Kids these days...

I know I'm just a kid myself, just because I'm 18 doesn't make me grown up.

But I feel like kids these days are entirely too desensitized to things they shouldn't even know about.


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So I started this post like two months ago.
I'm going to finish it now.

I don't know if I told you guys the story or not, but I went to the boys and girls club to volunteer during spring break. I think I'm going to start going back over the summer. It was a lot of fun.

But that's not the point. I was there with one of my ROTC boys. He had volunteered before, so I kept asking questions, making sure I wasn't doing anything wrong.
Apparently, that means I am dating him.
So the little girls I was in charge of took my phone, and I had no problem with it. But they wanted to text people, so I told them to text Jesse (the ROTC boy), because I figured he wouldn't care, and he'd understand (because he was in the next room, and it would be easier and quicker to explain it to him than anyone else).
So they were texting him things like, "I like you" and "Let's go on a date" (they didn't have the cool punctuation and spelling, but you get the point). They all had a turn texting him (there were a lot of repeats), and then, they started changing what they were saying. "I want your babies"- while it does sound like something I would say, I didn't expect it out of smallish children (remember, the group I was watching was girls under 11).
When I told them that that was inappropriate, and took my phone away, the smallest girl there (both in size and age), this six year old angel, asked me, "You are having sex with him, right?"

Holy poop.

SIX YEARS OLD.
Does anyone else find this odd?
I asked her to repeat herself, and thought, for one second, I had misheard her.
I didn't.

Six.

I'm sorry, but that seems a bit young to be discussing sex.
Maybe it was just my mom, but I feel like I didn't learn that until sex-ed in sixth grade.
Like, I had a vague inkling that the stork wasn't real, but I didn't know the logistics of it.


This is one of the reasons I don't want to be a parent.
I don't think I could do it.
Raising a child should not be something left to the common public. I'm sorry, but there are entirely too many stupid people out there. If left to their own devices, they breed, and produce more stupid, uneducated people (watch the movie Idiocracy to see the worst case scenario).
Now, I'm not saying this child was stupid, but just the fact that that was common knowledge led me to believe that she isn't being raised properly. Sorry for being old fashioned, but I think that's a double digit discussion.
And maybe it's not the parents fault. Maybe it's society.
Maybe it's our fault.
Maybe we're not doing enough to help out.
Raising a child should not be left up to just the parents. There's too much at stake. I don't mean to sound, well I don't really know how it sounds, maybe cliche-y, but I think that it takes a village to raise a child. Everyone should be involved.
Maybe the 'everyone' involved now-a-days are the uneducated masses.


I don't know what I'm saying.
I never know what I'm saying.



I'm sorry for rambling.
I have a lot of thoughts, but I can't seem to focus them right now.

Maybe next time I'll have a coherent post.