To be honest I've encountered quite a few children (children to me are those younger than about 12 years of age) who came into the store I work in.
One group of kids I remember quite vividly was that one of them was handing them a penny and kept saying "Penny for your thoughts sir!" With the one
child just responding with "I don't like to think" to me I just thought that it's pretty much over, threw up my hands and started to walk away
from the register until someone else came up.
It's just that people are finding more meaning in various other things like music (which isn't to bad) but they think they can go all the way to the
top if they devout all their energy and willpower into it, or they choose to game quite a bit (Which I do myself, but only through the night and read
through the day, scheduling got messed up sadly).
I'd say priorities are just being slightly messed up at the moment.
P.S. Did not mean to demean those who are musicians trying to rise, in fact my friend is starting to make it big and have been trying to support him
since I knew him back in Middle school, thing is he plans to devout at least 50/50 but when school starts it becomes practically 75/25.