

Imagine a white, 5'10" 195lbs, academically gifted, uncoordinated, and glasses wearing boy going to an inner city high school where the racial split is 30% white, 65% black, and 5% other.

Everyone in life has challenges, it's all how you deal with them.
 
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1997Buckeye;1788201; said:
I agree but kids need to toughen up.

Imagine a white, 5'10" 195lbs, academically gifted, uncoordinated, and glasses wearing boy going to an inner city high school where the racial split is 30% white, 65% black, and 5% other.

Everyone in life has challenges, it's all how you deal with them.
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So if your kid gets bullied you'll tell him or her to just "toughen up"?
 
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Thump;1788203; said:
So if your kid gets bullied you'll tell him or her to just "toughen up"?
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I'll tell her to swell someones eye shut.

I was a small dude in first grade. I was one of the younger kids in my class. Third grader walked up to me and sucker punched me in the eye. I had a flashback to my older brother smashing the plastic eyeball of my Oscar the Grouch and I unleashed hell upon the third grader. My brother still has his coming.
 
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Thump;1788203; said:
So if your kid gets bullied you'll tell him or her to just "toughen up"?
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I would let mom build their self-esteem and I would get proactive. I would get to the bottom of the problem and help my child solve it.

And YES, I would tell them to grow thicker skins. I don't think we will have to big a problem with this though b/c my children are currently well adjusted and have a core group of friends who follow and practice their faith.
 
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Schools that do nothing about bullying need to be criminally prosecuted. Just as they are if they fail to report suspected child abuse to law enforcement.

Schools are getting lazier and lazier in all they do. They want high energy kids medicated. They don't want pay based on performance. They claim to be about diversity but refuse to stop racism within their walls. They want to teach little robots and then go home. It's sickening.
 
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1997Buckeye;1788191; said:
My father is an officer in Grandview Hts. About 10 years ago they had a rash of teen suicides. I believe they had about 8 in a two year period. It's something that has always happened, it just now is receiving press. School in no worse today than when I was a kid. I would venture to say that the rate of teen suicide is the same now as it was 50 years ago.
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Interesting numbers on that found here:

http://www.suicide.org/suicide-statistics.html

I know the table won't copy correctly, so go to the very last chart in the link. Rates among 15-19 y/o from early 2000's (7.3-8 per 100k) are double those from 50's-60's (2.7-3.6 per 100k). Noticeable bumps in 70's and 80's (5.9-8.5), and peak between 1990 and '95 (11.1-10.3). Many of the other age groups show comparatively little change, or a modest decline over the 53 year study, especially after age 35.

The Croatian girl's story reminds me of one from a few months ago. A 15 year old girl from Ireland, during her first year at a US HS, was harassed daily after she hooked up with a popular senior boy, and hung herself. I can see where she felt she didn't have anyone to turn to. She's not going to tell her parents, "Hey, I [censored]ed this guy three years older than me, and now everyone calls me a slut." She had to have felt totally isolated in a world where most people treated her like garbage.
 
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It strikes me that much of this bullying revolves around sex - what your preference is, whether you engage in it pre-maritally (or on camera, or in public, etc.), whether you don't engage in it at all ...

As always, sex is perhaps God's greatest gift to us critters here on earth, yet it's so easy to abuse.
 
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Not enough duct tape?
http://www.examiner.com/pop-culture...mom-duct-tapes-toddler-to-the-wall-for-laughs
 
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