Kids today are different from the last couple of generations. Why?

[ptbw forever]

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The library is where the young people get laid and shoot up with drugs.

Sex, Drugs and the Public Library

Thankfully we are not at those stages where I live yet.

 

[AZGAL]

the Baby Boomers are admired for their courage and intelligence.

 

[blackhawk]

Boy the differences in environment is astonishing. I though the other day about phones and wondered if libraries are going to become obselete. After all, how many teenagers or even adults read these days?

As for 10-20 year olds, now way can a book be chosen over a video game, horror movies and Facebook.

Television wasn't so bad because it generally depicted a suburban or urban home that honored values and cursing was never part of a conversation. The mosr selacious television was murder mysteries and then My Three Sons or Mayberry were more popular.

If you really thought about our society today, we are in real trouble. Marriages are not lasting because often we are moral degenerates or or not even taken seriously. It is a "throw away alliance" that ends sometimes without much thought (about as much thought as there was in deciding on marriage.)

Where do you think we are going to be in the next 40 years? I shudder to think.

Parents don't discipline, won't allow the schools to do the same and parents look the other way when their kids get into drinking, drugs and smoking without consequence. Young people are not being held responsible for anything. What kind of world are we creating?

Is there anything we can do to reverse this trend?

I can remember back in high school some guys would have a gun rack in their truck and they would have their gun in it because they were going to go hunting after school but no one ever took the gun into the school and went on a rampage something like that never entered their mind. Suffice it to say a lot has changed and good deal of it has not been for the better.

 

[Windparadox]

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I graduated from high school in 2001. My oldest is in college (my alma mater) and my two other daughters are in high school. Kids are rejecting the values of people who support corrupt politicians, banks and the corporations. There is no adult leadership in this nation. They are finally waking up to that. I encourage it.
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[Borillar]

Every time a generation becomes the old farts of the world, its social conservatives rail against the younger generations. They see the world as scary and frightening because it’s not exactly as it was 60+ years before.

Hey, I resemble that remark, and I'm not a social con.

 

[LuckyDuck]

Boy the differences in environment is astonishing. I though the other day about phones and wondered if libraries are going to become obselete. After all, how many teenagers or even adults read these days?

As for 10-20 year olds, now way can a book be chosen over a video game, horror movies and Facebook.

Television wasn't so bad because it generally depicted a suburban or urban home that honored values and cursing was never part of a conversation. The mosr selacious television was murder mysteries and then My Three Sons or Mayberry were more popular.

If you really thought about our society today, we are in real trouble. Marriages are not lasting because often we are moral degenerates or or not even taken seriously. It is a "throw away alliance" that ends sometimes without much thought (about as much thought as there was in deciding on marriage.)

Where do you think we are going to be in the next 40 years? I shudder to think.

Parents don't discipline, won't allow the schools to do the same and parents look the other way when their kids get into drinking, drugs and smoking without consequence. Young people are not being held responsible for anything. What kind of world are we creating?

Is there anything we can do to reverse this trend?

One just has to look back at the sixties and seventies as the root of what we are now experiencing.