Doesn’t it bother you how kids have stuff they shouldn’t have?
Question by Adrianna: Doesn’t it bother you how kids have stuff they shouldn’t have?
These 11 year olds in my school have Facebook and on there they swear, try to act cool, copy paste like pages and brag about everything they get. Their statuses are always:
“I got Blackberry Bold/Torch”
“I got Macbook pro”
“I got Iphone 4″
“I got a Vaio”
“I got a Nikon SLR camera”
First of all them having Facebook concerns me. When I was 11, I had a skipping rope. I’ve seen so many people younger than them having Facebook too and always updating statuses using their Blackberries. The youngest I’ve seen would probably be like 8 or 9.
I’m 17 and I got a Facebook when I was 15. Up till today I don’t have an Iphone or a Blackberry or a Mac. I’ve had 1 laptop which I use for school, a cell phone and 2 Ipods (replaced my first one ’cause it stopped working and they said it couldn’t be fixed). Those are stuff I actually need, whether for school or for my safety. The Ipod is something I got on my birthday.
I don’t have any of the stuff these kids have. Why do they wanna grow up so badly? I’d do anything to be a kid again and have fun.
According to who?! Who the hell has an Ipad, Blackberry and Macbook at the age of 10?! I’m expressing an opinion here and I am absolutely entitled to it. It doesn’t matter if I’m not paying for it, I just feel sorry for the parents that are.
And I’m not jealous, if I wanted that stuff I could go buy them, I have enough money saved up. I just choose not to, ’cause it’s absolutely ridiculous to waste my money buying all that when the stuff I already have can carry out those tasks.
@Karen – That thing about expressing opinions wasn’t even directed to you. I’m not jealous of an 11 year old. They shouldn’t have those things because they don’t need it and it’s a waste of money. They shouldn’t have a Facebook ’cause they don’t know how to use it. They can’t fix their privacy settings and have a ton of pictures and personal information open to everybody. That’s what I meant.
Well actually I’m almost 17. And I know these 11 year olds because of my friends and their younger siblings and also ’cause I used to go to a very small school. It’s not like I’m looking at profiles of people I don’t know.
Having a cell phone at 11 is fine by me. Having 2 Blackberries, Iphone 4, Macbook and Vaio at the same time isn’t. I don’t think anybody at the age of 11 needs all of that.
Well actually I’m almost 17. And I know these 11 year olds because of my friends and their younger siblings and also ’cause I used to go to a very small school. It’s not like I’m looking at profiles of people I don’t know.
Having a cell phone at 11 is fine by me. Having 2 Blackberries, Iphone 4, Macbook and Vaio at the same time isn’t. I don’t think anybody at the age of 11 needs all of that.
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Answer by Emma
yeah this really annoys me. also a bunch of little kids have iPads too. until I was 12 all I had was barbies and American girl dolls. parents are just really spoiling their kids.
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“Doesn’t it bother you how kids have stuff they shouldn’t have?”
Shouldn’t have? According to who? You? Are you raising those children? Are you paying for it? No?
Then keep silent(It’s hard not to swear here, lol)
“I just choose not to, ’cause it’s absolutely ridiculous to waste my money buying all that when the stuff I already have can carry out those tasks.”
Hey, don’t get me wrong, I totally agree that it’s a waste of money bigtime. The thing is things like you said are CLEARLY stupid.
But how do we tell what is enough and what is to much? Who’s gone judge that?
I mean, my parents got money big time, hell I’m 18 and driving a nice BMW cabriolet and such. Not even paying gas for it.
But I get this stuff. I do agree that wasting money on these things is stupid. I would have been happy with a 10000 euro second hands car but NOO, he bought me that.
So I agree with most here you can blame the parents :p.
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LikeDislikeJealousy is ugly.
you dont fix starvation by stealing another mans food.
Life is not about having what you want, but wanting what you have.
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LikeDislikeI wasn’t allowed a cell phone. Now it’s a must. Times are changing and when you’re older you wont even care that you didnt have those things.
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LikeDislikeYes. Kids today have way more than they should. I live in Miami and when I see a 5 year old with Gucci sunglasses and a Coach bag it makes me sick. It makes me even more sick when I see the student parking lots at the local high school full of BMW’s.
It’s no wonder why today’s society is so entitled. Parents are to blame.
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LikeDislikeEh, if they can afford it it’s their business. Would I buy something that expensive for my kid? No, but she would be welcome to save up for it herself. I don’t like spoiled kids, but I’ve seen well-mannered kids who shop at Neiman Marcus and brats who shop at Kmart.
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LikeDislikeTimes are definitely a-changin’
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LikeDislikeWith 16,000 kids dying a day from starvation a day, I think we all have too much. That’s just how it is, and probably will remain. Just be happy you were luckily enough to be born in a developed country in to a good family. I was born in Watts, I used to think I had it bad until we visited family in Mississippi. VERY poor area. Dirt road poor. A saying “I thought I had it bad with no shoes until I met a man with no feet.” Anyways, I think it’s pretty messed up how nations like our own use up 80% of the worlds natural resources. “When we have so much, should any child, be homeless?”-Laura Nyro Be Aware.
