Problems facing the youth of today

Mine is a millenium, just turning 27.

He just finished 3 weeks of no days off. Lots of his friends are like him.

The youth of today??? if there is a problem, its the folks that are looking at them. Sure, some of em are idiots, but there a bunch of us boomer geezers who are idiots as well.

The one thing I think about is that we raised them. Just saying

 

Right on! I'm around young people a fair amount. I've met some very nice and aware people. Meet all kinds of people.

(Speaking to some other posts: It's a large and diverse group to be characterizing lol.)

 

OMG...after reading these replies I can only come to one conclusion! We've become OUR PARENTS! After all that the world has gone through in my lifetime, starting with Beatniks in the 50s and the Hippies of the 60/70s...we're back to square one! Lol. Don't get me wrong, it's not yet a bad thing...just our turn in the barrel to see life from a different perspective that only comes from longevity. The real question is more ominous: where will humanity go as a race with one part of society being able to advance itself, and the other part falling within the above descriptive narratives? If our turn in the barrel includes situations like the mass culling of the human herd that has plagued man's history, then are we ready and able to deter it's possibility, or are we doomed through our unprepared youth? Technology & Youth: Our Satan or Salvation?

 

Until I left home, I was a useless piece of flesh. Might still be. Could not cook, clean up or wash for myself. Didn't have to. I lived at home. I drank, drugged and chased girls. worked only when I had to.

Ended up working in the capitalist world like most of the rest of my compatriots.

I lived in a glass house so can't throw stones.

 

Big hordes of old people

 

Problems facing the youth of today=tomorrow's youth.....

 

They will start worrying about that when they are old and tomorrow's youth is already there (like it goes for centuries already)!

 

My son is just a sweet kid that get's a lot of hard work in Kung Fu an football.
Pray for our youth.

 

Biggest problems..

propaganda that spews out of the television and popular music..violent video games are not much help either

 

I think there are quite a few issues that kids face these days. The glorifying of thug culture, not to mention everywhere you look, people are propagating rape culture. And the system of college needs basically a complete overhaul or something.

Thuggery & Violence: In pop culture, they've made it cool to be a gangster. Drugs and violence have become the norm. I think rappers play a key role in that because of the content of their lyrics. Most of it is about partying and getting messed up, or basically being a criminal. Because it's cool. What?

Rape culture: Just look around. Recently, there have been dress codes imposed in colleges banning girls from wearing shorts or tank tops because it could distract the male students and professors, like they're animals that can't be bothered to control themselves. Please. Women are being objectified left and right, and (while this is nothing new) it shouldn't be happening in this day and age. I'd like to think we've come farther than that, but apparently not.

College: What a bunch of crap. Yes, a higher education is important. You essentially need some kind of degree to get an alright job. But, in my experience, most colleges are just after one thing: money, duh! It's an industry. They make you take all these pointless classes that you don't really need, charge you a ridiculous amount for tuition, impose all sorts of pointless fees, some of which shouldn't apply to certain groups of students (as they aren't using the goods or services these fees pay for). People have to take out loans and go into crippling, lifelong debt just to get a decent education. Then, to top it all off, if you go bankrupt, it doesn't forgive the student loans that probably made you go bankrupt in the first place.
Not to mention, the country has made core classes more of a priority and taken less emphasis on humanities. It's like humanities are totally unimportant and irrelevant. This is definitely not the case. The humanities promote the knowledge and critical thinking skills necessary to be a well-informed citizen. That's what college used to be about! It was for people to gain better knowledge in different areas, become more well-rounded and productive. To really learn about the world around them. Now it's all about immediate employability so that you can (maybe someday) pay off your massive student debts. It's extremely disheartening.

 

Well basically I would say outside of being forced to go to school. Which isn't Nazi but some consider it so. They are in pretty good shape. Until there is a draft to go to war. They should be ok. Imagine us clawing at the walls trying not to get sent to the jungle to get shot at maimed, killed or wounded. They didn't like out kind. We fled to all kinds of places in the U.S. not just Canada. God together and caused all kinds of problems. They tried organizing us out of universities. Not trusting the man many of us faced the choice of prison or war.

The separation of the elite from the regular people when it came to war. Which had a real contrast then. Seems to have disappeared. Which is ok by me. I don't care. It's only when your going to be shot and someone else isn't that bothered me.

So their are lot of downsides of course. Just don't start a draft.

 

The problem with kids these days is the parents are not doing there job . and there are no real heros any more. People that stood up for what was right. And with all of these people that say every one needs to win A kid cant learn there place in life. and what I mean is not every one is an artist ,or an athlete, or story writer etc. Have you heard of a commune with only black smiths . surly people have to have other skills to make the system work. Also younger generations have no respect for there elders. this is do to the parents not doing there job. Kids should be corrected when doing something wrong. if the parent says he/she is just a kid and dosent express to the kid that they did wrong then how will they know. Even living free has rules. You cant live free if the person next to you is living free and is disrupting your freedom.

 

And what makes you think some of the hippy crowd wasn't drawn in because of less-than-legal activities and party aspects?

Still, I have to agree... the difference between then and now was how they acted, regardless of legalities. Hippies, in part,easily be portrayed as standing for less-than-law-abiding lifestyles, but they did it peacefully. Today, rap culture promotes one thing in common and one thing exactly the opposite - less than legal activities, but promoting violence and bad-ass-edness. Or a pathetic attempt at it, anyway. The point being that violence is what this quote from your post is really getting at.

 

they have too much technology and distractions, not enough free time. too much violence in the world, they've grown apathetic, jaded, unaffected. they have no idea what they've missed out on.

 

why not tell them then

 

I think it is being made to grow up and lose innocence too quickly. I think kids needs to enjoy being children and the simple things of life..... like Andy Griffith

 

I always show them what kind of violence in the world they're missing out on :2thumbsup:

 

It's vanity. Appearances, money, the way you smell, what kind of car you drive -- all this is more important than just being a cool person.

 

College should be about learning, not employability.

 

I agree. A lot of my friends have gone off to university but their opinion is they'll get a job when they graduate and it's just not like that at the moment with the problems in the workforce. What's worse is knowledge doesn't mean experience and almost every job I look at you need some sort of experience which must be disheartening to people who graduate and aren't given the chance to gain that experience in the work force. When I screen potential employees for my team if they're straight out of college you just have to be upfront with them, no you won't be on 50k a year even with your qualifications. Start at the bottom, work your way up and your qualifications will help you in the future. I'm all about helping people get started and to progress in my work team. I don't really want to see or have the same team members after 12-18mths. My personal objective is to progress their careers along.