Spoiled Children [Discussion]

See, I honestly have no idea what a seven-year-old would do with a laptop, let alone a cell phone. If I had that kind of stuff when I was seven, I'd just lose it all the time and whatnot. (I'm bad enough at keeping my cell phone safe now as it is... and I'm sixteen!)

Parents who're like that just sicken me since their kids normally get so... irritating. They aren't doing them a favour. In addition to the lack of knowledge about spending money wisely, kids like that will probably just get shunned by their peers. For example, if one kid has everything and won't shut up about it, their friends will just get annoyed and start to ignore them out of jealousy or something like that. x_x;

...er, had more to say, but have to water plants. <_<
 
YO!well im very spoiled!by anyone for me,my parents,my friends,my boos,anyone.i dont think its a bad thingi got my 1st cell phone when i was um lets see 9 or 10.it was fun.
 
$ACE$ said:
YO!well im very spoiled!by anyone for me,my parents,my friends,my boos,anyone.i dont think its a bad thingi got my 1st cell phone when i was um lets see 9 or 10.it was fun.
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Yeah, sure. And you're really 21... Yeah right...

I wonder what does a kid look like with a 12 inch long, 3 feet thick black box with a 3 feet antenna sticking out of that monstrosity look like.... ;)
 
I supposed I'm one of those teenagers that get spoiled a fair bit. >_<

When I was younger I never used to have any of those great things like mobiles, computers or even a CD Player. It was tough on me since other kids had stuff that I could only dream of.
But when I got to the age of 12 I started to get the things that I really wanted, mostly as rewards for my high standard work in my classes and I suppose since that day the gifts have never stopped.

I get say, three DVDs and a book every week if I'm lucky and I suppose that's starting to make me feel bad for other kids that might not have things that I now have.
So everytime I get a gift I try to somehow give money and food to places that can then give those things to people that need it.
It makes me feel a lot better if I do that.

And now I'm even trying to save up for my own things, that why my mother won't have to buy me things all the time. =P
 
Niko said:
Yeah, sure. And you're really 21... Yeah right...

I wonder what does a kid look like with a 12 inch long, 3 feet thick black box with a 3 feet antenna sticking out of that monstrosity look like.... ;)
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You must remember that, at that time, that sort of things represent a piece of advanced technology O_o .

Anyway, I don't think that I have been spoiled much. Maybe a few treats here and there, and some toys from my aunt (although one of them was completely destroyed by my uncle just after I received it... I WILL NEVER FORGIVE YOU FOR ETERNITY SIXTH UNCLE!). However, if you want me to say, I would say that children in developed and advanced-developing cities (such as Singapore, Tokyo, New York, Sydney, London, Shanghai, Taipei and the like) are getting more and more spoiled. I'm not too sure about other cities, but in Singapore, children are spoiled to the point where they behave like emperors and empresses. They get spoiled on all fronts; they have things like branded clothes, the latest mobile phones (some even show it off by wearing it like some sort of tag on their front), expensive food, comfortable, oversized cars, and maids tagging along with them, serving their each and every demand (even helping them with basic things like clothing, food, and such). Their parents don't seem to care either, just spoiling them more and not caring about how they behave in public. They break every rule in the book about basic etiquette in puiblic. Pushing, shoving, queue-jumping, seat-hogging (on public transport for those without their own "personal limousine service"), bicker and complain about everything, have no patience, and expect everything to be delivered in an instant or they will make Mount Everests out of it. I do wonder if those parents do know who to raise a child properly. I shudder to think of what could happen to them when they step out into the real world and/or go into the military service (military service is compulsory here for all men at age 18 >.< ).
 
o.o I agree with younger children having mobiles to a certain extent, for example, in special circumstances. For example, when I moved from Nova Scotia to my current city, Toronto, it was a huge change. Toronto is much bigger than any city I'd ever lived in and we had to spend the first one or two weeks in the downtown core before we could move into our house. My mom was worried what might happen to me if I got lost, so they got me my phone for Christmas that year. Now I don't use it for emergencies or anything, since I'm older, but really that's all I had it for before now.

So, I think mobiles are okay for kids to have if they have overprotective parents or just for emergencies, etc. It's when you get them really amazing, overpriced phones that are completely unnecessary for a child that bugs me. o_O;

I lost my train of thought midway through that post and possibly even my main point. XD Oops.
 
