Youths are different from yesterday. Youth today do not remember years ago when it didn’t take much for kids to have a smile on their face. Previous generations, they enjoyed bike riding, fun times at the park, movies, and sports. Young people are different than twenty years ago. Today’s teenagers are influenced by Smart Phones, TV images, and Social Media. Today youth have their faces buried in the phone at family gatherings. Previous generations there were pulled cords walking around the house while talking on the phone. Youth today use Social Media to cyber bully others. Twenty years ago there weren’t any communicating on the web or anything else as fare as that goes; teenagers doesn’t seem to take their lives as serious as …show more content…
When coming up many teenagers were scared of their parents, there was no way they would ever talk back, smack their lips or slam any doors during them days. Now they want to do that plus some more. The blame for this goes a long way; for one, society as far as TV; social media and peer, there is so many things that youth are allowed to do on TV that was prohibited years ago, for instance; they never said offensive words on TV, but now it is perfectly find, same sex couples never heard of it, but it is perfectly ok, extreme violence, it’s ok, TV shows are borderline porn. So with that being said; the changes from yesterday to today is that the youth are becoming adults with all of those things, and much more going on around them. Parents must guide their children every single step of the way, therefore; many parents will have to work overtime than parents twenty years ago…that’s what’s lacking, creating a domino effect for the future …show more content…
According to Rebecca Sweat, “Admittedly these may seem like relatively minor upsets in a world scarred by school violence, teen pregnancy, adolescent suicide and widespread substance abuse. Nevertheless, such small examples illustrate the depth and scope of a serious problem in Western society: children and teens are growing up too fast, and the innocence of childhood is becoming a thing of the past” (para. 4). Our youth are growing up too fast, right in front of our very own eyes. It takes a lot of patience’s of trying to teach them right from wrong, she would say; leave me alone, I know what I am doing or he might say “ I got this” , “let me do things my way”, they will even say “mine your own business”, that is what to expected from our generation today, there is no self-respect at all, the only respect that with it is, JAIL!!, and off they go, that’s when they want to change their mines, the things being said then is “I’m sorry, you were right, I should have listen” but, then it’s a little too late so, what comes next? You are the man so stand up and be a man or “mommy I am pregnant”. If you take that pill then you have to swallow