candrew
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I read the article as an indictment against the older generation - overall anyway.
40 Signs That We Have Seriously Messed Up The Next Generation Of Americans
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I read the article as an indictment against the older generation - overall anyway.
These ones seem to be related:
37. One out of every four teen girls in the United States now has an STD.
39. One survey found that one out of every five teen girls actually wants to be a teen mom.
37. One out of every four teen girls in the United States now has an STD.
39. One survey found that one out of every five teen girls actually wants to be a teen mom.
It's funny how horrified we are that kids don't have what it takes to be an adult. You know what makes a kid gain the skills needed to be an adult? Necessity. You live in an apt with your buddies, you go to work, the bills come due. Either you're the one always paying the bills on time and taking care of business or you're the one who gets kicked out because you don't. It doesn't take long to gain the magical skills needed to be an adult, just reality hitting you in the face a few times.
This. It's great to be friends with your kids and have a good relationship with them, but you need to be a parent first, even if it means being upopular with your kids at times.
I can't tell you how often my wife and I fight about this. Frankly, it bugs the **** out of me that my kids will always hate me deep down, but my wife takes little to no action with regards to discipline, which means I get to do it all. Oh well.
Gyp Rosetti
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Holy **** this. I was about to go off on a mom about her lack of parenting on a recent plane ride.
Gyp Rosetti
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So your wife's an invertebrate?
Thee Jazz Fan
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The guy that wrote that is an idiot speaking out of his ***, and I'm in my 30's. This guy maybe knows less then 1% of the young population in the world, and he's judging the next generation off that less then 1%. Brilliant!!
CONAN
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Lame. It took some time but my wife came around after being raised in an enabling home. No question she is the more compassionate which is good but she doesn't get run over either. She's probably at the perfect level while I definitely err on the side of discipline but screw being one of those parents who worry too much about friending their kid. No thanks losers.
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As they get older, their appreciation for you will only grow more and more. I know personally, my father was always the friendlier, more passive parent; whereas my mum was the hardass, who would find any slight imperfection and resort to punishment (including physical). Still gives me **** on a regular basis, but its largely because she has insane high expectations for her children. Despite all of this, I love her, and get along with her and understand her more than my father. Tough love is the sort of love you don't understand at the time, but you appreciate it that much more as you get a bit older.
I certainly know what sort of parent I will be. Im pretty much a walking clone of my mum. Most-certainly will give my kids **** on a regular basis if I ever as so much smell that theyre dogging it in any way whatsoever
If you discipline them well, they will not hate for it.
I'm a talker and ponderer, so I always aimed to 1) explain carefully why something was wrong (if you can't explain why its wrong ...), and 2) think about the punishment to make sure it fit the crime and the child in both size and type.
jimmy eat jazz
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10,000 years ago (or however long it was), Neanderthal parents bitched to each other about how their children were lazy, didn't respect authority, were unmotivated, didn't help out around the cave, etc.
Every generation complains about the one following it. By the process of infinite regress, today's generation (hell, the last 100 generations), should have been the most shiftless, lazy, losers that one could possibly be.
Do you share all your posts on this forum with your mum?
jimmy eat jazz
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Well, if you buy into Social Conservative rhetoric, we apparently discovered sex in the 1960s.
Many of the items on this list lack any kind of historical, social, cultural, etc. perspective that makes assessing them difficult. (I did not care to follow up on all of the links.) Plus, some of the stats frankly do not pass the sniff test to me, appearing more like inflated claims of advocates than actual, careful research (e.g., 50% of children will be on food stamps before 18). Plus, many of the items have nothing to do with 'the next generation' but are actually multi-generational issues.
This strikes me as one manifestation of the 'doomsday' genre, that attempt to shock us with outrageous statistics of often questionable provenance and often questionable interpretation. The unstated objective of such is often to encourage us to think back to some mythical good ol' days of yore when people were honest, earnest, sexually pure, courteous, polite, and governed by good old fashioned values. Of course, this mythical time was just that, mythical.
Frankly, if I had my choice, I'd choose to live today than in any other time in history. Aside from the fact that I'd be dead by now otherwise, the opportunities available in this country today are so much greater to so many more people representing a cross-section of society, that nothing even comes close. Sure we have problems, but I tell you what, if I were female, black, gay, etc., there's no way in hell I'm longing for the good ol' days.