Are Teens Getting Worse?

No.

the mad ones are getting madder

Consequences and responsibility have diminished.

I know you can say it's wrong to laugh at others ... but you can't help but laugh at the male teenagers these days who clearly use hair straighteners. But have such a "dont mess with me, i am a hardman" swagger about them :pac:

Its only bad and reported when it happens on the northside. There was murder a couple of weeks in a park in Drimnagh, south Dublin but that wasnt on the news

Nah your right for the most part. I mean obviously there not all that bad plenty that don't go on that way but....

Society has gone to **** teenagers are growing up in a time when really anything goes. Loads of little loud mouth un educated dopes hanging around these days and when I say uneducated I don't just mean intelligence I mean they honestly have no idea how to act in public.

The people they look up to and copy ain't exactly helping either. It's unfortunately fairly normal to see girls 12 on wards walking the street in basically there jocks and fellas acting like there from the hood.

You're just getting older.

On the spot execution for chavs, too many people in the world these days maybe its time we knocked off the chit ones.

“Our youth now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for their elders and love chatter in place of exercise; they no longer rise when elders enter the room; they contradict their parents, chatter before company; gobble up their food and tyrannize their teachers.”

- Socrates

The Pheasant2 wrote: »

You're getting older

This quote is used all the time in After Hours. Problem is that Socrates never said or wrote it!

I've been teaching teenagers for about 10 years and I don't really see a difference in their behaviour except I would say that girls are far more streetwise than they were and definitely are much more into appearances than they were when it comes to hair and makeup and clothes. I would hate to be a teenage girl now because it's all about selfies and posing in photos for Facebook/Snapchat etc. I can even see it in my 9 year old cousin- an absolute dote of a kid but is already posing with pouts etc in photos. Could be harmless but I do think kids grow up too soon now. Especially girls.

I would also be fearful when it comes to kids growing up in areas where guns and drugs are part of daily life for their families, so then it becomes the norm for them as they grow up too- there seems to be more of that than before but in fairness that's just a casual observation on my behalf, I've no figures to back that up.

But as regards knowing the difference between right and wrong etc- I don't think teens have changed for the most part, we've just gotten older and less patient about their behaviour.