Have kids changed, or has society changed?

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"The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers."

AUTHOR: Socrates (469–399 B.C.)


What has changed?

Social media and the interconnectedness of us in general as a result of the internet. The deterioration of civil norms and distrust of accepted knowledge (i.e. science) has infitrated all levels of society and as children and adolescents have always been rebellious the increased communication and attachment to kindred spirits has very much been exacerbated by this.

Surely the amount of time kids are spending on the internet, is down to the parents lack of discipline. Kids seem to be given a 'blank cheque' to the amount of time they spend on it.

That saying "it takes a village to raise a child" is so true imo. All the adults that kids come in contact with, have a role to play in making sure that they are doing the right thing, and not getting into mischief.

There is a saying in Swahili that says "Asiye funzwa na mamae hufunzwa na ulimwengu" that basically means that children who are not taught by the mother, will be taught with the world.

(I was born, and brought up in South Africa, hence the reference to Swahili)