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LikeDislikeMy brother has a facebook. He’s 8. But that’s because our nearest relatives live 3hrs away so he uses to talk to our family and occasionally a few friends. And he spends little time on it, only when he wants to talk to cousins or something. And I supervise it for him, or my mom does.
I get your point about the facebook though, when they’re swearing or trying to be cool.
My brother and I also have Ipods. I have an Itouch for music, I love music and the games keep me amused when we go to visit family (We go regularly so when you’re sat in a car for 3 hours it gets pretty boring because sketching isn’t exactly possible for me, and my brother doesn’t know how to sit still) and he uses his for a few songs and the games. I only got my 1st laptop a few weeks ago for school. I always just used the family computers. We both have phones for safety reasons and also for contacting family. My brother also uses his VERY basic phone to call friends to say, hey we’re going up the fields in the dune buggies at 7 or whatever, it usually just sits there. Oh and we have portable DVD players. I think it’s pretty stupid when you see little kids with expensive phones and cameras and such. Kids should just be kids. I think my brother and I do have a great combination of Kid stuff & technology though. I’m not your typical 13 year old who texts 24/7. I actually don’t text barely at all. I usually just text about homework or asking someone if they want to come over. And we watch little tv too. We spend lots of our free time Driving dune buggies and quads through fields or playing sports, so…. And I also draw and I like Photography & filming.
Kids are always going to want to grow up and be cool.
I think it’s fine once they don’t go too far, or once they don’t bankrupt their parents by getting them to buy all this expensive stuff.
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LikeDislikeI agree with you, I think it is stupid, my daughter got her first mobile when she went to high school, but it was one of those phones what wouldn’t break easily and then she gained my trust and for last x-mas i got her the blackberry curve she was 13 then. I have 6 kids and theres no way I would spend that much money on one thing, except when they get older like my oldest who is now 14. We have a family computer and laptop. There’s no need for them to have there own one. I also think its stupid that they would spend so much money on someone so young and they could easily break it.
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LikeDislikeThe 10 year old kid across the street from us has his own Facebook page, but my son’s best friend got a Nintendo DSi for his 8th birthday. My coworker gave her 4 year old a Nintendo DSi for his birthday.
What this comes down to is uninformed parents. These are parents that don’t watch the news, don’t read articles about the dangers of materialism, etc. I think they do it so that their kids’ friends will think they’re cool. It’s almost like buying friends. Or these parents are simply just trying to ‘buy’ their own kids’ obedience/gratitude. Either way, I think there is great value in teaching kids that less is more.
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LikeDislikeFeel bad for the parents? No. They are well aware of what they are buying their kids, it’s their own choice.
Every generation will have parents that purchase their kids “the latest and greatest” item. Our world has become so high tech, and we are always seeing younger and younger kids with the new cells and whatever else they come out with.
As a parent you decide what you will give your children. I don’t pay much attention to what everyone else is doing, I just know that my 9 year old will not be on facebook any time soon. If she wants to talk to people she can use the phone.
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LikeDislikeThere’s more than one way to spoil a child, and materialism is only one way of doing that. Spoiling in general is destructive.
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LikeDislikeWhy “shouldn’t” they have these things? At 11 years old they are certainly old enough to work them safely so there is no reason why they should not be allowed. An 11 year old “should not” have alcohol.
Also, why do you care what kids 6 years younger than you have? When I was 17 I couldn’t care less about what 11 year olds were up to. Of course, I was 17 in 1995 so perhaps if I could follow a bunch of 11 year olds on facebook back then I would have also been jealous of them.
“I’m expressing an opinion here and I am absolutely entitled to it.” -> sure you are! And I am entitled to mine which is – 17 year olds have no business being jealous of 11 year olds.
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LikeDislikeWhy are you looking at the profiles of 11 yr olds? You are 17.
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LikeDislike1. You are 17, why do you care about what a bunch of 11 year olds have?
2. No it doesn’t really bother me because it doesn’t reflect on how the child acts.
Think about it… having a cell phone is now becoming more of a _need_ rather than a thing to flash around. Times are changing… Things are becoming more techno. If your kid isn’t “in the know” of technology, chances are they will be left behind. Because think about it when you have a cell phone, instead of calling and talking to people you are now… Texting them.
I am 14 and I have had a facebook since I was 11. Why? Because it is how I kept in contact with my friends. They didn’t always answer their house phone, and the house phone numbers change and they/I lose mines/theirs. But one thing that didn’t change, the fact that I could always talk to them on facebook. So I can understand why they would have a facebook when they are 11. To keep in contact with their friends.
I don’t really see how it bothers you since you arent the one who buys them for teh 11 year olds. Maybe it just doesn’t bother me because I’m 14.
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