A topic i saw on BlogTV.sg, a TV show about blogs. I tried posting my views, but apparently i was too vulgar for them. (Actually its an IP ban, but I'm being sensitive here...)

Are kids growing up too fast now?

Kids now grow fast, but their mental age aren't catching up as well. You see, when we say grow up, we really mean that the kid has grown out of his transformers and now is ready to build a REAL thing, or something close. But the kids we say that grows up too fast is not speaking like he should. They have their views, point taken, but it is not coming through their point of view. It is more of "Read off the internet, paraphrase, regurgitate."

I personally find not only the Internet, but material accessable to them inflates their ego, such as comics, shows that features children saving the world, MMORPGS, and similiar material. They personify the user/reader as a superhero, and a kid's mind, being so malleable, absorbs that fact well. Grown ups have reality hardwired into their nerve system so we are resistant to that fact. And when kids know themselves as "The One", any advice we give them goes down either into their colon, or they hide in in their "Do-Not-Touch" section of their brain.

Kids have more access to knowledge, just that their mindset isn't ready to handle it. Nor absorb it. Not even to process or learn from it. At all.

What are YOUR views?