Kids Today?

   / Kids Today? #11  
Kinda starts at home,if adults really don't care/lazy...enough said.
 
   / Kids Today? #12  
How were the American Indians treated on their homelands? How were Blacks treated after they were "free"? Yes, much to reflect on......:rolleyes:

You can't change the past or what others do now, but you can control what YOU do;)

Don't get me wrong, in today's society, if I owned a business with a storefront and people were coming by to loot, the guns would be out first as a deterrent, and God forbid it had to go past that.
 
   / Kids Today? #13  
I told my wife the grandchildren are spoiled...she said all little kids smell like that...!
 
   / Kids Today? #14  
Kids today have it easy...when I was their age ...I had to walk 9 feet through shag carpet (both ways) to change the TV channel...!
 
   / Kids Today? #15  
What restored my faith in kids was back in the Spring doorbell rings early and a teenage asks "is this 1234 road?"...yes I say. "Well, I just hit your mailbox avoided hitting a dog...I need to fix it, here's my name and #).
Then his Mom shows up, worried about it.
I told him in 40 years my box had been hit 10 times...he's the first to stop!
Long story short he was 16, going to COLLEGE! Lives down the road. I had it fixed by the afternoon he stopped by, but he and I repainted it. I then asked if he'd like a paying job helping me, which worked out great.
I knew he was honest...and he is. He bought two identical cars cheap so he keeps one running (other a parts car). He lives a mile or so down the road.
That restored my faith in kids.
 
   / Kids Today? #16  
The world is filled with good people and good kids. Kinda like the old, gotta look past the trees to see the forest.
 
   / Kids Today? #17  
The world is filled with good people and good kids. Kinda like the old, gotta look past the trees to see the forest.

Unfortunately its a minority of angry, vengeful people filled with hate that ruin it for the good people who follow the rules, treat others with kindness and respect, live the lives God would want us to, go to work and raise good children.
 
   / Kids Today? #18  
I think more, that most people have a kind gentle facade only when they can afford it and the stakes aren't against them.

I always maintained that I would never ever marry a woman until I got into a really good fight with her. That's when you (most likely) know what you are truly dealing with.
 
   / Kids Today? #19  
Kinda starts at home,if adults really don't care/lazy...enough said.
This ^^^^^^ is so true. It all starts at home. Work ethic, responsibilities, attitudes, racism. Are all learned.
 
   / Kids Today? #20  
I'm of the opinion that genetics plays a key role in personality development and from one child to the next, sometimes you get a lazy one. But there's also an enabling environment that didn't correct that laziness.

I volunteered as a teacher and coach from the time I was 14 to about 34. So 20 years. Most kids when given proper coaching, can excel at almost anything. When they are a part of something with meaning, structure, and accountability they come around. The biggest issue I've seen is parents giving in to the kids' desire to quit or enabling the complaining when the going gets tough.

The shift to urban and even suburban living with two working parents has been a huge contributor to the entitlement mindset of younger generations. Most public schools are a disaster. Parents don't have the time to really focus on kids. It's a tough situation. But in the end every parent has a responsibility to raise a child and if the parents give up easily, then the kids will not develop into hardworking well balanced adults, and the cycle continues. Not to get political but that's what we're seeing across the country and to a lesser extent in other parts of the world as well.

As for the news that somebody mentored, well we'd all be better off if we just turned it off for a while.
 

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