Sykora said:
IPod at 6?! No way, beyond the line. What about the age 10 cellphone thing?
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i've seen some people with a cell phone at age 10 I don't have one I'm not spoiled
 
Well I am kind of spoiled but not to much.

I have a car but I sharing it with my aunt who lives with us (It was her turn to wash it this week, mines is next week). We don't drive it much because niether one of use have a permit/linesce. The car was give to us by my parents to use as pratice and the car is used (1996?). It ok but I not complaining because once I can drive legally then that means not more rides back home when I stay late at school (Sweet!!) The thing is that I and my aunt have to pay for the insurance.

I have not Ipod, MP3, or cellphone. I have to borrow my dad's when ever I go on school trips.

I work to earn the money I have. Sometimes my dad gives me money if I ask him because I need it for trips or I really need something and it not for fun. My Xbox and Gamecube was give to me as gives but the games I had to buy with my money. I brougth my own GBA and it games. I really want a Pokemon E but I don't have the money so what I may do is buy it used. I know who hard life is and how fast money can go.

What gets me mad is how spoiled kids can be because of their parents. My job is to cut yards with my dad. (decent pay I guess since he and my mom do pay the bills) I hate it that I have to cut a yard and I see some 10-18 year old kid outside or inside and they not cutting this yard. I been cutting yards since i was 9 and here is this kid who can't spend 30 min to cut his own yard. What does he do that make him so tired to cut his own yard. There are many ways to spoil a child then buying them stuff.

My brother I think is being spoiled and he is about 3. But he getting punishment too. My mom bried him to be toiet train by promising him a power ranger toy. (A simple one too.) He got train in a few months. The thing that gets me mad about him is when we at a store and he sees a toy like batman or something and he wants it but my mom does get it for him and sometime she does. I young and got a long way to go.

I little midget at 6 does not need an Ipod/CD player (unless it for medical reasons). I taller midget kid at 10 does not need a cell phone. A teen at 15 or so kind of need a car and cellphne but they need to pay for the thing and pay the mineuts. If the cell and car was given to them then the kid needs to pay the insureance and the cell bill. An Ipod is to much for a parent to buy for their kid (unless the kid is like 30 and he left the house and has his own hause and career.) The Ipod, if the kid really want want it, they buy it themself.

Like my mom and dad say, "You areciate somthing more if you buy it yourself." It is true. I brougth my GBA with my own money and I don't want to get rid of it for the DS. (I still going to get the Ds but I buying it unless my parents get it for my b-day and I don't know. Dobt it thougth.)
 
Lightning said:
o.o I agree with younger children having mobiles to a certain extent, for example, in special circumstances. For example, when I moved from Nova Scotia to my current city, Toronto, it was a huge change. Toronto is much bigger than any city I'd ever lived in and we had to spend the first one or two weeks in the downtown core before we could move into our house. My mom was worried what might happen to me if I got lost, so they got me my phone for Christmas that year. Now I don't use it for emergencies or anything, since I'm older, but really that's all I had it for before now.

So, I think mobiles are okay for kids to have if they have overprotective parents or just for emergencies, etc. It's when you get them really amazing, overpriced phones that are completely unnecessary for a child that bugs me. o_O;

I lost my train of thought midway through that post and possibly even my main point. XD Oops.
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Yeah...see...I'm rarely more than two feet behind my mother so the chances of me getting lost are very slim. I don't like going off on my own so whenever we would head downtown I was always safe. Still am, went to the mall today. Think I went off my own? No... I went to the Bay and Gap and Sears for several hours, even though its no fun at all and I'd rather be at EBGames. I dunno, I'm weird like that. I don't like being on my own. I have no use at all for my phone, and didn't really want it. I just have it (and the only reason I agreed to it) was in case of any emergencies at highschool or at home (since I stay home a lone a bit now since I'm older). I honestly cannot think of any other reason for me to have it. I'm outside of Toronto, perhaps if I was living in Toronto I'd be wandering around on my own more and at a younger age (although I would certainly hope not), then yeah I think a mobile phone would be must (although I don't think kids should be wandering around on their own until 18. It's a parents job to protect you, if they just let you roam free then their doing a lousy job and they shouldn't put their trust in a phone.)
 
