Kids More Stressed Out Than Ever Before, Survey Shows

These "studies" and "surveys" get dumber and dumber.

You are asking tweens and teens if they are more stressed than last year?

1) Stress fades in the memory, folks. Do you really think they accurately remember how they were feeling 365 days ago? Do they also remember what they had for dinner that day? Or how the weather was? Hello!

2) Puberty and adolescence have always involved increasing awareness of the stresses of life - it's part of growing up. Besides . . .

3) Kids that age are all about "OMG, Me, Now." It's hormonal, they can't help it. Of course they think that the stress they feel this minute is more than 90% of humans, including themselves, have ever felt.

Dumbest "survey" I've ever heard of, and that's saying something. Where's the money for these things coming from? Oh, this is from the American Psychological Association - people with psychology degrees asked these dumbass questions? I'm not even sure what to think about that.

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I agree that times are stressful for kids, especially when it comes to college. These days universities seem to only take the best of the best of the best, looking at not only stellar grades but community service, life experience, and a plethora of other things that the average teenager doesn't have enough hours in the day for. It's true, kids these days are under more pressure than they were ten years ago, and a lot of it does come from the parents, but much more comes from the kids themselves.

I disagree with a lot of what SKL has said. Some people have quite accurate memories about their feelings during any given year. And just because you're aware of these things, SKL, doesn't mean that the rest of the world is just as informed as you are. Studies are needed to bring to light issues in society so they can be discussed and dealt with. Not to mention that the people working on these studies are that many less people you'll have to pay for on welfare!

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Parents today have no clue. We live in a self indulgent society where Parents are still children themselves. I don't like hearing my ex Daughter in law telling my Grand Daughter to shake her booty. She's 4! Parents never ask their children to leave the area or go play when certain topics are being discussed and kids today hear way more information than they should. The result is a society where children grow up way too fast. Whatever happened to a little girl looking cute or adorable. Instead adjectives such as you look sexy mama are the norm for 4 year olds. It's A-moral. It's wrong! Everyone wants to know why kids are going wrong these days. It's simple. The Parents. I am of course not a Parent of the times. I am a Grand Parent and I'm no prude but things are out of control. Sex rules every subject these days. Kids watch MTV and every young girl is dressed like a whore. That's right a whore. How else do you describe girls, teenagers dressed where their thongs are sticking out the top of their pants. It's one thing for consenting adults to dress like this cause their on the prowl which seems to be the case for every woman on earth these days. Children mimic everything their Parents do. If your grown daughter dresses sexy at all times, runs to the tanning salon, hair dresser, nail salon, etc. She is obssessed and lives a superficial lifestyle. Half these women never cook dinner or clean their homes. With the economy the way it is I don't understand where they get the money for such things. I guess buying microwave lunch's and dinners is where they cut back so they can always look like there ready for a romp in the hey. My generation has done something wrong. We have not stressed morals and ethics enough. As a result we have raised a generation of self indulgent, selfish, unsacrificial people. Stop the madness. Teach your children right and wrong and stand by your convictions. Children run the household today because the Parents are too weak to take the necessary steps to raise their children properly. A lot has to do with working Mothers and the fact that children today are raised by anyone who will take the pay for it. Working Mothers is fine but not at the expense of your children's lack of manners, morality and decency. Wake up America and allow a child to have a childhood. Stop preparing them to lure a man for the man they lure will only do damage that their Parents blatanly ask for.

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I just posted on the truuconfessions site about how stressed out my daughter is. I am not sure that it is a sign of the times as I was a stressed out teenager so it is probably more to do with personality.

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There stressed because they have information they don't need to know. Like how your parents pay the bills. Not something they need to know. And global warming? Why not just scare the shit out of the kids now, They tell these kids things like there going to die if they own a car in the future. The schools now a days suck, stop teaching this stuff to children,

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I agree with Igcoach77. I was raised in different country, and I observed almost 20 years ago (when I came here for the first time), that kids here have very poor childhood. Learning manners starts as early as possible, when the child is able to interact and play with other children. But instead they are left in the front of TV, computer or other games most the time. Yes, it is true that I never had opportunity to have wonderful toys like kids in America, and yes, I did not have soooo many available channels with cartoons, or other programs for kids, but instead I was playing outside as much as it was possible. Interaction with others is the key next to parents behavior. There is also another problem that adds for children to be stressed out. From the earliest years, as our children enter kindergarden, preschool, and then elementary school, they loose the feelings of stability, security, and safety just because every single year they go through a tremendous stress of being separated from their friends. Every single year, I believe exept private schools, they mix classes, and every single year our children find new kids in their classroom with new teacher, and they have to make new friends, new bodies. It takes time before they make solid bond. Finally when they find their best playmates, they have to be ripped a part after summer break again. The search here starts again. It get worse, and worse as kids get older. They become shy, there is a peer pressure and just name it. Just think how stressful is the moment where we, adults, have to change a job and meet new people. I have a perfect example, because I have 11 years old daughter, and I witness every single year her worries about acceptance, about meeting new kids, about new home teacher. I was fortunate to stay with the same firends in the same class throughout my elementary school, and high school. I made friends for life. We didn't have computers, electronic games, we didn't have beautiful toys. Instead we had to use our imagination, built something, make toys, and be outside with our friends, have fun. Today society is dangerous, and often kids are limited to play with their siblings (if they have one). At school they have limited time between classes to get to their lockers, exchange books and they have to rush to the next class. At my daughters school it is only not even full 4 min. They even count seconds!!!! So again they barely meet new kids, in new class, sometimes at new school, and they don't have enough time to interact. Many of our kids grow up with termendous struggle to fit in, and we even don't notice that actually they very lonely. Luckier are those who live in the apartments, condominiums, or other like that community areas. These kids can go out in the front of the house or apartment and play ( if you lucky to have neighbours with kids). So adding to parents lack of time, ignorance, lack of knowledge how to raise kids, and sometimes simply laziness, there are so many other things that we create making everything complicated, especially in the eyes of the youngests. Our kids pay the biggest prize.

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