kids aren't what they're used to be

I feel like this post is going to be... quite a lot hand-in-hand with the one I did two days ago. It's based on the things I found out that are happening in the Netherlands. Don't shoot me if things are totally different in your own country, I just felt the need to nag about it. I think people from the United States can take child pageants in mind while reading this. 

Nowadays, when I cycle trough the village where I live - and lived from my 1st until my 8th - I see children who wear make-up. And with using the world 'children', I mean those little women that often don't attend middle school yet. And with wearing make-up, I mean they wear a mask of foundation and more layers of mascara than I use in a week. While I was totally in fashion with my pink tee with a glittery image of two horses at that age, I bet they're asking their parents for Abercrombie. The other day, I discussed this with some friends who told me that things aren't that bad where I live since one of them got some terminal diseases, used as swear words, to her. By a girl she guessed that was around ten years old and smoked a sigarette. When the kid went back to her friends - all dressed in tops that showed their breasts, which they didn't have yet - they laughed. The friend I mention is fifteen years old and going into her sophomore year and I think it's already ridiculous that kids that go into the fifth or sixth grade even dare to call her names.

When I was ten, and I remember that myself very well, I felt badass when I was ringing at the door of someone who lived near my school. My best friend threw a pebble at her window and we were both caught and both end up being grounded. After our punishment we had to stop by at the women's house and give her flowers. There we learned that she couldn't see anymore and bothered her a lot. We really felt sorry for her and never did it again.

I think parents don't even think of grounding their children for something like that anymore. You guys heard of Thylane Blondeau, right? The only thing her mother was convinced about was the fact that her daughter wore a millions-worth necklace.It's like the 90's born kids are the last generation with common sense. Or at least, parents who can use their minds. When I think about myself as ten year old, which is only four years ago, I think of a girl who traded Pokemon cards with her classmates and played with marbles. I was a child. Nowadays, the 'children' want to be little adults. I almost start to wonder why it's such a problem that Thylane Blondeau already has a modelling career. At least, her foundation is applied by a make-up artist who knows what he or she is doing. Speaking of her peers..

Of course I know I'm generalizing a lot of things now and maybe this post is a little weird since I had a lot thought but if I had to write them all down, I would still be doing that tomorrow night. This is my opinion, don't shoot me. Maybe the Netherlands has a culture that's really different from that one that's running in other countries but I think a lot of Dutch people recognize what I'm speaking about. Now I'm off, being one of the few teenagers that isn't on a hunger diet.