Parenting: Today's Teens

It happens to us all who are still stuck with the ‘old fashioned’ morals of times long since past. As we take our children to school or drive to the grocery store there is usually a kid or two that your child knows. It was absolutely amazing to me when I saw a girl come up to my son just the other day to say hello and give some ‘opinions’ about a teacher at their school… her hair was dyed and streaked, she had a cell phone in her hand, acrylic nails were place professionally on her fingers, the language that came from her mouth was snotty and sarcastic not to mention a few vulgar words found their way easing from her lips and she was by herself in the busiest part of town alone. The little girl was in the third grade. It struck me right then and there that children are so much more adultified than my generation and I am only in my twenties. 

After seeing this in elementary school children I decided to see what the older children thought on this subject and what I found opened my eyes to a much larger problem that we all have dismissed as an ‘evolving’ society. I sat down in an interview with an average California High School student who lives in Rocklin, and I must say her responses were deeply focused.
She would rather not be named for reasons that will soon become clear, as her views that will be shared throughout this article belong to, and are embraced by, most teens in the Rocklin/Roseville area. This young lady goes to the new Liberty High and has many friends from Roseville who share in this common way of life and thought. Our two cities are becoming a part of an alarming statistic and most parents don’t even know it yet.