Is it just me...

• BabyRS

  9 May 06, 03:08

  ... or are the teens 'bigger' and more daring nowadays?
  
  I've been noticing this as I go along my web travels.
  
  Physically, I wonder if its the (healthier) food and nutrient awareness that they are exposed to... or is it just the wide range of Wonderbra(tm) widely available now?
  
  As for provocative looks and poses - is it the internet culture, or has it just become the 'norm', and widely acceptable? Aren't they even remotely worried about their videos and suggestive poses being circulated on the net?
  
  We all know and realise that nothing is ever private on the www - even those accounts accessed only by passwords are accessible by the administrators of the site. Is it sheer nonchalance and a devil-may-care attitude that prompts these postings?
  
  We will never know who we're really dealing and communicating with online. Is it wise to take the risk just for a few "wow" comments? I hope and pray that these kids are streetsmart and wise enough to know what to do.
  
  Alas... the days of hopscotch, ring-around-a-roses, and hide n'seek have become a distant memory.
• laoda99

  9 May 06, 03:12

  they are bigger....becoz of macdonalds...
  
  more daring? hmmm....probably.....they have bfs/gfs at a younger age
• SGpork

  9 May 06, 08:01

  bigger?
  hmm..i find now a days..
  if they are big..very big..
  if they are small..very small..
  
  
  those sec sch kids..some i can see lower sec already 1.7 ++
  some 1.4 like that..
  
  daring..yes very ture
  especially the girls..now a days..
  
  
• the Bear

  9 May 06, 08:09

  well, these days, people are becoming a lot larger
  
  sideways too
  
  but i think this is because we're eating much better, eating more protein, eating more.. basically
  
  the other bit, where they become more "daring"... i would think that maybe it's not really more "daring" or anything.. i would say a lot of them are now more cynical and jaded...
  
  in the past, looking at the "technology" of the day, we have done the same things as the young 'uns are doing with the technology of today, coz we did "modify" our toys, and all that by adding more rubber bands to the catapults.. you know.. greasy kid's stuff
  
  however, then, maybe it was a more innocent time, a time when we didn't really care about how "cool" (read cynical) we were, and we could safely look at things in wonder, slack-jawed and in awe..
  
  today, it would be "uncool" to be in awe, to look at things in wonder, to want to know and pursue knowledge with enthusiasm... i don't know why... they would rather "look cool" and look at everything with disdain and dismiss things that are new... and would say the most terrible thing like "boring" or "sian", as if the world was there to entertain them while they sneer at everything...
  
  so in order to, like you say, illicit a "wow" from peers who are as cynical and jaded as they are, they would do silly things... or just to "feel something" because they have become apathetic, they have become jaded themselves, they would attempt something which is, on hindsight, stupid...
  
  it is a worrying trend...
  
  maybe it is the pressures of being young these days where curiousity and the joys of learning something new is being stifled by the jackhammering in "education"...
  
  mayhap we should relook our "education" and try to inspire in the youth the joys of discovering new things, new knowledge..
  
  perhaps, there is a need to change the parents' mindset in order to stop the parents from hothousing the children by innundating them with tuition classes every day... and let their children have a proper childhood...
  
  so, baby, to answer your question, no.. it's not just you.. the youth are becoming physically larger, but maybe it's the age we live in, they have become more cynical, more apathetic and a lot more jaded...
  
  alas...
• ShrodingersCat

  10 May 06, 19:15

  I find it very amusing everytime I get huffy with teenagers to remember this:
  
  "The young are passionate, irascible, and apt to be carried away
  by their impulses, especially sexual impulsesÂ…
  in regard to which they exercise no self-restraint.
  They are changeful too,
  and fickle in their desires,
  which are as transient
  as they are vehementÂ…
  If the young commit a fault,
  it is always on the side of excess
  and exaggerationÂ…
  They carry everything too far,
  Whether it be their love
  Or hatred or anything else.
  They regard themselves as
  omniscient."
  
  Aristotle
  Ethica Nicomachea 300 BC
  
  Well.. things havent changed all that much in over 2500 years. We still think the youths are.... more.... etc etc.
  
  Not sure about the bigger part though. Aristotle didnt say.