These kids are in for a rude awakening...

vraiblonde

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...that is, if they ever graduate.

https://www.thecollegefix.com/post/32492/

It should embarrass them to be so infantile. It should embarrass their parents that they raised a child with such severe arrested development.

And yet they can screw and do drugs with impunity.

"Hey, Jessie, when you're done playing with your Play Doh Fun Factory, let's go ####."
 

Gilligan

#*! boat!
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Gawd. I kept hoping that was an Onion article...or WorldNewsDailyReport..anything but serious.
 
Jeopardy tonight was the Teachers Tournament. One of the teachers said he projected emojis on the wall and asked his students to pick one or two in order to gauge how his students felt that day.

When I was in school the Calculus 101 professor appointed a class chaplain and said 'See me if you have problems understanding the material. For all other problems, see the chaplain'.

Times sure have changed. Poor kids.
 

Larry Gude

Strung Out
And so it goes. Our parents thought we all had it WAY too easy compared to them and theirs before them and so on.

Robert E. Lee was one of the greatest American's of all time, so enormously respected that Winfield Scott offered him ENTIRE command of US armed forces at the beginning of the civil war. He declined. Over principle. Even he was not immune to this age thing and, exasperated at some of his subordinates in the middle of a battle, The Wilderness IIRC, said to one of them, paraphrasing "You young men are so irresponsible and do not tend enough to your duties. I can not get you to follow my orders".

This to the men who had been bleeding and dying for him for 4 years and would go on to be known as the greatest infantrymen, by far, commanders and rank and file, to ever walk this planet.


It's just a thing. Old people ALWAYS think the youngin's have it WAY too easy and just KNOW they were the ones who walked both ways, uphill, in the snow, in July with no shoes and no complaints.

Until THEIR folks weigh in on what sissies they were.


So, congratulations; you're old. And you're boringly predictable. :buddies:


And now, like your folks before you and theirs before them, you're thinking' "I hear you but THIS is different! THIS batch is the WORST ever!" :clap:
 

vraiblonde

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And now, like your folks before you and theirs before them, you're thinking' "I hear you but THIS is different! THIS batch is the WORST ever!" :clap:

Except for the part where it does continue to get worse. The more we coddle our kids, the more infantile they will be. Our great-great-grandparents who criticized the whippersnappers would crap their pants if they saw young adults today.

In my short life I've seen my kids' entitled generation, who were ridiculously spoiled and disrespectful - yet they ain't nothing compared to my grandson's peers. Remember how when we were teens we couldn't wait to be old enough to drive? And how many of us went the day of our 16th birthday to take our test? Yeah, kids don't do that these days. Most of the teens I know are 17/18/19 and STILL don't drive. They have no interest in independence or concept of responsibility.

Remember how we had to be responsible for our own birth control when we decided to become sexually active? Now Mommy takes the 14 year old and gets her fixed up, takes care of it, pays for it.

So we are indeed spiraling downward with regard to our kids and maturity.
 
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Bonehead

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I sure am happy with the way my sons turned out.......I have to admit I made some things too easy for them but they overcame my best efforts !!!
 

RareBreed

Throwing the deuces
Except for the part where it does continue to get worse. The more we coddle our kids, the more infantile they will be. Our great-great-grandparents who criticized the whippersnappers would crap their pants if they saw young adults today.

In my short life I've seen my kids' entitled generation, who were ridiculously spoiled and disrespectful - yet they ain't nothing compared to my grandson's peers. Remember how when we were teens we couldn't wait to be old enough to drive? And how many of us went the day of our 16th birthday to take our test? Yeah, kids don't do that these days. Most of the teens I know are 17/18/19 and STILL don't drive. They have no interest in independence or concept of responsibility.

Remember how we had to be responsible for our own birth control when we decided to become sexually active? Now Mommy takes the 14 year old and gets her fixed up, takes care of it, pays for it.

