Is it normal to feel hopeless about this generation's kids?

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When I look at my teen years and compare them to this generation's teens', I'm shocked at how drastically worse theirs' are lived compared to mine. I mean of course all teens are going to do questionable things through the generations. Me and my friends used to steal liquor from our dads and hit the town. But we knew it was wrong and eventually grew out of it. Today's teens get drunk at parties on a day-to-day basis, and don't even begin to think its wrong. They act like its only right to drink liquor. Heck, me and some of my closest friends, both genders, went to the lake after graduation and skinny-dipped all night. We even made out and slept together. But we only did it as a special celebration of a new stage in our lives beginning. Teens today will go to parties every night and strip naked and knock up people they barely know. Can you see the problem now? In my day, teenage-shenanigans were a part of growing up and were spread out in different stages. They were wholesome events that made us more mature somehow. And now today's teens are making all these dirty events part of their daily routine. They take over their identities and morales. While my generation did all this towards maturing as an adult, this generation does it solely to be wreckless without consequence. I hate to sound like an old fart but what do you think?

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  • dappled
    11 years ago

    I think you're taking the behaviours of the few and attributing them to the many. It was no different when I was 18 and I had to hear from my parent's generation how easy we had it, how hopeless we are, how dissolute.

    I'll be honest, I was a kid at 18. I wasn't ready for the world. Today's 18 year olds aren't kids. They're ahead of where I was at the same age. I'm quite proud of many of them. And I think we should say it now and again.

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    • NeuroNeptunian
      11 years ago

      This.

      OP you're making an awful lot of generalizations and assumptions that the generation before you made about you.

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  • shade_ilmaendu
    11 years ago

    Really? You're worried about kids partying, staying out late and experimenting with their friends?

    I'm worried about the fact that young girls use people like Edward Cullen as their idea for a real relationship. That Toddlers in Tiaras exists. That many schools don't teach proper sex education, and that parents prefer to shelter and baby their children, thus leaving them ill prepared to handle the real world.

    Know what my boyfriend's parents did for all their kids, and some other families I knew? Once the kid was 15 or so, and started getting curious about liquor, they would choose a supervised event and let the kid drink as much as they want... usually they would end up sick. Those people are now less likely to surpass their limits.

    I don't see anything wrong with any of the things you are complaining about, it's fine to drink in moderation and there is nothing wrong with having (safe!!) sex. What scares me more than that is kids today are cruel, thoughtless, selfish and entitled. What scares me is that people are forgetting how to think for themselves, and future generations have to wade through a mire of trivial culture and sheepish mentality.

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  • LivT
    11 years ago

    I'm just worried about the music SOME of them listen to ie one direction, nicki minaj, justin Bieber ect. Give me nirvana any day!

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  • yellowtapebottle
    11 years ago

    For fuck sakes, everyone stop hating. I just asked if it was normal for me to THINK this. I didn't ask for your opinions or why you think I'm wrong. This site isn't called "Is It Wrong". Feel free to disagree with my opinion, but don't lash out here.

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    • shade_ilmaendu
      11 years ago

      Actually, the statement "Is it normal to think this" is indeed asking for our opinions.

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  • doecommajames
    11 years ago

    You, my kind, moralistic friend need to step down from your pedestal and quit overgeneralizing "the youth." I'm 17 and have never been intoxicated, I've never inhaled, and I'm still a virgin. (Oh no, did I just mention that? I'm so embarassed.) Not every teenager gets drunk on a day-to-day basis, as you mentioned we all do. I'm proud to say that even though I'm still considered a child by society, I had a damn-good childhood. It's people like you who believe that this generation has nothing to offer, and it's people like you who make people like me feel like we shouldn't even try and offer the things we can! You're not above any one of us. You may stand taller and believe you're better than us, but you're sadly mistaken. There are kids in my generation who have so much to offer, but small-minded individuals like yourself won't listen long enough to see that. So please don't try and convince us that we're the tainted youth, because there are people out there that stand on much higher ground than you.

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  • anti-hero
    11 years ago

    Stealing, underage drinking, and fucking are now wholesome?

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  • jitterbug66
    11 years ago

    The previous generation always thinks the next generation is dumber even though it has been disproven many times.

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  • Austalien
    11 years ago

    I would have to agree with Doug Stanhopes opinion about this question it's called this generation sucks google it for some hard hitting truths and the lols

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  • FocoUS
    11 years ago

    It's normal to be concerned. Kids these days are in a bad place. It's not just the rule breaking that's glorified. Eating disorders are on a rise. Suicide rates among teenagers (and children) are on a rise. Youth depression. I think it's all pressure. Pressure to be cooler, to be sexier, to be smarter, to be ideal.

    But things will change. In the 1950s there was a rise of racism, homophobia, poverty, and sexism. Everybody was trying to fit in the impossible ideal of the nuclear family, some never could. It was bad. Teenagers were going steady at age 12. Some high schools had marriage councilors what with all the married teens. And depression was on the rise. What happened after the 50s was the 60s. And we all know the 60s turned everything upside down. I think young people will just snap under the pressure and reject all the expectations they have now much like the youth in the 60s did. So don't be hopeless.

    There are a few people or groups that are apart from this crazy time, that make it through alright and try to make things easier for other youth. But I don't think that's enough.

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