Martin Luther King Day
 

From what I can see...we are raising our children to expect immediate gratification. They are being spoiled...have everything they want.
I don't know what these kids will be like when they enter the work force...I see alot of people getting into credit card debt...see lots of bankruptcies in the future...
maybe I am pessimeistic...
all of the techno things to learn and "keep up with"
I wonder how many kids actually think they have the right to have cell phones? and not a privelage...
~sigh
Some one tell me I am wrong....
I am not a parent but it sure looks bleak to me....
bizi

Our Town
 

I guess we are in an area that is still backward Bizi. Kids don't have cell phones. Few Moms do, many mons have a second car now, what an uproar when when one Mom got a Hummer...but parked it when gas went up to $3.25 a gal. Most have used cars. WE go to consignment shop to find lable clothing, kids take group dance lessons, kids take buses to school don;t drive. Many kids have after school jobs, watch their siblings, or tutor.

the school system has only 3,000 students in all grades K-12. Some go to voc tech, soccer players, little leauge, football and basketball, Girls take states in Hockey Near Yearly. Most boy serve on the volunteer fire company, and girls the ambulance and fire company. One boy went to Pittsburg steelers, another recently on another team, we had a basketball player playing pro right now.

BUt, I did have kids in groups that had the parties with illegal activites in certain gangs that were upper class neighborhoods. In fact their parents had them there and would cover it up. Kids have big bowl of any pills from parents they could find, perc's, valium, xanax was a biggie, Klonopin, and Oxy's. ANother biggie was whipetts, nitrous gas. They buy cansters for whip cream, look like the paint ball canasters and inhale the gas, robs the blood of oxygen.......

I also had several Accidents DUI that teens were killed.
scary stuff, but it was the few the group, the kids that had the mucho money, no job, no responsibility, no accountability,

The busier the teen was and more responsibility, the kinder and more generous they were. Up here outside the Poconos anyway
Di

Happy Holiday to all.

Yes, there are still good and bad in kids these days I suppose. I see it on the news at least. I don't have kids either.

befuddled2

I guess I am kind of in the middle of you all. I was born in '72 so I missed all the historically interesting times of the '60s. The first things I remember of historcal value are the bicentennial, the Iran Hostage Crisis and the Irish Hunger Strike. I just finished reading a book on the hunger strikers and am working on reading a book about the hostage crisis. I guess getting my bachelor's and master's in history makes me a little more aware of our country's recent past than most people my age (my husband for example). Even now, most people don't really pay attention to current events like they should AND how they are connected to the last 50 years of our participation in world events.
Kids today just are so self-involved. Then again weren't we at that age too? But nowadays I feel that there is to much PC in schools and they are afraid to talk to kids about world events. Then eventhough they are connected to the world in a way we never were with the internet, they still are not aware of the world at large. Then again, the news is so PC its hard to watch.
Its a shame. As the saying goes, those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.