Us adults, get exactly where you are coming from. You are young and the only thing you want right now is "to grow up." You want to know who your friends will be, what you will look like, and what you will become. When you are a kid, you take advantage of the time you get and worry about your future. Parents say, "don't worry about growing up its no fun, you just pay bills so have fun for now and live your life." Most of us at that age do not understand that concept and do not understand you have to work really hard to pay your bills.
We Did Not Have Cell Phones.
Our generation was so much better than the generation today, and I am forever grateful growing up when I did. We grew up with our friends, finding things to do outside. We did not text them, our parents got a hold of each other so that we could play. Some of us had PlayStations or Nintendo DS, but we had a limit of the time we even got to spend on them. You can barely walk around a school after class is dismissed and see a child that is NOT on their phones.
We Respected Everyone.
We grew up respecting everyone around us. There were some children that would get in trouble on occasions, but that wasn't all of the time. If we did not respect our peers or teachers, we would go home and get in a lot of trouble for that. Kids today, barely even respect their own parents. I hear kids speak disrespectfully to their parents and the parents blame it on the generation and the world that has come today, but I blame it on the fact that some parents do not discipline their children like they used to.
It Goes By Too Fast.
Children think that the time they get doesn't go by fast enough, but I beg to differ. The times that I got the opportunity to be in school and be surrounded by friends went by too fast. We didn't have to pay for bills, or even pay for our own textbooks. The time goes by fast when you make memories of a lifetime. Children want it to go by faster, but don't realize in the future they are going to miss everything that they have been taking advantage of. Its different when you take advantage of money, because you can always work and get more. Its different if you take advantage of time, because thats something you can't get back.
Media was different.
I see kids today listening to rap and repeating the words. When I was growing up, I wasn't allowed to listen to that music and I respected my parents enough not to listen to it. But today, kids will listen to the worst music and go to school and repeat everything they heard. They do not respect girls in the ways they should because of lyrics in the songs. TV shows and movies are the same way. Because of listening to this music and watching these shows, kids get a different idea of the way they should act and treat people.
You Won't Understand Hard Times
Its mentally hard for a child to understand the truth of what is going on in a hard time. Explaining the death of a close friend or family member is very hard, and hard for them to process through in their mind. A person's brain isn't fully developed until they are twenty-five years of age so they do not always fully understand things. If they have a dog that gets hit by a vehicle, they might keep thinking that they will come back, just because they don't understand fully how death works.
Being a kid is a lot of fun, and those times you will always remember. No responsibilities besides school, except what your parents expect out of you. You have time to spend with friends and family, and do not have to pay for anything since you aren't old enough to even work! Kids should enjoy the time they have, because growing up is fun but comes along with a lot of hard times and responsibilities, things you wouldn't understand when you are young.
