I began to take note of how it seems as if every generation, a child's mind slowly evolves subconsciously therefore, becoming more aware of "erotic play" at an early age. Now I don't know about you, but some of the people I interacted with in my middle school days didn't take part in dialouge of such vulgarity (maybe sometimes) but the dirty jokes and the "stories" coming from 12 year olds just throwing the F bomb and uses sexual content left and right is something that keeps reoccurring. Middle schoolers tend to have that immature mindset but some of their conversations are even things I don't know about. I don't mean all but only some with no intentions of generalization. You can learn a lot just by walking within the same hallways as them.
Friday, August 20, 2010
Children growing up too fast?
In Brave New World, Aldous Huxley's vision of a futuristic Utopian world controls the future traits of children and become exposed to inappropriate content of what you shouldn't be knowing until you reach a certain age. Well, attending a school mixed with both middle and high school students, you basically have a general idea of how middle schoolers and high schoolers interact with each other and their peers.
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Let me bring an example that might be relevant to this, or at the very least to the title of this topic. My little brother was born here. He was raised in the American fashion.
ReplyDeleteNow, one day he comes home from school looking mighty sad. I ask him what's wrong and he tells me his girlfriend cheated on him.
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He's 6.
He has a girlfriend that cheated on him? And they're in first grade!
I thought to myself, "My god! When I was growing up, at his age I didn't think about girls or anything of the sort. I was still in the "girls are icky" phase at his age. But wow. I was stunned. It goes to show the mentality of children in America is... very different from the the one I grew up in. Much more... advanced.