Old Fashioned/Traditional Kids

Taualumna · #1 03-11-2004, 01:24 PM

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...tain_teenagers

Lady Pi Phi · #2 03-11-2004, 01:38 PM

Interesting, but how would they compare to kids in other western countries, or around the world?

valkyrie · #3 03-11-2004, 03:41 PM

Where did they find the kids?

One thing I've noticed about kids is that they often tend to agree with their parents until they're old enough to form their own opinions. By the time they're 15, they're just old enough to start learning and figuring out what they really think in an intelligent manner.

Of course kids that age are going to say that they they believe in marriage -- they're kids, and kids often crave stability and want their parents to stay married, or if their parents are divorced, they don't like it. It's also easy for them to say that harsher punishments would stop people from preventing crimes and that adult sentences are "too soft" -- they don't know any better.

Taualumna · #4 03-11-2004, 05:18 PM

I don't know, maybe their parents are die hard liberals or something. My parents aren't exactly conservative all the time! I'm probably more right wing than they are.

Tom Earp · #5 03-11-2004, 08:04 PM

OMG, this is almost to good to be True!

I never had Kids, I was one!

While I have only been in 5 European Countrys and little contact if any at all with the Kinders of said Countrys, that is not a reflection on the real life of as We Say the Colonies! They are much more Liberal there than we are!

Well, maybe, then go to Northern Ireland! Stupid Dicks, where if a Bomb Blows up, who might be there, KIDS!.. What a great upbringing!

sugar and spice · #6 03-12-2004, 01:51 PM

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Originally posted by valkyrie
Where did they find the kids?

One thing I've noticed about kids is that they often tend to agree with their parents until they're old enough to form their own opinions. By the time they're 15, they're just old enough to start learning and figuring out what they really think in an intelligent manner.

I agree -- "an average age of 15" isn't that old. I had completely different views on certain subjects (particularly drug use and marriage!) at 13 than I did at 17.

What I would like to see is the results of the 13-year-olds as compared to the results of the 17-year-olds and see what kind of change there is.