Comments on: “Who The Kids Gonna Listen Too? I Guess Me If It Isn’t You.”

By: Ahijah

Ahijah — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 11:52:34 +0000

Kids are growing up too fast and are being exsposed to adult stuff, I think parents should monitor kids doing more than they do especially as far as music goes cause little girls see all these videos hoes in music videos and want to be like them. Parents should talk to their children more than they do their is a lack of communication these days between parents and their children.

By: 2cents

2cents — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 06:30:05 +0000

I semi agree with JB in post 13. Most lil dudes really don’t want to do a lotta of the sh!t they do but the feel you gotta have that under your belt to get the chicks therefore they go and ruin they futures!

But females can’t be blamed totally there still is a precedent set by older people who these kids are following.

Also parents need to stop exposing children to adult situations and topics…LET THE KIDS BE KIDS!

By: jb

jb — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 06:03:46 +0000

this was a good read and i feel like music is a strong influence on wat kids think but its more visual more girls wanna be video hoes and shake they ass then niggaz wanna be killers or sellin drugs so the women need to set a better model for lil females…

By: 2cents

2cents — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 04:43:29 +0000

Basically we need to grow up! This topic is pretty broad and doesn’t really dig into the problem.

I’ve thought about this situation and I tell grown men to young kids what I feel is right (in VA I had to tell some lil dude he was jus being foul mouthed even though his point was valid)

But there are factors that fit into the situation. Like paper chasing. people put escalating their income over instilling some serious values into their children. Then there are the parents who have to work 2 jobs jus to make ends meet and seriously don’t have much time to spend with their children due to the system we live in. So those kids grow up in peer groups gangs and sh!t like that. its really an bleek situation and as a culture or race we need to figure out what we can sacrifice to really move ahead!

By: the king

the king — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 02:23:49 +0000

i second that opinion, whup dat ass as hard as u have to.
yea i know its about more than that, luckily i dont have kids yet, just siblings and i’m the father figure for them.
we got the shit beat out of us, and we was still bad but not as bad as kids today. the way society is going kids are growing up twenty times faster in this country. u can instill morals and values and things like that but kids will eventually rebel, its life its gonna happen, and all your teaching will have a reverse effect just cuz they 14 and u aint cool in they eyes.
i think sex is wayyyy to acceptable today in children, i hear kids singing it “it hot in hurr, take off all your clothes” and they dont know what it means.
when i was lil girls had cooties, now lil niggas talkin bout i’ma grab her booty

By: Flossin

Flossin — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 00:31:41 +0000

i just say whoop yo kids ass it worked me and everybody i know…..

By: Jince

Jince — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 23:51:56 +0000

Cornell, you’re writing is the primary reason I still come to this site.

I think that parents have tried talking to their children, but as you said, kids have becoming even more and more disrespectful of their elders, whether their elders are grandparents or even older siblings. They fall into this psychologically molded impression of consumerism and extreme individualism. I’m only 19 yet I can still clearly see the disparity amongst my generation and the one below mine.

Parents definately need to be talking to their children more, yet in a respectful way. As one of the commenters mentioned before, children are smarter these days, thats why parents cant talk down to kids like they themselves probably were talked to. Parents need to have an open forum with their children rather than telling them to “do this” or “dont do that.”

By: JamRock

JamRock — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 20:50:17 +0000

RealTalkNY brings the real. And yall said they fell off. tisk tisk. I like reading Cornell Dews posts, he always writes about about what i’m thinking, and great minds think alike, aha!

By: Brittm

Brittm — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 20:41:51 +0000

real talk

By: hip hop forever

hip hop forever — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 20:41:17 +0000

I just think that there is more than one influence in all life. Not only do flowers need water to grow, it needs the sun, and not only does it need the sun, it needs nuturing…I said all that to say that people are the same. There’s going to be more than one influence in your life, and it’s up to you to decipher what’s going to make you grow because unlike a flower, it can’t take care of itself. Kids are smarter than what everone is making them out to be. I was a kid when I was first exposed to vulgar hip hop like NWA and Luke…I heard it, my parents didn’t talk to me about it–hip hop wasn’t the first time I heard that language. I didn’t let it shape my mind into thinking that I am what they were saying???? I saw music for what it was, it’s not my parent, or my God. It was a sound, a beat, a thing. Could it have influenced me? Sure if I let it…but it didn’t. People need to stop acting like kids are so mindless that they can’t tell the difference between this, that or the other. Sure everyone doesn’t have parents, but everyone that didn’t doesn’t attribute their lives to music and if they did then ok. But Nelly, Snoop, Pac, or whoever never gave me anything but a dope sound to bob my head to because that’s all that I accepted it to be to me