Anyway just wondering; those 10-11 Arabs including you or you were no. 12 ?

I both agree and disagree with your baseline premise! I became a teenager (13) the year Star Wars came out. The year before, Saturday Night Fever came out and the “disco” craze had started. Recreational drug use was a big thing back then (at least here in the US), not just with teenagers but with their *parents* too. There was a lot of social upheaval at the time as well, ranging from the feminist movement and the sexual revolution (which hit teens before it hit adults it seems lol) to advocacy of socialism and other leftist ideologies that haven’t been seen in America since. The PC was invented the year during my junior year in High School. MTV had their first broadcast at about the same time, and that’s also when people started getting cable television instead of the roof antennas to pick up local stations that was all anyone had before that. There was a LOT going on when I was a teenager. And I probably don’t need to tell you what people were predicting for my “MTV generation”, right? The thing of it is, the parents of today’s teens are mostly about my age.

I do agree with you that the world has become a much more “sophisticated” place for most people, but I also believe that kids naturally adapt to their environment. I don’t think teenagers are necessarily more sophisticated (or more at risk) just because the environment they grow up in is. In a lot of ways today’s kids in the US seem much more sheltered than they were in the past. I rarely see kids out playing here where I live. I rarely see kids outside without their parents, at all. That’s worrisome, because being out and about with my friends was a big part of my childhood, and I hate to think today’s youth is missing out on that.

Will they grow up to be very demanding and hard to satisfy if we don’t do anything about it now, or is there a way to limit the exposure, and teach them that life can be lived and enjoyed by simple means?

Hmmm… simple means… such as? My father started me in Tae Kwon Do when I was 5, and I spent 2 evenings a week at the dojo, plus the whole of Saturday afternoon in sparring class. I did that for 9 years. I started league football (American style) when I was 11, and continued with it throughout high school. I also ran track in the Spring, and Cross Country in the fall. Are these simple means? Because *none* of my friends were into sports at all. I was in the nerd classes with all the nerd kids and most my friends used to just go home from school and read, watch TV, whatever. Today’s nerd kids have computers and the internet, but it seems to me there isn’t a whole lot of difference!

Did you just change the topic!?