Thoughts from the article "Who's in charge here?"

When I read this article a number of things came to my mine. First off, since recently learning about the styles of parenting I found this to be a relative example of permissive parenting. The fact that these parents have no control over there children and can not say no for the life of them. Another thought I had while reading this article was that we do tend to compare today's children to the children of yesterday, and truly there is no comparison. Raising our kids today is nothing compared to the way kids were raised twenty years ago. I don't agree with any child not being held accountable or without any limits. However I do agree that the kids of today are growing up way to fast. It is my opinion that our society has made it this way. With technology as advanced as it is today, you see kids as young as five years old with their own cell phones and carrying around their first Hewlett Packard notebook. I think that maybe not to the extreme this article takes it but to an extent we, our society, have socialized our children to develop like this. The world is truly a different place today. I.Q's are higher, kids are little adults, people live longer, its our time of evolution. Its almost scary to think of what we are evolving to but maybe not, maybe its only scary because we have not been there yet. We could be on our way to self-destruction or we could be on our way to a new world, like living on mars?!