take your kids to childhood day!

hi mom - are you looking for me? yes? then you're a shitty mom, i'm a fucking BABY!

kids today are fucking awful. kids i know in real life included. they are mean, show no empathy, do not think before they speak/act, and are down right bratty and disrespectful.  but my first thought is where the fuck are the parents? and if these are the types of kid this generation of parents are breeding, i do not want to see what types of kid these kids produce. (you get that right?)

my first outrage over kids today started long before these most recent instances, but i just cant take it anymore. literally every other day is a story about a 12 year old murdering or a 9 year old beating their baby sibling to death. and it is not always an accident (http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/pre-teen-girls-stab-girl-12-planned-murder-plot-cops-article-1.1814357) this was a well thought out attack. which they learned from where? oh the internet, where kids get desensitized. 12 YEARS OLD! think about what you were doing at 12. i can say i wasn't plotting to stab anyone. i wasn't glued to my cell phone. i wasn't using hate slurs. i was outside, maybe at a friends house, maybe reading in my room, maybe at my grandmas. 

i hate the excuse that parents give today that if they don't get their kid an iphone or ipad or kindle or coach wallet or whatever it is, that their kid will be left out and feel bad. so let's instead breed these little monsters to just get whatever they want, in fact let them be on the same level as adults. while mommy/daddy checks their e-mail so does little 10 year old Sally, except mommy/daddy  have no idea what websites or e-mails Sally has signed up for because mommy/daddy swore up and down they'd monitor the phone, but alas, they do not. teach your kids that sometimes they don't get what they want and they certainly don't get what adults get and when they ask why, the answer is because I said so. (a childhood favorite of mine that i will certainly use on my kids one day) they will throw a tantrum now, but get over it later. maybe if kids stopped going to school with $800 phones, there would be less muggings or beat downs for these expensive items. just a thought.

i also love the excuse of "well i need to know where they are". how did my mom know where i was at 8 years old? um its part of the job! you're kid should not be anywhere that you don't know about. and if they're that young, they should always be with an adult, whose number you should have to call. or if you insist that a phone is a necessity to an 11 year old, does it have to be the Samsung galaxy 5? why can't you get a pay-per-use flip phone if the phone is solely to call you when they get to their after school destination? because let's face it, it's for more than that. it's to shut your kid up because you're sick of hearing them ask for a phone. you'd rather them just play with their apps then have to actually participate with them - because you are next to them doing the same thing.

now before everyone jumps down my throat. yes i love social media, my phone, and all the likes.  however,  i do not have any children. and i have said it time and time again that when i have a child - my smart phone becomes secondary or maybe even obsolete. (hell without children im ready to rid my life of it) and my child will certainly never possess a phone until at least high school, and even then you can bet your ass i wont be paying $120 a month for them to have a smart phone. (unless they want to work for it-negotiations will come into play) i shared a cell phone with my brother in high school, SHARED. he'd have it periods 1-4 and id have it 4-8. we'd get communal texts and have to relay messages. sure we complained, but we appreciated our separate phones that much more.

you have these young kids on the internet and they are so impressionable and they are using it like the dangerous tool it is. so who cares that two 20-something year olds smoked a joint and took a video? now tell an 11 year old girl that it was two members of One Direction and she's suddenly cutting herself and tweeting #CutFor1D (this is an actual hashtag that trended worldwide) why are they even on twitter?! where are their parents?! how did they see this video?! why do they know what a joint is?! good job with the monitoring you said you'd do parents. why is cyber bullying such an epidemic? because we are letting kids utilize the internet without any monitoring, 24/7/365! no child should have a phone, laptop, or ipad in their room at all times. are you doing homework at 3am or harassing little Peggy Sue into suicide? my favorite is the parents who say "not my kid" or when its too late, "but he was such a quiet good boy". 

i understand the need to "keep up with the times", but its out of control. and quite frankly annoying. what are these kids going to look forward to? when they reach their 20's and graduate college (if they aren't in jail for some heinous crime they learned on a you tube video) what will they look forward to about being an adult? better yet, what will they look back on and miss about being a child?

i miss being able to just run and play and not have a care in the world. ride my bike, scrape my knees, enjoy after school fresh air, hanging out with friends on my stoop, walking around the mall, prank phone calls, going to the pizzeria with my friends, swimming. i certainly don't miss apps from a cell phone. kids have the rest of their lives to stare down at a screen, so do them a favor (because it may be too late for you at this point, but not for them) - take it away now and tell them to go outside.

run as far away from adulthood as you can kids!