Damn kids growing up so fast!

At some point during your life, you would have accused a younger person, as in the generation below, from growing up too fast.

This is no surprise since the average age for first-time-sex has dropped, eight year olds are using and owning mobile phones, ten year olds know how to access youtube and newgrounds, and there are now lingerie being designed to target pre-teens.

Back in my days...sex is a shush-shush topic, I didn't receive my first mobile phone until I was 16 (and didn't really use it until 18), it was only when I was 12/13 I figured out how to used a computer properly, and avoided lingerie and bras like a plague! (This is coming back to the sex is a shush-shush topic).

Kids these days are growing up too damn fast...

In reality, they're not growing up any faster, the 'growing pace' hasn't changed much at all. Believe it or not, I say their pace is no different to our growing pace and the generations before.

The speed of growth isn't changing, it's the culture and environment that is.

Back in my times mobile phones weren't as easily accessible as compared to now. You can get a new phone and a new number within a day compared to waiting for weeks.

Much like the mobile phone, computer and internet access is faster and easier (without the nasty beeeeep connection noises) and you don't necessarily need a computer get the internet. I am talking about library computers, and internet cafes for those who don't follow.

As for sex...from the influence of the Sexual Revolution, contraception and the fear of HIV and AIDS, information about sex has become more open and accessible compared to many years ago. The topic of sex has become less shush-shush (though to an extent it still is). People are more open in talking about it, sex education is taught in schools, information about sex (whether it's contraceptives or STDs) is more available, and condom vending machines can be found in bathrooms, or handed out like lollies during orientations.

Even though one can argue about the increase of teenage sex and pregnancy, but hasn't that trend been the same for every passing generation?

Children aren't growing up any faster, they are just living in a different world - a world which us, and our past generations, worked hard to create.

This post was inspired by the fact this is my birthday month...and I don't want to grow up!!!