My generation..

[CAP1]

i'm stuck in the 60's 70's and 80's for music.

right now, at the shop, i listen to talk radio, because there's no music radio stations worth listening to anymore.

gonna get sirius soon.......

[Guppy35]

Each generation faces it's own demons and each generation overcomes them.

I hate that we label the WW2 generation "The Greatest Generation".  It's an insult to them in my eyes.  They were just like us and they did what they had to do.  That makes it more of an accomplishment. 

I've worked with 'troubled teens' for the last 25 years.  I have yet to meet a bad kid.  I've met some kids who have made bad decisions but that tends to come from the parenting or lack therof.

While doing this job I got a real jaded view of teenagers.  Then my own kids wandered through those years.  My wife and I got involved in their stuff and lo and behold it looked an awful lot like my teenage years.  99 percent of the parents are doing their job and dealing with their kids.  99 percent of the kids are doing just fine.

Bottom line is the 99 percent doing OK don't make news.  It's way to easy to make it doom and gloom.  And with the never ending saturation of communication it's easier to make things overly dramatic.

Bottom line is I think most kids are doing just fine and I look forward to raising my youngest now and seeing how he conquers the world.

[stealth]

Well obviously I'm a kid. I to slightly agree with this and even blame my self. I even feel now a days kids are so lazy, It's almost like you gotta be fat to be cool.( no offense) Honestly it's hard to see a normal kid in my school. Now a days no kids can even take a joke, they freak out and get violent enough for an OSS (Out of School Suspension). Also I have an A in Language Arts which just shows the education they teach today pretty quick, I'm in 7th grade though so it will improve. Lastly their physical strength is gone, their attitude to be nice. They can't even do hard enough punches if a fight happens. I think it's to much television unless it's the Disney Channel or Discovery. It is though afterall 7th grade for me, the 13 year old girls keep tabs on how much they hate each other in their note books.

I see you guys do care about this genoration and the next. I can't say anymore though because I'm probably to young to even understand what caring really is. Just help the this genoration and the next, with an act of random kindness.

[bagrat]

When i was a kid we used to have to walk 15 miles to school uphill in the snow, both ways! Everybody had a job and they worked for free, in fact at the end of the day we came out in debt, and we were glad. We used to play football in the streets and run through glass bare footed because we couldn't afford shoes even though we worked from 5am to 8pm while going to school and maintaining our grades. You wanna talk about fighting, forget about it half the time somebody got killed if not then they both ended up dead! All these ipods and tv's you kids have nowadays to entertain yourselves  and you still say you're bored. We used to have to entertain ourselves with dirt if we had if enough money to buy it. If I told my parents I was bored they would beat me until CPS came and then they would beat me too for giving my parents a hard time. You kids don't know how good you have it.  

[stealth]

Well I'm kinda of a special kid I get entertained VERY EASILY. Plus like when sports we're coming barely anybody signed up they though they we're "to cool" when they can't even walk 5 miles. Especially this young.

[EskimoJoe]

Well obviously I'm a kid. I to slightly agree with this and even blame my self. I even feel now a days kids are so lazy, It's almost like you gotta be fat to be cool.( no offense) Honestly it's hard to see a normal kid in my school. Now a days no kids can even take a joke, they freak out and get violent enough for an OSS (Out of School Suspension). Also I have an A in Language Arts which just shows the education they teach today pretty quick, I'm in 7th grade though so it will improve. Lastly their physical strength is gone, their attitude to be nice. They can't even do hard enough punches if a fight happens. I think it's to much television unless it's the Disney Channel or Discovery. It is though afterall 7th grade for me, the 13 year old girls keep tabs on how much they hate each other in their note books.

I see you guys do care about this genoration and the next. I can't say anymore though because I'm probably to young to even understand what caring really is. Just help the this genoration and the next, with an act of random kindness.

