Sometimes I can’t believe what some of the (British) youth of today are like. I often watch programmes like The Worlds Strictest Parents and Young Dumb and Living Off Mum and I am dumbfounded by the attitude of the young adults and teenagers featured on these shows. Disgusted actually. Honestly, I cannot believe the attitude of these young people, and if this is how many young people feel then goodness knows what the future holds not just for them, but for our society going forward.
These youngsters are usually unemployed, having either dropped out off college or just because they cannot be arsed to go out and get work. They live rent free at home and do nothing all day to help out their parents, while spending their evenings out drinking, smoking and/or doing drugs and having sex and just partying really. They manage to blag money off their parents to fund their lifestyles and to get by day to day and yet treat their parents …well like s**t! They have no respect for their parents and swear at them and treat their homes like hotels – and their parents are helpless and these kids get away with it.
This is what I don’t get. Why do these parents let their children treat them this way? There is no way in this world that I would have been able to act the same way and get away with it when I was a teenager. I admit that maybe I wasn’t actually the rebellious type so it would never have got so bad, but I wouldn’t have dared over step the mark with my Mum – the consequences were enough to prevent me from doing anything too terrible! I also respected my parents, and although there were times when I maybe didn’t like them very much because I wasn’t allowed to go out somewhere, I would never bad mouth them or show them disrespect.
The youngsters featured in these programmes do nothing for our country’s image to the rest of the world either. It just shows the British youth in a very bad light and when in the Worlds Strictest Parents programme they go to live with a family abroad, their behaviour is appalling to begin with. It really makes me ashamed sometimes to be British the way these teens – representatives of our nation- act towards their hosts and appear to be just so rude to put it politely!
The recent rioting in our major cities last month also highlighted the state of how bad a lot of our British teens has become. I couldn’t believe my eyes when I saw our teenagers and young adults – this country’s future – rampaging through the streets, causing criminal damage and looting and having no respect for the police or their communities. It was like watching one of those docu-soap style shows.
It was so unbelievable and unforgivable in my opinion. Yet during the riots, when young people were interviewed on the news about their opinions on what was happening, they thought it was great and that it served our country and government right for the cuts that were made in youth services. It was a laugh and just something to do! Like some kind of come-uppence that was due and which Britain deserved.
It really saddens me that our country has come to this. It’s like a lot of our youngsters feel the world owes them something, and that they don’t need to work because society and their parents will bail them out allowing them to live how they want. Not only do they disrespect their parents and ‘the establishment’ but I feel they disrespect themselves. Binge drinking and sleeping around recklessly so young is not admirable or clever, but they won’t realise this until they are older and reflect back on their teenage years. Being young we don’t see the dangers that being older allows us, and at their age many of them don’t care anyway!
I just don’t understand why things have come to this – whatever happened to make it so?
I would like to point out that I appreciate that not all young people are like this and many are respectful, hard working and full of moral fibre (as my grandparents would say!), it’s just such a shame that all we ever tend to see portrayed on the TV are the bad ‘uns. I am relieved that by the end of each The Worlds Strictest Parents episode, the wayward teens, upon returning home to their families, are usually ready to make amends and apologise for their former behaviour, and realise that they need to grow up and make changes to their lives. This realisation gives me hope that deep down, beneath the bravado, most teens are basically decent and they just need reminding of this. I also know writing this as a Mum to two very young boys, that they too could end up being future wrong ‘uns and I will then be eating my words!!
I am linking this up to TheBoyandMe ‘s Show Off Showcase as one that should have done better
Thank you xx
Agree, agree and agree some more.
When I was young(!!) we were more than happy to go outside and play in the alley and “the square” as well called it and make up our own games and entertain ourselves. We felt no need to have to go and damage cars or property or businesses. Then as we got older, although I was a bore so am mostly referring to my brother and his friends now, we would hang out at a certain persons house each weekend and drink etc.
One of my biggest fears is that one or both of my sons take the wrong path and end up a trouble maker. It would break my heart. We are sensible parents and were both brought up well and hope to do the same with our children BUT I think we can only do so much. If they get in the wrong crowd at school then theres not a huge amount we can do.
I’ve seen that programme and my god they need a good clip round the ear. I just don’t get why some kids today are so bitter and thick. One hoodie actually said he was looting because of the taxes. He was a teen!! What taxes! Mental
Ha ha! Brilliant rant! There are a lot of lazy sods out there and it does make you want to give them a reet good kick up the ricker! As someone who works with 12-17’s however, I still think that the bad uns are a minority. The teenage angst usually dies off and a lot of teens are decent if you give them your time – sadly that doesn’t make good TV! But please keep ranting cause it makes me laugh đ x
Thanks for your comment and I am pleased my ranting was to your liking lol
I completely agree with you! As a teacher, it drives me mad that the children nowadays have no respect for authority, and it’s starting younger and younger. Now with all the bureaucracy that there is, they have no fear of authority, in fact it is the authorities who are in fear of them.
Blaming the Government is ignorant; our parents, grandparents, or even just us didn’t have these ‘young people’s services’ that they harp on about. Work in school, get good grades and get a job; that is the way to improve their life, not through a hand out.
Oh, you’ve got me started now!
Thanks for linking up to ShowOff ShowCase.
There are so many opportunities for young people now that there is absolutely no excuse for such appealing behaviour. The small village where I play golf has had loads of lottery funding and built new sports and play areas for the kids, yet we have had problems with them jumping the fences and vandalising the course. They are not bored as is always the excuse. Where exactly do the parents think they are?
I agree – good rant!
I think you’ve hit the nail on the head. It’s all about respect. An increasing number of people in this country seem to have no respect for their neighbours, for mankind in general.