This exactly what's wrong with this generation

[spacemaverick]

Not true The previous generation just gave them video games and Iphones and told them "go outside and play"

The previous generation was not allowed to discipline the children for fear of going to jail for child abuse so they didn't teach this generation anything

The previous generation learned the hard way, went trough many wars. This generation is mostly spoiled brats that got every thing handed to them and now need puppies and cupcakes to over come the trauma when they get hit with reality

Fortunately MY kids were taught well

Zorgon, you almost always hit the nail right squarely on the head.  You nailed it.

[The Seeker]

Oh I hear you on that honey.

Armap I tried to teach by actions, it still didn't matter, two of my kids didn't give a you know what.

My mother was born in 1923 and had us late, this was before the discipline was taken away from my generation.

I think us baby boomers got the raw deal, disciplined and then given a raw deal by some of our kids and their "I am here now and entitled to bloody everything".

Roger That  "Spare the rod and spoil the child" has never been more truthful than now; the Gen-X'ers and millennial snowflakes are prime examples...

They need to understand something: no one owes them anything unless it is first earned by them...

their is no such thing as a free lunch, everything has a cost...

They are entitled to try and make their way through life as best they can; no one said it was easy, or all fun...

It is actually very simple: You want money, you earn it...

you want respect, you earn it...

Nothing in life is free; "Free speech" was bought and paid for with blood, sweat, and tears...

[petrus4]

At OKWU, we teach you to be selfless rather than self-centered. We are more interested in you practicing personal forgiveness than political revenge. We want you to model interpersonal reconciliation rather than foment personal conflict. We believe the content of your character is more important than the color of your skin. We don't believe that you have been victimized every time you feel guilty and we don't issue "trigger warnings" before altar calls.

I take responsibility for the fact that I am seeing these people, personally; that I am encountering them.  I share their faults.  I am weak, I am cowardly, and I blame others and my situation for my own shortcomings and lack of accomplishments.

I am to blame for my karma.  No one else.  If I am born on a planet alongside social justice warriors, Godless transhumanists, and others who view money as the only truth, then all I am seeing is a reflection of my own degenerate internal state.



Tat Vam Assi.  That thou art.  I will go back to Nimbin.  I will serve the most downtrodden elements of Australian society with tears as I have done there in the past, and I will pray that eventually, when enough of my own filth has been purged, my next birth will be in a place that I will find more pleasing.

[petrus4]

This generation is mostly spoiled brats that got every thing handed to them and now need puppies and cupcakes to over come the trauma when they get hit with reality

I prefer Minecraft, pizza, and around three litres of Coke, personally.

[zorgon]

Zorgon, you almost always hit the nail right squarely on the head.  You nailed it.

Carpenter I am yes? Hmmm? 

[zorgon]

.... three litres of Coke, personally.

The  phosphoric acid in that rots you from the inside out and makes you smell bad...



And your worried about "chemtrails" 

[space otter]

well so now we know what's wrong with this generation
how do we move on from here?

they have a rude awakening  and most will need heavy doses of anti-stress meds to cope

so now what ?

[Payton]

I prefer Minecraft, pizza, and around three litres of Coke, personally.

Me too!! And the best part is when mom brings it to me in the basement!

[Shasta56]

They need fresh air, sunshine, exercise, fruits, vegetables...
My grandkids have their moments of driving everyone crazy, but they're used to working for what they want.  They proved themselves responsible, so they now have five "pocket sausages" aka ferrets.  Percy, Paris, Panda, Andromeda, and Apollo are happy and healthy.

Shasta

[micjer]

Guess my wife and I were old school.  We did not give our kids everything they wanted.  Discipline was involved also.  Made them appreciate what they had and got.  They developed into hard working, polite individuals that we enjoy being with.  Their groups of friends have similar personalities.  "You are what your friends are".

There are many spoiled brats that have turned to drugs and have made a mess of their lives.  Many of them were given whatever they wanted.  Never knew what "no" meant.

[ArMaP]

I don't know about Portugal, ArMaP, but the American educational system is off the rails, big time.

It has been appropriated by the Left to further their political agenda.

Who controls the educational system? Is it not the people from the previous generation or the generation before?

[The Seeker]

Who controls the educational system? Is it not the people from the previous generation or the generation before?

Yes it is, ArMap; the problem started here with the turmoil of the 1960's, the hippies and protests against the Vietnam war, and many other factors, from President Lyndon Johnson and his "great society" (which started the entitlement snowball)  to hippies advocating free love now being teachers and professors at the universities

you have to be extremely careful over here for you can be put in jail for spanking your own child; extreme bovine feces that needs to be dealt with...

protect children from abuse, but allow parents to discipline their children...

[Ellirium113]

Where I live...you always fear what your kid say in school... All it takes is one stupid statement to the wrong person. One of my kids was overheard complaining "There is nothing to eat in the house"...actually meaning that there was nothing she WANTED to eat in the house...well the teacher told the school counsellor we had no food so child protective services came for a visit to see how we were starving our kids (of course there was lots of food). It is just that stupid. If you threaten your kid with discipline and they blab about it YOU pay the price not them. They get a free get out of jail card for anything so long as they run free at the mouth in the school. Parents are being put in a corner and are able to do less and less to deal with out of control kids with less recourse of action other than grounding which does very little. I shut down the Wi-Fi which is pure hell for them.

[The Seeker]

Where I live...you always fear what your kid say in school... All it takes is one stupid statement to the wrong person. One of my kids was overheard complaining "There is nothing to eat in the house"...actually meaning that there was nothing she WANTED to eat in the house...well the teacher told the school counsellor we had no food so child protective services came for a visit to see how we were starving our kids (of course there was lots of food). It is just that stupid. If you threaten your kid with discipline and they blab about it YOU pay the price not them. They get a free get out of jail card for anything so long as they run free at the mouth in the school. Parents are being put in a corner and are able to do less and less to deal with out of control kids with less recourse of action other than grounding which does very little. I shut down the Wi-Fi which is pure hell for them.

My point exactly, E: the system is creating the problem; Dealing with DEFACS is like dealing with the Gestapo or the old KGB

[Ellirium113]

One of my kids went through depression for a spell...CPS had a meeting with us and warned us "after talking with her we can tell you she is VERY suicidal." (She was not suicidal...she talked about it as she was depressed but she can't handle any sort of pain so she simply could NOT hurt herself even if she wanted to). That argument went on for a while...then we discussed discipline. I asked "So how do we discipline our child, she can not just have free reign because she is depressed." The answer was short and simple and NOT what I had expected to hear. The answer from them was "you DON'T." At that point I said "Well I am not accepting that as an answer" I made sure they had documented the entire conversation accurately then sent them off. I then had to go through the long process of getting doctors, psychologists etc. involved as it was mandated by CPS to do so...only to have all the professional help tell me what I already knew. Days and weeks wasted because CPS is completely inept at their jobs and has no place trying to tell people how to parent their own kids. None of them are qualified counsellors (around here anyways)  and the ones that visited us did not even have kids, one was single and the other was 6 months pregnant. Very frustrating.