So we are indeed spiraling downward with regard to our kids and maturity.

My 16 year old had his first job interview last week. He has his Learner's but can't drive solo until July so I had to drive him to his interview. I waited outside. The rest was up to him.
 

PsyOps

Pixelated
So we are indeed spiraling downward with regard to our kids and maturity.

And this was in the name of "we work hard now so your life can be easier". I think this was a mistake. With each generation, wanting life to be easier for our kids, only resulted in it being easier and easier. This results in lethargy and complacency. Couple this with ho technology has made us more lazy and socially disconnected. Kids today have no concept of how to deal with life's difficulties. They've never had to work through hardship. So, when hardship hits them square in the face, they don't have the tools to properly respond to it. Most kids in their early 20s and late teens don't know how to swing a hammer or turn a screw driver. They don't know how to fix the most basic things. They don't even know how to logically think through these things.

Of course, then there is this disease of social and political correctness that is plaguing our youth. The need for safe spaces. Rejecting speech they disagree with; not because they disagree, but because it's so offensive to them that they are unable to move on with their lives. And not just rejecting it, but rejecting it violently. The concept of liberty is lost in these people. They need for mental counseling because someone got elected or a bill was passed.

We're close to the same age, and I think you'd agree we've never seen this level of childishness and inability to cope in our adult-kids.
 

PsyOps

Pixelated
My 16 year old had his first job interview last week. He has his Learner's but can't drive solo until July so I had to drive him to his interview. I waited outside. The rest was up to him.

Is your 16 year old the exception or the rule within his generation - in your opinion?
 

Larry Gude

Strung Out
And this was in the name of "we work hard now so your life can be easier". I think this was a mistake. With each generation, wanting life to be easier for our kids, only resulted in it being easier and easier. This results in lethargy and complacency. Couple this with ho technology has made us more lazy and socially disconnected. Kids today have no concept of how to deal with life's difficulties. They've never had to work through hardship. So, when hardship hits them square in the face, they don't have the tools to properly respond to it. Most kids in their early 20s and late teens don't know how to swing a hammer or turn a screw driver. They don't know how to fix the most basic things. They don't even know how to logically think through these things.

Of course, then there is this disease of social and political correctness that is plaguing our youth. The need for safe spaces. Rejecting speech they disagree with; not because they disagree, but because it's so offensive to them that they are unable to move on with their lives. And not just rejecting it, but rejecting it violently. The concept of liberty is lost in these people. They need for mental counseling because someone got elected or a bill was passed.

We're close to the same age, and I think you'd agree we've never seen this level of childishness and inability to cope in our adult-kids.


So, what you're saying is that we should have kept slavery, women under wraps, gays in the closet and treat everyone not like us as a lesser being? That way, the kids would be working as hard as us and our predecessors keeping all those people under control and America would be great again?

The Greatest Generation fought a war against national socialists, people very much like us, in order to make the world safe for communism, people we had virtually nothing in common with, for the next 50 years. Now, they were tougher and more resilient, right? Or simply too obedient to know any better?

We should have preserved the Robber baron era so that kids could work 7 days a week, 12 hours a day and be thankful to have the job?

I mean, pick a spot. Pick a time and tell me which one you want your kids to be living today. You guys totally buy into the each new generation is lamer than the last, a story that has been going on since the beginning of man, so, if that's the case, pick your time. Not one of these kids had a thing to do with Iraq or A'stan or Ferguson or immigration or healthcare or our foreign trade issues and they're the dummies and sissies?

So, please. What era do you want your kids to be living in? :popcorn:
 

GURPS

INGSOC
PREMO Member
Most of the teens I know are 17/18/19 and STILL don't drive. They have no interest in independence or concept of responsibility.



my 30 yr old still doesn't drive .... and no one is going to force him to get a JOB as long as his grandmother enables him to be lazy

at least he is a 'role model' to his 12 yr old sister - how NOT to be when you grow up.
 
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