AslanTheKing wrote:Woodruff wrote:
The truth is that I remember my generation when we were young people. There isn't a lot that's different
between those youth and today's youth. If anything, today's youth are more socially conscious than the youth of my generation.
i give u one simple example of the youth today
Ok. But one example really doesn't show the whole.
AslanTheKing wrote:young people are our future, and more important than our industry
I certainly agree with that.
AslanTheKing wrote:but the mayority of young people today has been pampered from small on
In modernized America, most children have been pampered. That's not a surprise.
AslanTheKing wrote:of course we want to give our children everything, but our world has become so moneyoriented that young people
dont have the right direction anymore, i am not talking about rich parents kids who go shopping with daddys creditcard
Our world was always money-oriented. Both of my parents worked when I was a kid, because they wanted a higher standard of living.
AslanTheKing wrote:they dont understand the value of money anymore, they want the nicest dress, the most expensive shoes,...
every kid has an iphone, ...
EVERY kid doesn't have a iPhone, but I will agree that cell phones are prolific. But that's largely because they're pretty cheap. Kids work, so they have money to spend. I don't see their working as being a negative, to be honest. They're learning some lessons that I wish I had learned as a young person.
AslanTheKing wrote:our world has changed, were hammered with adverts in every corner,
and it does influence the younger generation today, what values do they really get from there parents?
do the parents have the time to teach those kids the important things in life
As much as the parents ever did...absolutely.
AslanTheKing wrote:when we where young, we had no mobilephone to call mum and dad if we where in trouble,
we climbed the highest trees, and swam in the most dangerous places, or jumped from bridges
or had accidents with a bike, ....
we had to learn responsibility, today you just make a phonecall to get help
Uh...you believe that having a cell phone on you absolves you of responsibility or the threat of danger? If a young person falls out of that "highest tree", that cell phone isn't going to keep their leg from breaking. It might get someone there to help more quickly, however...and that is a very good thing. If a young person is swimming in a place they shouldn't be, that cell phone isn't going to keep them from drowning. But it might get someone there who can save their life more quickly...and that is a very good thing. If a young person jumps from a bridge, that cell phone isn't going to make them land in a way that won't injure them, potentially badly. But it might get someone there who can help them...and that is a very good thing. That cell phone won't keep an accident with a bike from happening. But it might get someone there who can help more quickly...and that is a very good thing.
NONE OF THE ABOVE is pampering in any way. It's potentially life-saving, however.
AslanTheKing wrote:we had to learn to survive, maybe i think so because i have been lucky
Learn to survive? Kids know a lot about surviving...unfortunately, the economy is teaching them that lesson the hard way.
AslanTheKing wrote:but today is a different life than 20 years ago
Yes, today is different. We definitely live in a different world than we did when I was a kid. But the young people really haven't changed that much, at least in a negative way.
AslanTheKing wrote:kids need direction and management, the problem is, that parents are not able today to do their job
I don't really agree with that. I mean, it happens some...but it always did.
Look, I will agree for instance that kids don't "go out and play" as much as they did when I was a kid. I've even talked about this before. If I had prolific video games available to me when I was a kid, I probably wouldn't have either, given how much I enjoy video games. There are more distractions these days from "playing outside". When I was a kid, television had what...four channels? Sports were a relatively uncommon thing on television. Books were really "the distraction" that kept kids from going outside. So yes, I would like to see them get more exercise. But that doesn't affect WHO THEY ARE...it doesn't affect their concerns, their social awareness, their interest in the world. Frankly, young people today are FAR MORE aware of the world in general than kids of my age. That's a very good thing.
And all that being said, kids do still go out and play football. A bunch of my cadets were talking about doing it this past weekend (although it's been quite cold, so they may have changed their minds).
...I prefer a man who will burn the flag and then wrap himself in the Constitution to a man who will burn the Constitution and then wrap himself in the flag.
