Are American kids spoiled?

I'll be 63 tomorrow, and I've been reading how American kids are shit since I learned to read and was a little kid myself. It's just the same old crap. Old people like reading about how young people suck. Always have, always will. Works both ways, I might note.

 

One-quarter of children live in poverty, and those just above the line aren't living high on the hog. So you can't say American kids are spoiled, because a large number of them are actually deprived.

 

And, Dick, have some confidence in yourself as a parent. Every time you weigh in on subjects such as these, you talk how scared shitless you are. Just love your kids, get to know them, set appropriate limits and always follow through, and you'll be all right.

 

If this is so, how do you, as a parent, deal with it/nip it in the bud? Or do you just throw your hands up?


Watch and learn from this guy

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079239/

 

True.

I think I'm hyperbolizing.

At least a little bit.

 

About 35% of students in my county, pretty average, are getting some form of free and reduced lunch.

 

Yes, kids are spoiled. They were in my generation 40 years ago and even moreso today. Some can't survive 5 minutes without their cells phones and texts messages.

 

Sounds like most adults as well. How does that make them spoiled?

 

A lot of adults are spoiled, too. I imagine a lot of it begins at a young age.

 

As Gee rightly points out, there's an economy of generational contempt going back to the beginning of recorded history.

 

It's not their fault most of them are taller than you.

 

But, again: This doesn't seem to be cross-generational so much as cross-cultural. Obviously there is some generational judging going on, which will be the case by definition any time children are written about. But for once it's not comparing children to the children of yore, but rather American children to third world children.