kids are miserable gits - official

[ratewhore]

tell us something we don't know

[bogeyman]

Can't really blame them though.

God! I'd hate to be a kid now.

Their lives are so commercially-driven, target-oriented and motivated by fear and distrust of strangers.

Most of them aren't even allowed to roam outside their front gate.

Except for the feral ones, that is.

[up4it]

They get it from their parents!

[Lucy]

I wonder how much of it is to do with them not having a parent at home to look after them properly. I don't think it's very fair on a child to have both parents working and be too tired/grumpy to play with them or help them with their homework.

Television is as emotionally numbing as valium, so it's not surprising they feel depressed.

[BrilloPad]

tell us something we don't know

And they can be contagious

[BrilloPad]

I wonder how much of it is to do with them not having a parent at home to look after them properly. I don't think it's very fair on a child to have both parents working and be too tired/grumpy to play with them or help them with their homework.

Television is as emotionally numbing as valium, so it's not surprising they feel depressed.

So nothing to do with hormones then?

[Lucy]

So nothing to do with hormones then?

Well, I'm sure that doesn't help, but teenagers have always had hormones, something needs to explain why they suddenly are suffering record levels of depression. I certainly feel more down when I've been watching TV.

[PAH]

I wonder how much of it is to do with them not having a parent at home to look after them properly. I don't think it's very fair on a child to have both parents working and be too tired/grumpy to play with them or help them with their homework.

I was a latch key kid and it didn't do me any harm, as far as I can tell.

My downfall was getting into computers, which severely dented my sociable side. Coincided with terrible acne. Something my confidence with women has never recovered from. Getting cursed in the shopping mall by a local vagrant because I was sat in his spot probably hasn't helped either.

[bogeyman]

Getting cursed in the shopping mall by a local vagrant because I was sat in his spot probably hasn't helped either.

Was it a bit wet and stinky?

[sasguru]

...something needs to explain why they suddenly are suffering record levels of depression. .

Where does it say that you silly bint? So 27% of kids answered that they sometimes felt depressed. FFS, get out the violins.
I shouldn't really be surprised that people believe these dodgy unscientific surveys. Most people are scientifically and statistically illiterate, including most on this board.

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