Have kids changed, or has society changed?

[Lilith7]

I don't think kids can change in general. They are all born the same way, innocent and carefree. With time, they start to attract energy from the people around them, and their behavior changed. So, the right answer is that society has changed and the mindset people have our days.

Being born the same way - ignoring the reality that every birth is different - doesn't mean all kids are the same. Every child born is first a product of a different combination of genes, and then subject to the conditioning and experiental learning that comes with the treatment it receives from birth onwards - which again is completely individual to that child.

One of the major lessons of parenting is the slow dawning realisation that that gorgeous little bundle of humanity we welcomed into our lives is actually not a Mini Me, but a unique and very different person to the one we dreamt of. And every now and then, that new person is a right little sod we'd happily trade for a nice biddable Golden Retriever...

OR send in for a sex change.. as I may have possible remarked a time or three as my delightful lads were just about surviving their dire teenage years.

I refrained from that & strangling the little dears - & it was all worth it, when I finally became a gran. And then later was able to witness them dealing with their very own teenagers.