How do you view young people now that you're older?

charry said:
I think the youngsters are very selfish and have been spoilt !
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You are probably right. In her working life my wife showed care and compassion, it went with her job as a paramedic, but she had no time for malingerers. Two examples that I heard about, the first was through her colleagues. A young teenage boy of about fifteen, writhing in agony on the football field following a tackle. My wife knew an injury from a fake performance: "Get up," she commanded, he looked at her, "get up," she repeated, giving him a withering glare. He got up.

She's used that stare to good effect elsewhere. In the supermarket, a small boy of about eight years of age, being a right little sh*t, running amok and causing mayhem, completely ignored by his mother, got the stare. Actually it was her brilliant school ma'am stare. She had her specs on and the kid got the full, over the top of the rim, glare. Poor little sh*t, I almost felt sorry for him.

His vocabulary wasn't all that good either, I overheard mother saying: "What do you mean, she looked at you?"
 

As an older person I view young people with curiosity. I see thair language the same way I view a foreign language - I have no idea what they're talking about, but I smile and nod anyway. It's like they're speaking a whole different dialect, filled with repeated words and phrases that are totally foreign to me.

But hey, if they don’t speak like what I do then I’m ok with that, big time! I just want them to be like true to themselves, isn’t it. Some people don’t seem to want to be what they are; they want to be someone else or some s#@t like that. I’m always myself & I don’t care like what anyone says, because this is me & that’s what I am or whatever. :) Don’t restrict the rights and stuff of young people to be what they are or they might want some compensation and this that and the other.
 
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Right Now said:
I view younger people the same way I did when I was one myself. The assortment comes in an array of sizes and shapes, and view points on life.
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Hadn't read the other replies at 1:30 or so but had to take DD to work. Then had some online 'business' to take care of---come back to type my first thoughts on reading the title and see you've written very close to my feelings/thoughts:

i form my opinions of 'young' people the same way i've always formed opinions about people: On an individual basis, what the person says and does---not anything else.

As for those who take a very negative view of kids today---i ask as i often do--Who raised them? You, your relatives/friends/neighbors?


People are people....judge for their own words and deeds.
 
Marian said:
From what I’ve seen in the past few years, they don’t lump us in any kind of box at all. They don’t even see us. We are invisible to them.
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That's the way older people were to us when we were young. Remember our motto: "Never trust anyone over 30"? And "Hope I die before I get old"?

One difference is, we could get ahead with a college education. Today's kids, I'm not so sure. AI is going to eliminate a lot of jobs... especially tech jobs. Competition for the remaining jobs is going to be intense.
 
We watch House Hunters International, and most of the individuals or couples moving to other countries are young people who are tired of the 24/7 work grind and want to live somewhere (even temporarily) where they can find a better quality of life. I admire them for this.

I would have never had the courage to move to another country when I was in my 20's or 30's. I admire them for their spirit of adventure and their desire to experience other cultures. I always wonder where they are going to find the income to continue their lifestyles, but at least they are finding a balance in life. We Baby Boomers never did.
 
I view younger people than me and wonder what their lives may be like. With the projected increased world pollution and wars, increased crimes and corruption. If they and their children may live in a world of terrible chaos and evil.
 
I do not have much involvement with youngsters but some appear entitled, with little or no respect for themselves or anybody else, others take their education seriously, are kind and thoughtful

Having said this, my heart breaks for them, I feel they have been ruined before they’ve had a chance, by their upbringing, media, and society in general, with all this gender business, drugs, violence, etc. god knows how they will turn out
 
jimintoronto said:
What you just described in one word....Empathy .......is lacking in the young. Although some of them do jump on the "important thing of the week " like campaigning to get farmers to put clothes on their cows, or some other such nonsense. JimB.
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In Germany they glue themselves on the streets. They call themself "The Last Generation". Their extremely silly actions have already taken the life of a female teacher in Berlin. She was ran over by a truck and got caught and since the special lifting trolley got into the traffic jam caused by them the truck could not be lifted and had to overrun her a second time. She died at the hospital.
 
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It seems like each generation tries its best to differentiate itself from previous generations. In my (perhaps "our") case, it was the rock & roll, long hair, and protests against the Viet Nam war and "the establishment". This generation seems to be a bit more about their tattoos, rainbow-colored hair, and gender identity. I see it, and I watch it but for the most part, it has had little impact on me at this stage of my life. I worry far, far more about the profoundly flawed performance of our state and federal governments. The kids will eventually sort things out and find their own path.
 
seadoug said:
We watch House Hunters International, and most of the individuals or couples moving to other countries are young people who are tired of the 24/7 work grind and want to live somewhere (even temporarily) where they can find a better quality of life. I admire them for this.

I would have never had the courage to move to another country when I was in my 20's or 30's. I admire them for their spirit of adventure and their desire to experience other cultures. I always wonder where they are going to find the income to continue their lifestyles, but at least they are finding a balance in life. We Baby Boomers never did.
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well I did..lol... but of course the world has opened up completely these days for the young in a way that it was never open for us.. far more difficult when were young to travel, and buy property or businesses abroad... Now the young through the eye of the internet can see and experience what is available in every corner of the planet, and take full advantage of it..
 
Their music sucks! I know my parents probably thought the same about my music, but they were wrong. Every generation of kids have to have their own music, but we had the best! Even my younger sister has said that she wished that when she was growing up, she had the kind of music my elder sister and I had, to listen to.

Come on ! Elvis, Buddy Holly, The Beatles, Bob Dylan, The Rolling Stones, Motown, Beach Boys, Peter, Paul, & Mary, Eric Burdon & the Animals, Dave Clark Five, The Platters, Doo Wop music, Folk Music, Woodstock! How can you beat that? Even Sinatra is better than this present day crap.
 
I view them as under educated. They have easier access to higher education than my generation did, but more and more college and university education is one-sided, and extremely so at ivy-league schools where students are pushed toward majoring in humanities, social activism and culture studies rather than science, technology and medicine.

So higher education in the US is woefully incomplete, imo. I hate that "Work smarter, not harder" motto. It's decptive and harmful.
 

“The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers.” ― Socrates​

 

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