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julietsierra -> RE: how sad our younger generation is today (12/2/2006 7:35:34 PM)
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ORIGINAL: slavejlb
hello
i am the one who posted this forum and i have to admit yes i have been hurt but it has gone beyond just being mental and emontial hurt. but i have also enjoyed reading the posting from both the young and the old, some of you have wisdom beyond your years. But you had to admit that the younger generation where although not all were left on their own as teenagers mother and fathers working or divorce, and knowing and understanding some of the most basic of coursties is what has made this land as good as it is today.
no not old people are trust worth, nor doms,
and not all people are for lact of a better that exscape me right now selfish brats.
but a person word is their bond,
take care and be safe
slave jlb
Wow... wonder if my mother knows this. Her mother (my grandmother) divorced the man she married way back in the 1930s after he brought home his g/f to help my grandmother take care of my mother. So... my mother is the child of a single mother.
My mother was a teacher and was NEVER EVER home when I got home from school. Does this mean I'm somehow ruder than others whose mothers did stay home?
I am a single parent. I am regularly complimented on the politeness of my children.
I am a high school teacher - in an urban school. I have some students who are indeed pretty rude. However, I know exactly why this is, and it has NOTHING to do with teenage parents who aren't in the home and EVERYTHING to do with not being at maturity level to understand what politeness and integrity is or even means. I have other students who are the epitome of politeness. Integrity to them requires that they be honest - even when it gets them into trouble.
At the same time, I've seen older adults who will yell at parents of small children simply because their mean was interrupted because a child spoke too loudly at the most refined establishment such as Big Boy. I've seen adults scream at young people because they are laughing outside a public building, thinking they were laughing at them.
Very rarely do older adults like to remember the days they skipped school, lied to their parents, snuck out of the house, were rude to their friends, were obnoxious to people they don't know. They usually remember the times they were good and compassionate, etc. Rarely do older adults see when children are doing well. It's far too easy to see when children are causing problems, making messes, lying and in general...<gasp> being children.
Young adults are no more and no less egocentric than they ever were. They believe the world revolves around them and that they are the center of the universe.
At the same time, older adults seem to believe that even if they are NOT the center of the universe, they darn well should be, and even if the world does NOT revolve around them, damn it, it should! They tend to believe that by the simple virtue of having been on this planet longer than the next person that they are somehow deserving of more respect than the one who is younger. It happens every single day when adults claim "those younger people don't respect older people!!"
Guess what. When older people treat younger people in poor ways, they are being just as bad as those they are complaining about and really, they need to take another look at just what the word "integrity" means and where they stand in that definition.
juliet
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