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Youth of today

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CarerWhoCaresTooMuch · 21/02/2023 00:25

What is it with them.?? Whilst I know I’m going to sound like my gran probably get a roasting too but I just don’t get them. Im working in retail and what I’m seeing these days just disgusts me. Foul mouthed , Cocky , vaping youths who think it’s their absolute right to steal , trash the shops and even abuse anyone who would question any behaviour, I know kids will be kids and it’s part of ‘Growing up’ , yes times have changed but what the hell has actually happened? They genuinely don’t give two monkeys about what they say or do, There’s no respect , common curtesy , manners . Some of the mischief as it was put to me just this evening ‘ a bit of entertainment’ is actually criminal damage , disturbing the peace . They don’t even care if they are on camera , seems like there’s nothing to stop them.
Yes I know there are also some absolute cracking youngsters out there too.
I’d love to know what the parents of these youngsters actually think and how they would feel if they knew what their child was up too. Obviously things were different when I was growing and I know the world we live in now is also very different, so I guess I’m just wondering how everyone else feels and what they think.

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DdraigGoch · 21/02/2023 19:08

Sep200024 · 21/02/2023 13:00

So which generation was it that killed off the tightly knit communities??

Was it today’s teenagers?

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Nowt to do with me. It's irrelevant anyway, the point was that it was fine for kids to roam about the area when neighbours could to a degree fill in the void left by the lack of parental oversight.

Sep200024 · 21/02/2023 22:32

DdraigGoch · 21/02/2023 19:08

Nowt to do with me. It's irrelevant anyway, the point was that it was fine for kids to roam about the area when neighbours could to a degree fill in the void left by the lack of parental oversight.

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That’s awesome!

”What we are really missing here, is a good old community where everybody plays their role”

”Ah, yes. I see. Where do you think things have gone wrong on that score?”

”Nowt to do with me!!”

😭😭

DdraigGoch · 22/02/2023 07:18

Sep200024 · 21/02/2023 22:32

That’s awesome!

”What we are really missing here, is a good old community where everybody plays their role”

”Ah, yes. I see. Where do you think things have gone wrong on that score?”

”Nowt to do with me!!”

😭😭

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Well as other posters have said, the problem started in the eighties. I'm not that old.

Sep200024 · 22/02/2023 07:24

The irony is amazing though

MrsSkylerWhite · 22/02/2023 08:35

There was generally more respect around. You didn't assault doctors and paramedics.

You didn't hear of youths drinking in parks and looking for trouble and then stabbing someone to death if they intervened. It didn't happen.“

Nonsense. I was brought up in SE London in the early 60s. There was an estate where ambulances wouldn’t go for fear of attacks. The fair at Brockwell
Park - full of families with young kids - was closed down more than once because of violent gang fights, with stabbings and the occasional shooting.

Ten years before that, there were huge gang fights in places like Brighton every time the sun came out, with hundreds of mods and rockers battling each other with chains and knives.

ArseInTheCoOpWindow · 22/02/2023 09:23

*There was generally more respect around. You didn't assault doctors and paramedics.

You didn't hear of youths drinking in parks and looking for trouble and then stabbing someone to death if they intervened. It didn't happen*

A kid was stabbed to death in a very very posh park near me in the late 80’s.

l was a teacher in the early 90’s. Lots of knife crime. 2 teens killed.

Catspyjamas17 · 22/02/2023 09:43

I remember in the 90s and 00s the moral panic then was about youths TWOCing cars and joyriding. Those were the days.

bellabed · 26/02/2023 04:18

CarerWhoCaresTooMuch · 21/02/2023 00:25

What is it with them.?? Whilst I know I’m going to sound like my gran probably get a roasting too but I just don’t get them. Im working in retail and what I’m seeing these days just disgusts me. Foul mouthed , Cocky , vaping youths who think it’s their absolute right to steal , trash the shops and even abuse anyone who would question any behaviour, I know kids will be kids and it’s part of ‘Growing up’ , yes times have changed but what the hell has actually happened? They genuinely don’t give two monkeys about what they say or do, There’s no respect , common curtesy , manners . Some of the mischief as it was put to me just this evening ‘ a bit of entertainment’ is actually criminal damage , disturbing the peace . They don’t even care if they are on camera , seems like there’s nothing to stop them.
Yes I know there are also some absolute cracking youngsters out there too.
I’d love to know what the parents of these youngsters actually think and how they would feel if they knew what their child was up too. Obviously things were different when I was growing and I know the world we live in now is also very different, so I guess I’m just wondering how everyone else feels and what they think.

The only difference is years ago kids weren't on camera etc, now they don't get a chance .

Undertheoldlindentree · 26/02/2023 04:29

Nimbostratus100 · 21/02/2023 06:22

The vast majority of young people are lovely

The badly behaved ones are upsetting and intimidating, but no worse than the youth of any other generations

Exactly! 🙌

vera99 · 28/02/2023 16:40

Catspyjamas17 · 22/02/2023 09:43

I remember in the 90s and 00s the moral panic then was about youths TWOCing cars and joyriding. Those were the days.

70s and 80s was glue-sniffing and lighter fuel and gobbing at punk gigs.

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