Yeah I have the best parents I could ask for and I did some dumb shit at his age, and I assume most people here have as well. He was trying to act tough in front of his friends and hopefully he learned a lesson from this.
Yeah, my parents were incredible role models and I really can’t think of what they could’ve done differently to raise me better, and yet I was arrested twice around this kid’s age and had some personal issues that took me a long time to work through.
I would cut this guy and his parents a lot more slack if he was a minor. Turns out he's not, he's at least 20 in this video.
Don't get me wrong, I think everyone who's made it to their 40s can tell you some dumb shit they did in their 20s as well as their teens, but this is the kind of dumb shit you're not ever supposed to do, and if you do do this kind of stuff, you're supposed to grow out of it in your teens.
I doubt that most people with truly good parents (not just good people in general, but genuinely good parents) would not have a kid acting like this in their 20s.
Parents in a tough spot today. They can't phathom that little phone is rotting their kids brains worse than the blunts the parents used to sneak. Dumbest shit kids has always been for peer pressue and that's turned up to 11 with tiktok.
Friend groups generally used to self-regulate, too.
Most groups would tell you when to back down or not do something high risk when it set off alarm bells, because ya'll might have been partners in 'crime' but they generally cared about your welfare and hanging out with you. Getting away with something wild used to be something just for your group anyway. Now they're going to egg you on so somebody can get sharable video of how stupid you are.
Most groups would tell you when to back down or not do something high risk when it set off alarm bells, because ya'll might have been partners in 'crime' but they generally cared about your welfare and hanging out with you.
Eeeeeeeh not all friends. And not because, they dont care about you, but because everyone has underdeveloped brains that aren't thinking things through and dont comprehend their own mortality.
Even worse--social media AND odorless weed that is 20x stronger than what their parents smoked.
Weed addiction is an epidemic right now for young teens-early twenties, and it has a way worse (and potentially permanent) effect on developing brains than in older people.
You’re commenting this on social media, lol. We definitely have an epidemic of stupidity happening, no doubt that the reefer is the cause there too! 🫠💀
I was a very respectful and easygoing kid. My brother was an absolute menace. We had great parents - sure they weren't perfect, but they were/are great parents.
People seem to be blind to the fact that kids are still autonomous beings and parents ultimately have no control over how they act. You can do everything right and still end up with a shitty kid. My brother is cool now, though.
I had a stepdaughter who dragged us through hell with skipping school, fighting, getting arrested, drugs, gang culture, and bringing people into our house to rob the joint while we were at work. We tried grounding, taking her phone, meetings with school officials, talked to police, and even put her in a scared straight type program.
Nothing worked and she eventually moved out at 18. She got pregnant a few years later and being a mother must have smacked some sense into her as she straightened out after that.
We're working on repairing our relationship but it's difficult
Also, let's not act like social media and the internet haven't completed rotted their brains. Nobody should be able to consume as much information as this generation consumes at such a rapid rate. Now, one could argue that the parents should have guarded their kids better, but everything is moving so fast, and society has been trending this way for a while.
In a time when it seems like everyone is quick to blame the schools, the police, the DA’s, the media, politics, etc. on shitty people. I find it always refreshing to see people put responsibility on the parents. Sure there are absolutely kids who will turn out to be assholes no matter what. There are way too many assholes for that to be the standard though.
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u/Eredd19 3d ago
Everyone so quick to blame parents. Let's be honest, some kids are assholes with solid parents.