Why do children feel like it's cool to be rude and obnoxious?

Because they were raised by wolves! Parents pawn their children off to tv's, mp3 players. and so forth and dont raise them as they should.

I think it is a mixture of those three things you have named, which I will get to in a moment.

The other issue which you didn't name is that the children who are obnoxious were not trained properly by their parents. The fact is many parents lack the proper guidance. The children are not taught what happens when they disobey authority so they grow up thinking it is ok to act rude to those that have the authority over them.

Now as it relates to the three issues you briefly touched on, the fact is they all play an important role. Television shows do influence children's behavior. They mock what they see automatically. They mirror their television role models. Music plays into this too. It can motivate them to be rude because they hear songs that actually encourage this behavior. And of course children get it from their peers. Overall its a terrible issue and children are obnoxious because they aren't taught and because they mimic what they see. They also want attention which is apparent from their lack of training. They act out based on what they did not get at home.

A lot of my friends ever since grade school are so sweet to their parents when they are alone, however, whenever their friends come into the picture they turn into complete jerks.

Basically as you mature, your interests lay less on impressing your parents or guardians and more on creating closer ties with your friends. It's a developmental stage in life that almost every kid is going to go through and the age usually starts at 8 years old.

However, some children are just raised snobby and learn from their parents (who also act obnoxious) how to act. Whenever you see a young child and see their unacceptable behavior, you must usually look for the parents and see how they are influencing the child.

As the child looks up to their parents they will absorb everything into their minds of what their parents do and assume that if their parents can - why can't they? Lack of discipline causes out of control kids, too much discipline leads kids to rebel, and it's just being a responsible parent by finding that perfect balance in between to raise what you would call a decent behaved kid.

It's the thing to do.

You are cool if you treat someone else uncool. And the best time to bust their chops is right in front of their friends so they look like a douchebag. Trust me, I was this douchebag at one time, and if someone else made me look like a douchebag in front of my friends, I would think twice about it.

It is for attention, and that is it. Remember, as a youngin, popularity is all about how big of an idiot you can be. It is like that until high school/ early college, then they realized that they have gone nowhere trying to impress others who do not really give a crap any more. You may have got the laughs but not the knowledge, set them straight while they are young and you will be doing them a favor. If they do not want to change, the joke is on them.

Children before 7 are in their prime for learning. It's a psychological reference called Critical Learning Period which is early in a child's life, usually up to the age of 5. The best form of teaching is leading by example and children misconceive what's right and wrong. It's not just media but how children are conditioned by parents and other figures in their lives. My parents were strict with etiquette and politeness, I was always afraid of getting slapped, now I get tons of comments from my friend's parents because of my politeness.

a lot of the time it is just the desire for attention. there is some influence from tv shows among other things but the biggest one comes from their friends. kids will often do things like this to gain attention and sometimes gain acceptance among their friends

They only act that way because it is like, "Look at me, I'm above the law--I can act out all I want and no one can stop me." If you just start punishing consistently, they won't act out because they will have the embarrassment of getting dealt with vs. the high of getting away with it.

Acting this way allows the children to feel empowered and important.

Well 95 percent of the time its because they learned it from their parents Sorry....

most of the time its just for attention. other times to impress people and be funny. or it can just be the way they are. who knows? but they eventually get over that stage. http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Ai3F8...