As the kids see it, these days..

I'm writing this article because of my neighbour's class act.. And what did he do?? A corpulent fella of 12, found in his bedroom wid an ORIGINAL ordered Playboy  magazine issue and empty pizza boxes ..
......... parents working overnight ...
When i start to interrogate , the lass comes up with :

"pizza is a lot like sex; when its good , its really good and when its bad, its still pretty good !"

Wide eyed , i thought to myself , "havent heard that before, the one i heard was - we live in an age, where pizza gets to your house before the police.. nevamind..."
I was supposed to walk out straight right ?? I did the same..

Kids these days… you can’t take ‘em and you can’t shove ‘em under a moving car. At this point in my life I should be saying, “Man, I wish I were a kid again.” But, you know what? I’m not. I don’t like what I’m seeing out there: Hoodlums, punks and brats… oh my !! 

When I was a kid, I’d come home from school, throw my bag away, eat an apple and then tear outside to play with friends. At dinnertime, my mom would signal me and my dad to come and eat. The family sat around the table and my dad asked, “So, what did you learn in school today?”
“Nothing,” would be my practised answer, while shoveling Mom’s casserole down my throat. Every so often i would slip and say “damn,” an infraction my father punished, by smacking the foul-mouthed offender on the back of the head.

Hmph! Nowadays, hitting a child like that could easily command a million dollar lawsuit !!

Dad’s other form of stifling bad behavior was to deliver a boot in the ass. Jeez, if I’d been born a couple of decades later, I could have slapped a lawsuit on him and pocketed a cool three million.

Talk about social change… These days there are kids who are losing their virginity by the age of 10! When I was 10, I was only losing my toys, or my pokemon cards ! When my friends and I tried to get the low-down on sex, we spent weeks tracking down a magazine, then took turns spending the night with the issue. Today, all a teenage boy has to do to see a naked woman is type “hottie” into a major internet search engine, and 60,000 porno sites pop up—among other things. Sex is everywhere. Kids probably know as much as their parents. Talk about being a grown up !

All too often, parents today want their kids to be their best friends. Punishment is usually something like: “You are forbidden to download any songs today.” Whatever happened to chores??? As I observe the lazy children out here, I’ve become convinced that I was suckered as a kid. Damn, why did I have to be burdened with learning life lessons such as Do a job right the first time, Take responsibility and Work hard and the rewards will follow? Why couldn’t my parents be my friends instead of, well, my parents? We could’ve drunk beers together, smoked dope and played snooker while the gardener did the yard work. phew !! i wish ..

These days, my neighborhood is filled with kids that I rarely see. My suspicion is that they are inside their houses playing video games, watching TV, instant-messaging friends or chit-chatting on IPhones bought by parents as a reward for taking out the garbage one time last year; and m stuck with a nokia x2 !!
Sometimes i wonder, if these are really the only kids who can get to level 9 on Nintendo Wii games..

TV is an abomination. Hard to believe it, but in my day, we only had three channels to choose from apart from our cartoon serials. Shows like "Kyun ki saas v kavi bahu thi" have beenn replaced width "Emotional atyachaar , and MTV GRIND " ( i love the latter one :))

Oh the inhumanity!

Going out with your family is considered a taboo nowadays.. even if you do go, what does your mom get to see ??? chicks wearing skimpy outfits, dats what.
Dat may turn you on, but you have to nod in approval and grin stupidly when your mom frowns and says " whatever happened to our culture ??"

Cell phones have become a necessity. Trust me, guys from my college ( oh! whom am i kidding?  i'm talking about anjan bhai) even go to the bathroom with a cell in his hand.. WHATEVER HAPPENED TO GOOD OLD HANDWASHES ??

Pocket money:
When was the last time you spent 40,000 bucks in a month ???
P.S - Ask my roomie.

And do i need to tell you about gals these days??!!
Lemme put it this way , remember Deepak Dobrial aka pappi from "Tanu weds Manu" ??
"aadmi jo he, wo marne ke baad hi bhoot hote he, lekin aurat chudeil ki chudeil hi rehti he"
Too true, isnt it ? ingenious really..

Who’s to blame? Everyone. We’re all part of the problem. We’ve allowed society to dictate how we raise our children. We believe psychological mumbo-jumbo that tells us spanking or yelling at our kids will damage them for life. We don’t force them to go out and play. We give them things merely because they asked for them. “No” means “maybe tomorrow.” I have a feeling that when they get older they’ll be wondering why the trees don’t have money on them.

I’m glad that when I was a kid I was a kid. Instead of the internet occupying my childhood, I went for a hike in the woods, played cricket,ate chocolates, visited my relatives, swam in the ocean or climbed into a tree fort with my friends. I could talk to strangers and I learned how to look someone in the eye.
ok ok... may be i dint "swam in the ocean" but still, i turned out fine !!

A piece of advice to the guardians of those little rascals, get a copy of "Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother" ..