do teenagers have more attitude today?

Personally I think we have more attitude due to the fact people stereotype us and they all think that teenagers need to be feared, therefore we get big heads and get the impression that we can have whatever attitude we like an no one is going to stop us.

6 words “Parents are too scared to discipline” They see a kid on the TV with a bad attitude, slapping his Mum over the head, slamming her into walls, destroying the house because his Mum told him to snap out of his attitude when he was in one, and they think ‘Wow, my son/daughter has an attitude problem, if I say something to them, they might do that to me’ We scare our parents and we scare other people because we are unpredictable.

Some people can have an attitude, but it’s a provoked attitude, some people have an attitude that gets started by something they see, something someone else does. The people who have the defensive, rude, standoff, trying to be funny comedic attitude ALL the time are the insecure. A guy might like to listen to a female singer, but when asked does he like female singers/bands, he gets defensive ‘Err narh as if!! Female singers are sh*t!!!’ His insecure and being defensive but attacking something else. A girl gets called ugly by some random as a joke/dare ‘What did you call me?’ she has an insecurity about the way she looks, therefore she gets narky with anyone who dare tells her otherwise – she’s a standoff insecure person. The people who make jokes at other peoples expense are the immature, insecure and self conscious – if they attack others, no one is going to attack them in fear, they’ll be next to be picked on. A teacher asks a student to do something ‘No’, they say please and the student goes ‘FOR F*CK SAKES’ and gets up and slams everything around – insecure and doesn’t like being told what to do.

I think attitudes are provoked by certain things but I think the main problem is people’s insecurities, lack of discipline because people are too scared to cross an out of control teen. TV: Teens see other teens on TV getting away with things like break and enters, hold ups etc – so they go out and test their luck, they see a teen on TV giving sh*t to a homeless people – they go out and do that. They see someone on TV or at the shops getting pissed off because he didn’t get what he wanted, chucked a tanty so his Mum gave in – so they pick up that attitude. I was standing in the proximity of a girl fight/argument down the street a few weeks ago, and because I was standing near them and looking at them, I had a lady come up in my face and go “You’re ALL the F*CKEN same’ – she stereotyped and she feared what we were doing. So if we yell and scream in the street – people aren’t going to mess with us.

I think we all have attitudes but some are bigger than others due to lack of discipline, insecurities and big headed-ness. We are stereotyped not to be messed with, so we do whatever the hell we want, with whatever attitude we like. If we done that back in the day of black and white TV’s, the respect to call someone ‘Sir’ or ‘ma’am, we’d get slapped up the head. If we were do doublecross, backchat etc to someone back in the day, we’d get slapped up the head – do that these days, child abuse.

Maybe...

I guess all the latest things are having an "attitude", maybe they "think" it's "cool".

I'm not exactly sure what you mean by "attitude".

It could be, they think they know everything, or they're too cool for anything.

On the other hand, I see grade five kids still playing with stuffed animals.

I see other teenagers studying.

I see teenagers doing their chores with no frown.

Our world is all mixed and matched.

They act like they are older than they actually are. Mum: My teenage daughter is 16 going on 20

I'd say it's MORE teenagers have attitude today, not teenagers have more attitude.

I mean, look back into the twenties, flappers had attitude. So did the greasers. So did the flower children. And so do we.

yes concidering that it is tecnecally illegal for our parents to dicipline us and the schools dont do anything but warn us and put us in to detention. Our parents want to be our friend not our parent and its creating a generation of pain in the butt kids! We have no respect for our elders if you ask me its rediculous

Yes, and are far more sarcastic too. It starts when they start public school and gets worse with every year they go.

Yupp.

yes they think having an attitude is cool , its not ! its stupid and people get rapped and murdered from getting drunk ect from trying to be 'cool'

Yes they do. It's from the media.

obviously we have equal rights