What is wrong with our younger generation?

[ChickenAlgebra]

x whatever number now, it's not the kids, it's the parents.

My kids know to sit down and write a handwritten, legible thank you note for anything they receive or to anyone who attends a party for them. Even my 3 y/o will draw a picture for thanks at least and print her name and "Thanks" on the picture.

Usually around 12/13, ours have all done the eye rolling, hissy fit over writing a note. They then get zip from us or in-laws for the next occassion. It's amazing how fast that whining and bad manners get fixed. I will not always be over their heads nagging to get them to write. But they can learn VERY quickly and painlessly (for ME!) on what happens when one is not polite and generous with their thanks.

 

[saddina]

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Yep. Gen X was iffy but the millenials my sister's age expect everything to be handed and the parents hover. My personal favorite teens who have thier own cars, but don't know how to pump gas, because thier parents fill up the cars for them.

 

[gritsar]

That's why I said the apples (children) don't fall far from the trees (parents).

My former boss, the same age as I am (in her 40s) only had one child, a girl now in her 20s. Boss spoiled that child like no other, did so many things that made us employees think that boss was trying to re-live her teenage years vicariously through her daughter.

Boss approached me one day and asked for a strange favor. She was aware that her daughter was driving dangerously - speeding, texting while driving, etc. Boss didn't want to intervene in her DD's dangerous driving herself. She asked me to have my DH, a police officer, stop the DD as she left school one day and "scare some sense into her", but NOT give her a ticket. DH's reply was that he would stop the girl if he observed such driving, but he wouldn't let her off with a warning. She'd get a ticket like everyone else that did the same thing. Boss said no thanks. She didn't want her child to get a ticket even if she was clearly in the wrong.

 

[chickensioux]

When my 19 yr. old graduated from HS, I had him write a thank you note for every gift he rec'd as well as one to the ones that just sent congratulations cards. Will he do this when he lives on his own.......who knows? I sure hope so.

 

[ChooksinChoppers]

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Just ....WOW!

 

[Illia]

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Ditto. In a big way.

Exactly!

 

[Avalon1984]

The bad thing is that people my age get mixed in with this group. People expect me to be on facebook 24/7, have cell phones, don't care, need instant gratification, etc. because I am the "younger generation". Freakes people out when I tell them I don't have a cell, I am not on FB but I do have a farm

 

[Illia]

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Ditto again. I'm only 20, and, well, - I don't use FB, or Twitter, or have a Cellphone (or iPhone or whatever) and I don't chit chat to people all day long, if I do, it is about something relative to poultry, gardening, entomology, or philosophy. I'm a full time farmer, and actually, it was my choice too. My family weren't farmers, but when it came the choice that I move onto college or whatever, I kinda wanted instead to be a farmer and do the other things I love on the side at home. (computer animation and entomology)

 

[darkmatter]

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Yes, I understand there has been found Roman graffiti to that effect.

 

[Orchid]

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Yes, I understand there has been found Roman graffiti to that effect.