Childhood Is Now Over By Age 11 could this be true?

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After reading this comment from a mother I am gob smacked that a school would allow this to happen, if true it is spectacularly ridiculous.


I have an 11year old daughter and on valentines day she came home from school in complete misery because she had been teased for being the only girl in year 6 who didn't have a boyfriend. The school had actively allowed expensive presents, delivery to the school office of bunches of flowers etc etc for 10 and 11 year olds.

Childhood Is Now Over By Age 11 could this be true?
I did hear something like that on tv yesterday. i think its awful, but it is i think a lot to do with advertising, kids magazines, and the parents.


to the person who said she "grew up" at 10, then all i can say is that i did enjoy playing with my Sindy doll when i was 12 or 13. we were much more naive those days, but are better off for it nowadays.


my 9 year old grand daughter came to my house last week and told me she had a boyfriend and she was going out to play with him after tea. i told her he wasn't a boyfriend, but a friend that is a boy. she was insulted indeed, and insisted he was a boyfriend. They are hearing all this at school, and they are not "with it" if they dont have a boyfriend. My daughter found a text on her phone ( which she only gets when she is out for safety reasons) from the boy saying he loved her and she had replied back, i love you too.


i despair, honestly!!!!


i played with boys when i was her age but it was just all friends together, which is all she is doing, they go out to play and then meet up with friends, or sit in her room listening to cd's. Just what she is doing with her female friends.


i would hate to be a kid nowadays
Reply:been like that for years not new news to me or my wife
Reply:Well that is a little wierd but in general, yes, I'd say I grew out of childhood at around 11 or twelve and that's the way it should be...none of us need to run around playing dolls and chatting on the phone about boys instead of with them when we're still 15 or so.
Reply:I dread to think how this world is going to end up, and what our kids will have to endure in there lifes
Reply:It's true in some places. Where I live it's true, and the infant and junior schools down the road are testiment to this. The kids are so unhappy.


My daughter goes to school where this isn't true. It also isn't true in the place I grew up in, we visit there and the kids are normal.


This does happen in some places, but again it's media making it crazy. If you don't want your child to be like this, don't raise them like this. If you read the article, it says how the parents actually encourage it - letting them do stuff, not having proper control. They are choosing to let them have make-up and stuff. I saw a 6 year old yesterday with a mobile. The parents allow the child to reject dolls at 6. I wouldn't allow it. I play with dolls with my daughter. We play together, with dolls.


The parent controls what the child becomes....not society.





I feel sorry for you and your daughter. The school down the road from me is like this. They gave eachother love bites, the boys held the girls down (that's as much as I know - there is more I bet), and it's an infant school. They were in year 1 - 5 and 6 years old. I put my child in a different school. If I was you, I'd think about it.
Reply:yah !!!!! its over at 10!
Reply:Don´t know what kind of school that was. Wouldn´t happen where I work.





Last week I was away on an overnight field trip with forty six 10 and 11yr olds. I was stunned to find a group of girls putting make up on for "the night time" and amazed to see that the contents of their make up bags were superior to mine!





It was face washed and straight downstairs!
Reply:I thought school was for learning NOT receiving bunches of flowers, which no doubt the kids parents sent/paid for anyway.





Schools should be turning away such deliveries and rules on uniform etc should be much stricter.





I despair of my peers!
Reply:wow that's crazy.


Here they just give little cards and candy!





But they also have a policy if you bring something you have to bring enough for the whole class!
Reply:well, that happens at my school all the time. we are all a little older than 10 and 11 but what can i say. it isn't like the 1950's anymore. back then it would be considered a crime to do something like that, but now in the modern time, well, its just like that
Reply:thats sad, my own grandson always does well on valentines day, this year he got 17 cards, hes only 2, valentines day is his birthday,
Reply:I agree, but I think its youger than 11 though.
Reply:It seems to look that way, girls as young as 13 get their eye brows waxed, but they are not street wise! (WELL NOT ALL OF THEM)!
Reply:Sadly, childhood is over long before age 11 for some children - and it's all down to us adults (directly or indirectly)
Reply:They must have no sensitivity at all to childrens feelings if that happened to her daughter. The schools and government and media are all at fault for this situation for their usurping of parents authority and technology for providing the means. Internet and mobile phones seperate children from their parents, they can talk to their friends all the time and have no time for activities with parents and so they get their values from their peers (or older kids they meet on the net), which are all about growing up and having the latest thing. Also some parents are happy to let the media and their peers dictate their lives and not let them be children sitting them in front of the telly because this society says mothers should work and full time motherhood is not valued. Its very very sad. I feel sorry for kids nowadays.
Reply:It is absolutely tragic that our childrens' childhood is being stolen. There are so many years ahead for make up, boyfriends etc but the childhood years are so short and precious.


I really think that there is a very sinister agenda here and parents really need to wake up and fight it. What sort of education system teaches its schoolchildren not just about homosexuality at age 11 but also that it is okay to have sex outside a stable relationship. More broken homes then, more lost, unhappy children of the future. It is downright wicked. By the time they are 20 they will look 40, tired and used.


A poster has said that it's grooming. It sure is and it is time that parents woke up to that fact.


No wonder our children are the unhappiest in Europe.


PS Shouldn't the NSPCC be looking at what's going on in our schools?
Reply:Yikes. I'm only 23 and things have REALLY changed from when I was a kid.





People wonder what's wrong with kids these days, but I have to wonder, what's wrong with some PARENTS these days?





When you don't teach your kids morals, or discipline, or to have self-respect, how do expect them to turn out?
Reply:State sponsored grooming. This country is run by some truly sick people. Children are no longer allowed to be kids. Why DO children have to be introduced to the concept of homosexuality at 11 years old? If you can't work that one out, well, think about it. In a few years we will have a lot of mentally ill, damaged young people, all to keep the wierdos happy
Reply:So sad but unfortunately nowadays true. I have a friend who is proud that her daughter is 'streetwise' at 9! I sent Valentine cards to both my children secretly for years so they would not feel left out in any way but they were a lot older than 11.