Are modern children over indulged?

[W.C.]

Isn't this just an age old problem?

Every generation thinks their children are spoilt because they have things that they didn't. That's happened for a very long time. I'm sure my parents thought I was spoilt because I had a zx spectrum. The kids now have more advanced stuff and all use it. Don't think that makes them more spoilt.

As someone has said though the worry of them growing up earlier, especially girls (boys never really grow up) is a much bigger concern.

I actually feel sorry for them. Social media means they can't ever get away from peer pressure and just be themselves. I've seen my two go through all this and come out the other side but I can see how some children really end up on the wrong side of this.

So glad I lived my teenage years without social media. Must be horrible.

 

[W.C.]

If the older generations had access to Playstations, Xbox's, high speed internet, gaming computers and smart phones I can assure you most of you would be doing the same thing most kids/teenagers do now days.

abso-bloody-exactly. Kids are only being themselves in the world put in front of them. By adults.

 

[Notters]

"Sneakers"? Shudder.

 

[heathgate]

Their sense of entitlement is staggering,... sadly fed by the system that tells them they are entitled,... so yes, they are over-indulged.

If you haven't been an adult in a different era... be it the 60's, 70's or 80's. .. then you are unlikely to be able to see the differences... it is markedly different, believe me.

 

[Questions]

Their sense of entitlement is staggering,... sadly fed by the system that tells them they are entitled,... so yes, they are over-indulged.

If you haven't been an adult in a different era... be it the 60's, 70's or 80's. .. then you are unlikely to be able to see the differences... it is markedly different, believe me.

This system you talk about is just marketing and that is coupled with the fact that parents now have a much higher disposable income than parents in the 60s' and 70s and of course there is just so much stuff out there to buy. Put those facts together and yes, they have so much more but so do us big people.
I've got 3 smart TVs , a great mountain bike, an iPad and a season ticket for The Albion. I'm a spoilt dad.

 

[daveybgtt]

Are-modern-children-over-indulged

Mine isn't!



Faster boy!

 

[W.C.]

Mine isn't!

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Faster boy!

He's missed a bit.

 

[Chicken Run]

I don't know about anyone else but pubs seem to be over run with kids these days and I mean babies and toddlers , drives me mad as the bars become gridlocked with prams everywhere, when my kids were that age I didn't feel the need to take em to the boozer with the Mrs.

 

[Bakero]

Everything was better in my day.

 

[alfredmizen]

Well I was up at six this morning to take my son on his paper round in my car , make of that what you will

 

[alfredmizen]

I'm sure it varies as much now as it ever did, albeit with a much more child friendly 'average'. When I moved to Canada in 82 I was astonished, out and about by the beaches, how nice the parents were to their kids, asking them things, suggesting things etc (while in the UK most of what I saw was 'right, here we are on the beach, now bugger off and build a sandcastle while I read my book').

Even so, I doubt that the poor little sod I saw struggling to walk across Faversham creek bridge the other day, while his chavvy mum, pushing his pram full of shopping, shouted at him, making him cry, would agree

Why did you come back Harry ?

 

[heathgate]

This system you talk about is just marketing and that is coupled with the fact that parents now have a much higher disposable income than parents in the 60s' and 70s and of course there is just so much stuff out there to buy. Put those facts together and yes, they have so much more but so do us big people.
I've got 3 smart TVs , a great mountain bike, an iPad and a season ticket for The Albion. I'm a spoilt dad.

Waffle all you like... you haven't answered the original question.

 

[Megazone]

I think the parents are the most spoilt. All they seem to do these days is spend loads of money on their next holiday or car, brag about it on social media, spend as little time with the kids by letting the computer games do all the work and eat loads of takeaways.

Spoil shits if you ask me.

 

[Questions]

Waffle all you like... you haven't answered the original question.

Ok...."Has the world become too child centric?"

No.

 

[LlcoolJ]

I think the parents are the most spoilt. All they seem to do these days is spend loads of money on their next holiday or car, brag about it on social media, spend as little time with the kids by letting the computer games do all the work and eat loads of takeaways.

Spoil shits if you ask me.

Well said.

 

[Chicken Run]

I think the parents are the most spoilt. All they seem to do these days is spend loads of money on their next holiday or car, brag about it on social media, spend as little time with the kids by letting the computer games do all the work and eat loads of takeaways.

Spoil shits if you ask me.

Yep

 

[melias shoes]

Without a doubt. Social media trends and the like seem to be turning kids into illiterate drongos.

Good word drongo.

 

[melias shoes]

I think the parents are the most spoilt. All they seem to do these days is spend loads of money on their next holiday or car, brag about it on social media, spend as little time with the kids by letting the computer games do all the work and eat loads of takeaways.

Spoil shits if you ask me.

Absolutely spot on. A bloke I work with had a 3 week holiday in Greece with his wife whilst their 3 children stayed with the mother in law. Selfish self centred b******s. If you can't afford for the kids to go then you don't. Surely?

 

[LlcoolJ]

Absolutely spot on. A bloke I work with had a 3 week holiday in Greece with his wife whilst their 3 children stayed with the mother in law. Selfish self centred b******s. If you can't afford for the kids to go then you don't. Surely?

Pair of c*#*s. Humans are inherently selfish and it's an affliction one has to overcome. But if you can't put your kids first then you're just scum, subhuman scum.

#alan

 

[biddles911]

Ok...."Has the world become too child centric?"

No.

Yes, children are far too indulged these days even by the standards of twenty years ago.

Personally, I think you should be tough with your children, partly to prepare them for the real world (which is very tough, in my view) and, partly, to give them something to look forward to when they're an adult!

Protect them, inform them, educate them and guide them but don't indulge them. They just end up ineffectual and unprepared for life.