text: is it me or are kids more rude nowadays than they were when i was a kid in the eighties? i see kids that get away with things today that i would have gotten my bottom busted for. what's up with that? i think that compared to when my grandparents were young kids now a days are more lazy and more rude. we do not make our children (well some of us do not) get up at 4am to milk cows & get eggs from chickens,come home from school and do school work. we do whip our children (not that everyone did that either then) for mis speaking. but honestly we do not have to whip our children for them to behave. our children our the way they are partly on how we allowed them to be raise, by our own examples in everyday life from how we speak to the sales person at marshals or walmart, how we talk to the cashire, how we treat a waitor or waitress who screws up an order or takes to long getting to you. kids mimic everything from how we act when we cook, to how we are in thecar when traffic is jammed, lost, or an idiot driving. they mimic our phone conversations and us getting mad at applkiences and electronics. they even try and mimic our dress and music at times. as well as what they hear or see on tv, radio, games and computure,and yes even in public. so compared to the 80s are kids more rude i am not 100% sure but it seems they get a way with a lot more crude sayings and behaviour partly because we allow it and also they more swearing is allowed on tv and radio as well as humor that was not okay back then but is ok now.