What if you are a passenger?
Same thing I thought at first, it would suck if you were a passenger and could not text while someone else was driving. I just turned 19, had my drivers license since the day I turned 16 but never though of talking or driving on the phone because it was stupid and should be common sense not to talk or take your eyes off the road period
but I guess parents don't teach common sense anymore...
Being a parent of an 8 year old son, i would disagree with that comment. It's not that parents don't teach common sense, it's just that kids will be kids. The only difference is, today, kids have more "toys" and will do what they will with them until they learn their lessons.
Well, that's not actually the point i was trying to make. The point i was trying to make is that a lot of parents try to teach common sense, some succeed and some don't. I try my hardest to instill a good amount of "common sense" into my son, but kids will still mess up, it's life. I think the major problem in todays society is that fact that children are not children for as long.
What i mean by that is kids seem to "think" they are grown up LONG before they actually are. Throw in a lack of discipline (due to an ever-growning fear of being punished for punishing your kid) an endless supply of information (via the internet) and you have a recipe brewing for a teen who "knows" everything and thinks he is all grown up.
The difference is, while I thought I was all grown up, I still had a dad who would remind me (if circumstances warranted) that i was just a kid.
Another reasons is this medicated, lazy society we have become. Instead of parents owning up to their responsibilities, they medicate their children so they don't have to deal with them. "I don't know why little Timmy is running around, yelling, jumping, and acting like a kid, he must have ADHD, gotta take him to the shrink tomorrow and get him medicated". NO little Timmy is doing all those things for one reason, BECAUSE HE IS A KID! Kids shouldn't act like adults, they should act like children.
I believe some of this steams from the technology advances in recent time. Children spend more and more time inside (playing video games, surfing the web etc) and less time outside playing. Conclusion: parents are stuck around their kids all day long instead of only seeing them around meal times. When i was a kid, I was outside of the house every minute I could.
Who knows, if my mom had to put up with me every day, perhaps she would have medicated me as well
Sorry for the rant, this is just a touchy topic for me...
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