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Cleatus and Virginia were around back in the day too. Kids back in the day did stupid things too. There's nothing dumber about this generation than any other.
There have always been stupid people. Now the percentage is just WAY WAY higher than before.
To be fair like others have posted I also done a lot of stupid stuff as a kid.
It's a shame, but kids have always done risky, dangerous and stupid things and some wind up dead. Same goes for adults.
Yes, but instead of only hearing a couple things from a handful of friends, now they can learn about thousands of horrible dares from millions of stupid kids they don't even know and don't even care.
There have always been stupid people. Now the percentage is just WAY WAY higher than before.
To be fair like others have posted I also done a lot of stupid stuff as a kid.
I don't think the percentage is higher. But back then you wouldn't have heard if Jack in Alabama died playing hide and seek in an old refrigerator and died, or if Jimmy in Tuscaloosa died because he was standing in the back of his friend's pickup truck while his friend raced through a field and hit a bump, or Gary died sniffing airplane glue, or Sam jumped off the roof holding an umbrella (as a poster here did, but luckily didn't die).
The challenges are akin to A Christmas Story, " an internet version of "I triple, double-dog dare you" kind of thing, which resulted in Ralphie's tongue being stuck to a pole.
I don't think the percentage is higher. But back then you wouldn't have heard if Jack in Alabama died playing hide and seek in an old refrigerator and died, or if Jimmy in Tuscaloosa died because he was standing in the back of his friend's pickup truck while his friend raced through a field and hit a bump, or Gary died sniffing airplane glue, or Sam jumped off the roof holding an umbrella (as a poster here did, but luckily didn't die).
The challenges are akin to A Christmas Story, " an internet version of "I triple, double-dog dare you" kind of thing, which resulted in Ralphie's tongue being stuck to a pole.
I base the percentage being higher on people I know. I am friends with many doctors, lawyers, and business owners. They all have small families.
I owned a construction company for most of my adult life. The lower wage workers who for the most part have low wage jobs because of lack of intelligence had several kids, many of them with several different people.
Does this hold true with people you know in real life?
I base the percentage being higher on people I know. I am friends with many doctors, lawyers, and business owners. They all have small families.
I owned a construction company for most of my adult life. The lower wage workers who for the most part have low wage jobs because of lack of intelligence had several kids, many of them with several different people.
Does this hold true with people you know in real life?
That was the case years ago too, in fact more so because school wasn’t even required by law and many rural families had kids who only went through 6th grade or less. There was less nutrition in poor communities, less health care, no pre-natal care, no such thing as early intervention to catch kids up who have delays. Low intelligence people have been reproducing since the beginning of time. But I think on average IQs have risen over time overall, with the advent of all those things I mentioned above.
How many stupid stunts have followed the words “I dare you?” , through how many decades? I once watched a kid snort an entire Oreo, crushed up, at a party on a dare, and that was one of the lesser stunts.
Why would a 12 year old think a stunt is dangerous when he’s watched 1340 people do it on Tik Tok before him and not have any problems? I don’t think it makes him a low intelligence person. Foresight is not something most 12 year olds have, and it is something that comes from maturity and experience, not IQ points.
Why would a 12 year old think a stunt is dangerous when he’s watched 1340 people do it on Tik Tok before him and not have any problems? I don’t think it makes him a low intelligence person. Foresight is not something most 12 year olds have, and it is something that comes from maturity and experience, not IQ points.
And that is why it is essential that parents take parenting seriously.
I was stunned one day as I listened to a co-worker gently talk his kid through putting his sports uniform in the washer and turning it on because dad had forgotten. He was talking to him, telling him step by step so slowly, I was thinking it must be hard to be such a little guy and have to try to run the washer for the first time. I asked, after he hung up, how old was his little boy? Answer:......17! I laughed my head off. At 12, I washed, dried, folded, and put away my own laundry, as well as helping or doing every household chore we had when needed. At 15, I took care of my younger brother, got him up and off to school, and made sure homework was done, cooked dinner, did the wash, washed the dishes and cleaned the house, etc, for a week while my parents were out of town. Most kids today are relatively helpless.
I had my kids doing their own laundry as young teens. They all had jobs during their high school and college years, as well. Part of my child rearing strategy was to raise self reliant, resourceful adults. You can’t do that if you don’t insist they learn basic life skills.
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