kids-these-days

Children Talking About Politics Will Never Not Be Amusing

Camille Dodero · 09/28/12 04:10PM

Adults interrogating children about Big Person Issues on camera is a completely original concept that was definitely invented by the Internet. But since it's been a gnarly Friday afternoon, let's cleanse our eyeballs with this short clip of kids talking about the 2012 presidential election at a Brooklyn block party. You will learn that the White House is located . . . at the beach! You vote by . . . getting some cardboard! The one character all the children of the world would unanimously vote for . . . is Spongebob!

Is It Time to Loathe College Kid Farmers Yet?

Hamilton Nolan · 09/25/12 10:23AM

Trend science is a delicate art. The progression of a group or a place or an activity from "strange" to "offbeat" to "trendy" to "hateful" is one that can often only be precisely decoded by experts such as ourselves, or whatever other assholes have opinions on the internet. For example: we know for sure that urban farming is now a trend that can be classified as fully fauxhemian, and irrationally mocked accordingly. But what about kids who go to college, and then become farmers, out there in the country, where the farms are? Are they proper targets for our self-loathing turned outwards, yet?

Sexting Teens Are Also Having Sex That Doesn't Involve Phones

Hamilton Nolan · 09/18/12 09:10AM

Sexting: the clicky sticky menace. Is your plucky teenager—honors student, Girl/ Boy Scout, churchgoer—utilizing the cell phone that you provided him or her with "just for emergencies" for another purpose altogether? The purpose of typing out "what are u wearing" to a member of the opposite or same sex as his or her loins swell in anticipation of the reply, "jeans u?"

Everyone Has Figured Out That Business School Sucks

Hamilton Nolan · 09/17/12 12:40PM

Does factual evidence show that we are living in a bold new "Age of Aquarius" in which young people throw off the strictures of their square parents' uptight generation and forge their own path, outside of the square uptight money-focused world where everything is always about money and shit? The answer is a resounding "yes, dad." For not only are The Youth giving up on law school—they're giving up on business school, as well.

Adorable Little Fairy Princess Has Death Metal Dark Side

Neetzan Zimmerman · 09/07/12 03:16PM

Two talented siblings, drummer boy Izzy and his fairy-winged sister Aaralyn, have joined forces with their (unseen) guitarist dad Jason to form Murp — the most adorable deathcore band this side of the apocalypse.

Back to School, You Lazy Whelps, Ha Ha, Sucks for You

Hamilton Nolan · 08/20/12 08:48AM

It's half-past August, and you know what that means in No Child Left Behind the 7-11 Without Some Book-Learnin' America: it's time for your unruly, ungrateful, and uncomprehending children to put down their childish toys of summers and return to the cold, gleaming socialization boxes in which we warehouse them virtually year-round, for the good of everyone.

These Rich Kids Sure Can Rap About Snacks

Neetzan Zimmerman · 08/16/12 02:35PM

Backed North Community Beats and Rhymes — a YMCA-affiliated afterschool program — a group of snack-spitting tykes calling themselves the Y.N.RichKids have just dropped their latest joint: A finger-licking ode to their favorite anytime junk food — "Hot Cheetos & Takis."

Teenage Monks Being Mad Disrespectful of Monkhood Stuff Right Now

Hamilton Nolan · 08/15/12 08:45AM

This "millennial" generation of youngsters these days—is there any respected institution which they cannot ruin merely by being themselves? It seems not. For thousands of years, Buddhist monks have had a good thing going: they sit. They chant. They chill. And now? "Me-first" teenage monks these days are using the internet to destroy everything, as usual.