I'm spoiled, but not as bad as some people. o_o;

I don't do chores or anything, I mean, I clean my room when it needs it, and straighten my bed and stuff, but nothing else really. I've got a mp3 player and this computer in my room. But this computer's not new, my parents found it a pain to have me in their room on it all the time. XD So, they moved it in here. The only recent thing they bought me was a new CD burner, but that was only cuz the one I had was ancient, and died. XD I buy my own stuff almost all the time, my grandma DID get me a CD a few weeks ago for no apparent reason, but yeah, she just does that. XD I'd probably appear spoiled as much money I carry around most of the time, cuz I hoard all my money together and only buy things like once every 2-3 weeks or so. I'm telling ya, I still had my birthday money from last year in my wallet until about April. XD

But yeah, I know a lotta people around here, especially girls, that have cell phones, that are younger than me. I don't need one, I don't even want one. No one calls me anyway. XD A car I guess is okay, I'm getting one, but it's a 1988 Pontiac Grand-Am with about 210,000 miles on it. So...yeah. XD Feel free to comment and laugh at my future car. XD
 
I'm spoiled to an extent, but I do have my fair share of the house work. I SCRUB the bathroom every weekend, wash the dishes on a regular basis, sometimes (very rarely) I'll get to wait a day, but only if there isn't very many dishes... I have to vacuum the house and do outside work (mowing, pulling weeds out of mother's garden).

I do have a cell phone, only to keep in contact with my parents (mom can call me whenever she pleases if I'm over at my dad's house, and vice versa) I have my own tv in my room, that I can take with me to college, I have a PS2, er, my stepdad's, but its in my room.. A GBA SP, regular GBA, N64, PS (also stepdads) and a NES + games for all of them. However, I didn't get them all at once, I've been working on all that for 15 (16 in November) years now... I wear glasses and I have contacts that I wear to school. I dress preppy in my peer's eyes (I definately don't act it tho, I'm not stuck up and so not a jock...) I have nice clothes (thanks to eBay for that one... XD) I think a car at 16 would be nice, but not likely.. Mom has already told me that she wants to get me my own laptop for Christmas (she told me cause I wanted to go to a concert that would have cost more than the laptop)

I do get what I want when we have the funds and if I've acted nicely.. But I do have a lot of work to do on a everyday basis...
 
A 6 year old with an Ipod?!! That's Crazy!

As for me, my brother an I are not spoiled. I have to wait for prices to come down before I can get anything. I was told that I can get a Cell Phone when I can pay the extra 20 dollars to add the Phone to their plan.

The only "luxury" my brother and I have is we have our own computers. (And that's because we are homeschooled and need them to do our work)
 
Miyu-chan said:
I just read this article on how parents nowadays are spoiling their children. And I'm wondering... what do you think is the limit for spoiling? And... do you consider yourself spoiled? Is giving a 16 year old a new car too much? Is giving a 6 year old an iPod too much?

Discuss.

*hides* o.o;
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It depends on the kid. Does the 6 year old really want iPod? That's a part of the question. It has to be affordable by the parent too, obviously. If the PARENTS have/observe legitimate reasons for buying their kids the iPod, then by all means they should. Technically if the iPod makes the kid will make the kid happy for the effort its worth to buy it, they it will be very good to buy it for him.

As for the 16 year old, he should be relatively more mature, but buying such a huge present such as a new car for anyone is stupid. =/ Unless the family is really rich and don't consider it big--then they should consider if the car will really be a benefit. But if it's more then the 16 year old can handle or derserve, then yes, the car will not only spoil him but wreck him, and should not be given to him.

And me, I grew up pretty bad.... d= err... no need to talk more about it. Oo
 
I never got anything off my parents, if i wanted something i had to work for it.
 
wow,that's never happen with,im like Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie.i live of of my parents money.
 
I don't really think I'm spoiled. Nor are any of my friends (I can't STAND people like that). My brother and I both have our own computers with top internet, but that's only because he needs it for homework, since he's in year 11. And what kind of parent gives one of their kids a computer, and not the other? Most people have computers now, anyway. And TVs. Why should the parents get TVs if the kids don't?

There was a kid in my primary school called Ruby who used to be dirty, stickin' rich. No one liked her. People used to bully her and steal her stuff after school. Normally, I wouldn't approve of such things, but she had it coming. May she die a slow, and painful death and suffer in hell for all eternally. Or at least made miserable at high school, too. ^_^
 
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