Kids growing up too fast?

[Rozi]

This isn't some sort of new phenomenon though. It's just a cyclical pattern throughout history; young adults behaving in what they see an an adult way. It's just far more publicised nowadays with the easiness of getting information, increasing idea of putting the self first leading to a reduction in extreme views (religion, sexual freedom etc).

[-:Undertaker:-]

I think its better this styles coming back, I hated the tracksuits they use to all wear. plus im a fan of the fashion out nowadays.

This, the 1990s regarding fashion were dreadful.... especially in Liverpool.

[Catchy]

This isn't anything new lol :S society is always changing, you can't expect it to stay the same... Obviously norms and values change over time which has a big part in what you're saying. I don't see anything wrong with kids wanting to have the latest stuff? It's just fashion trends and most probably grow out of it.

[buttons]

kinda goes with this article i read about increasing crime resulting from the freedom and individualism that came after ww2 like @Rozi; said about it leading to reduction in religion and morals. basically says the sixties are to blame for crime as it was the beginning of lax attitudes toward sex and 'licentiousness'. (lacking moral discipline, rebelling against norms - big part of the sixties) thus the whole attitude of the sixties has led to the change in teenage behaviour
might seem bit over exaggerated to some but there are good points to it, talks about how kids grow up too quickly and don't communicate but instead use phones
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk...e-1584969.html




anyway, if i look at my cousins now who are 13/14 i think the **** they get up to is unreal. my 14 year old cousin smokes, hangs out with older boys, has lost her virginity, gets drunk, wears short skirts etc and i think it's ridiculous. then i look back at myself and see i acted the exact same way too (except the short skirts and all this fake tan fake eyelashes, i was taught do your eye makeup or do lipstick, show off your boobs or show off your legs, NEVER both and i still stick to that). i smoked. i tried drugs. i got drunk. i dated older boys. I WORE ******* BLUE EYESHADOW AND EYELINER GOD WHY DIDN'T MY MUM STOP ME! it's really all part of growing up. we had our own fashions but like everyone else points out people now wear really short, provocative clothing like.. my younger cousins wear less to school than i do out clubbing but at school of any decade, you'll always try to fit in. at mine everyone wanted a Nokia 3310 or something but my mum wouldn't let me get one so i wasn't cool enough i wasn't allowed a pair of shoes that everyone else had either (my mum was strict about me getting everything handed to me on a plate) while now i have more freedom so will buy things ive seen others have (a)




also when i hear about the shennanigans my mum got up to when she was that age in the 80s it's the exact same as i and many others did its just more publicised and accepted now so maybe there's truth to the whole sixties thing. once you leave school and grow up there's less (from what ive seen) pressure and competition with others and most people get along regardless of how nerdy or w/e you were at school. not to mention i remember a few people who were nerdy in our early years but once we got older they got hot and suddenly got in with the crew cause kids are shallow like that.

[Grig]

Is there a problem with kids wanting to wear good clothes. I always liked good clothes and to be fashionable even as a kid. I remember when the spiked hair and baggy jeans were fashionable- and I did it in year 6.

I think it's quite a generalization saying all this- you've just generalized a whole group in society. It really depends on upbringing and that's related to parents and home life. Although the whole world has lost some class (as a general thing).