What's with this new generation?

hollydolly said:
I am not about to send a kid I barely know.. a text just to get their attention...that's never going to happen. Either the parents teach them manners or they don't....it's a concern that the young will lose the ability completely to hold a conversation unless it's tapped out on a keyboard
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I've got one grandson that has been having some struggles with finding his best path in live. I don't mean he gets in trouble, I mean the phrase failure to launch might apply. Some conversations we've had are beginning to open some thought portals for him. He didn't feel college was for him but was a little embarrassed to discuss trade school or such avenues. In a call the other day he told me about a trade school he is interested in and I'm helping him line up the financing for it. I hope this is his path and I want to be around to quietly cheer him on.
 

hollydolly said:
yes... it's great if the parents are teaching them that they must learn to speak properly to people when they 're addressed and not be so hooked on the phone being the only thing that matters..as they all seem to be here...

A lot of it here is because the youths just are not given anything or anywhere to go . In the US & Canada..Sports are a huge thing for kids.. here.. no..there's almsot nothing....... they're left to their own devices unless they're interested in music and attend classes for a specialist subject but on the whole, very unlike the US and Canada, there very little for the Youth of the UK to do but to hang around in groups and use their phones as tho' it beat their own heart for them...
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While living in a rural area like ours had definite advantages from a safety aspect, it also made getting our children involved in positive activities more difficult. With our first two children some of that was even an economic challenge for us. The with our younger two we were better situated financially, and turned the tables on the older two. We tried to get them engaged in some of the teaching and molding process of their younger siblings.

It didn't always turn out as desired, but I think the older boys saw that we were trying and looking back they were an amazing positive influence. I wish I had been exposed to those influences when it was my turn to be young. I think I benefited from some street smarts that my children missed out on, and some of it I'm darn glad they missed.
 
My growing up experience was always being the new kid in town, thirteen schools in twelve years. Ad to that the fact that I was a trailer court kid, usually living in a lesser neighborhood. In spite of that I had a mother and siblings who gave me encouragement and even sheltered me from some of the worst parts when I was very young. That's what I mean by saying I benefited from some street smarts. They gave me the push I needed to be the first one in our family to complete a college education. I was also the first to be drafted and serve in a combat role. It can't all be good but the outcome can be.
 

Kids today care about Video games, video shorts. The smarter assed those may seem to us the better the kids go for them.
Maybe they like Soccer, or indoor entertainment exercise facilities. Something like SSSniperwolf comes to mind. 32 years + old.

The more expensive it is for parents the better the kids go for it. Skateboards seem mostly out now, but the Bowls with them seem to entertain them. I guess personal safety doesn't ring a bell, may not be important to them. They fall taking selfies.
 
papa tiger said:
Kids today care about Video games, video shorts. The smarter assed those may seem to us the better the kids go for them.
Maybe they like Soccer, or indoor entertainment exercise facilities. Something like SSSniperwolf comes to mind. 32 years + old.

The more expensive it is for parents the better the kids go for it. Skateboards seem mostly out now, but the Bowls with them seem to entertain them. I guess personal safety doesn't ring a bell, may not be important to them. They fall taking selfies.
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My kids had Atari and Frogger and they weren't gang thugs. I think the breakdown in the family unit and constructive discipline are much more to blame. I didn't talk back to mom, I knew what soap tasted like. I didn't talk back to teachers either, I felt a paddle a few times. One of my one liners is this, "my mom only raised one fool, and all six of us argued about who it was."
 
hollydolly said:
However I have noticed that the teens here don't seem to know how to hold a conversation with an adult...on several occasions now , if I've had the need to speak to a teen, they just turn away as tho' I'm invisible. No reply.. no nothing.. completely ignored..
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Yes, the kids where I live are oddly disrespectful. The run across our back yard as if it was public property, and sometimes they come and ring the front doorbell and then run away. Just today someone left a wad of chewed gum on our front porch ledge. I don't know them and can't understand why they behave the way they do.
 
carouselsilver said:
and sometimes they come and ring the front doorbell and then run away.
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I haven't had that happen to me - but I don't think it is a new thing.

Have read several memoirs of people who grew up during WW2 and they mention daring kids to run up to front doors, ring or knock then run away
 

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