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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.

I was a kid in the eighties and now I work in a high school. I don't really notice the kids being any more rude now than they were then, but what I do notice is that their parents are a lot less involved than when I was in school. It's hard to keep kids in school when their parents don't care whether or not they graduate. Not all parents are like this by any means, but it seems like it's a lot higher percentage than when I was in school. I work primarily with high risk students, and these kids can seem to be rude or rough around the edges, usually because of their home lives. Once I get to know them they are no different than I was when I was that age, it's just that they have been through things that I never even thought about when I was that age, and therefore have a different attitude about everything and may seem to be rude or hard when they are actually just scared or cautious.

Kids are awful these days. If I ran wild in stores like some people let their kids do, I would've gotten my *ss spanked. Not just that but they're meaner now to their peers. I was always taught to respect my peers and got my *ss spanked if I was mean to another kid. I think today parents are too afraid to spank their kids when the wrong-doing calls for it. Too many kids do something wrong and get a time out...no real punishment there, all they have to do is sit in a chair for a few mins...I'm sorry, but that's not my idea of punishment. If my parents did that to me I'd be a little brat too. I spank my kids when they do something really bad, and alot of people look at me like I'm a bad parent...but you don't see my boys running through stores and being totally uncontrollable!!

As the decades have gone by I think the family unit has slowly disintegrated. There are more single parents, divorce and step families. All of this causes stress on the family unit which could cause some kids to lash out and be rude. My father died when i was young and it was in the eighties. I was the only kid that i knew of in my school who had a parent die. My mom was under a lot of stress but we were raised right. Some families don't emphasize the importance of good manners because they could be struggling or have so many other pressures teaching good manners gets over looked.

Once upon a time kids would try all sorts of bad behavior. Mom would get a switch and wail on our backside and when Dad got home and heard about it he'd tell you to go get a belt and do the same. At school if you behaved badly you were sent to the Principal's office to have The Board of Education applied to your bottom. We had bad behavior trained out of us. You can't even raise your voice to kids now, so we are raising a generation of spoiled, rude little monsters. Glad I'll be retired and/or dead before they are in charge of things.

Kids are the same now but in the 80s parents would beat their children more frequently giving onlookers a satisfaction that they were getting what they deserved, evil vermin!

kids are definitely more rude and LOUDER than they were in the80s.

the parents don't give a da mm about them and let the do whatever. then when the parents that actually have good kids, let them go out to high school and middle school and the bad kids influence the good ones, you get my point

Kids do seem more rude, I think it depends on the parents, they seem to be working more to keep their lifestyles up or parents simply don't have the time or care and sometimes it's just the kid being a shmuck.

Kids are more rude.

Any discipline is automatically "abuse".

Kids are too wild, and I do PARTIALLY blame the hip-hop culture along with every other INFLUENCE kids today HAVE.

Definately more rude! Lack of discipline because everyone is afraid to correct their children because it might be deemed "child abuse". There is a difference between correcting your child and abusing your child