It gets worse as you get into highschool. Though I don't know how you see the world and never will, I can tell you that your eyes will open as you get older. There will become a point were you truly see and feel how much the world sucks, and how pointless life can be. Do note I said can be, not is. Maybe it's where you live where the kids are like that. Here in Alaska there aren't too many fat kids (minus the few chubby eskimos here and there). Laziness is of course common, but the attitude, maturity, and intelligence of the majority is sub-par in my mind.

But then again, this is only one opinion and should be taken with a grain of salt. You'll grow up your own way, as did I and (I assume) the rest of the community here. All I can really say is good luck, keep a positive attitude, and for gods sake have your work ethic down before you hit Highschool!

[CAP1]

Each generation faces it's own demons and each generation overcomes them.

I hate that we label the WW2 generation "The Greatest Generation".  It's an insult to them in my eyes.  They were just like us and they did what they had to do.  That makes it more of an accomplishment. 

I've worked with 'troubled teens' for the last 25 years.  I have yet to meet a bad kid.  I've met some kids who have made bad decisions but that tends to come from the parenting or lack therof.

While doing this job I got a real jaded view of teenagers.  Then my own kids wandered through those years.  My wife and I got involved in their stuff and lo and behold it looked an awful lot like my teenage years.  99 percent of the parents are doing their job and dealing with their kids.  99 percent of the kids are doing just fine.

Bottom line is the 99 percent doing OK don't make news.  It's way to easy to make it doom and gloom.  And with the never ending saturation of communication it's easier to make things overly dramatic.

Bottom line is I think most kids are doing just fine and I look forward to raising my youngest now and seeing how he conquers the world.

i can introduce you to 3 bad kids if you'd like to come to nj sir.

 their a friends kids. his oldest came out good. the other three......i've tried, along with a half dozen other friends.....nothing has worked. now, one is with child, living in camden, job hopping......the next younger is a job hopper, and has been caught several times stealing from his work.....the youngest he thinks is ok, but i've seen the kid treat older people like crap, he drives his car(given to him) like he thinks he's in the fast and furious, and just got a ticket the other day.

[Dichotomy]

makes me want to slam my head into my desk

If you need any help with that let me know.  Because I'm a helpful kind of guy and all 

[CAP1]

When i was a kid we used to have to walk 15 miles to school uphill in the snow, both ways! Everybody had a job and they worked for free, in fact at the end of the day we came out in debt, and we were glad. We used to play football in the streets and run through glass bare footed because we couldn't afford shoes even though we worked from 5am to 8pm while going to school and maintaining our grades. You wanna talk about fighting, forget about it half the time somebody got killed if not then they both ended up dead! All these ipods and tv's you kids have nowadays to entertain yourselves  and you still say you're bored. We used to have to entertain ourselves with dirt if we had if enough money to buy it. If I told my parents I was bored they would beat me until CPS came and then they would beat me too for giving my parents a hard time. You kids don't know how good you have it.  

my brother and i only actually had to walk 2 miles. if it rained, my grandpop drove us. most of the time he did if it snowed too. it wasn't really that bad.

 when i got to senior high, we had to take the bus. we had to walk a half mile to the bus stop. again, if it was raining, grandpop drove us there, and we waited in the car.
 nowadays, kids get the bus right in front of their house. i get caught sometimes behind a bus in stratford that picks up one kid, then about 1/4 mile up the road picks another up. kinda ridiculous if ya ask me.....

 

[CAP1]

Well obviously I'm a kid. I to slightly agree with this and even blame my self. I even feel now a days kids are so lazy, It's almost like you gotta be fat to be cool.( no offense) Honestly it's hard to see a normal kid in my school. Now a days no kids can even take a joke, they freak out and get violent enough for an OSS (Out of School Suspension). Also I have an A in Language Arts which just shows the education they teach today pretty quick, I'm in 7th grade though so it will improve. Lastly their physical strength is gone, their attitude to be nice. They can't even do hard enough punches if a fight happens. I think it's to much television unless it's the Disney Channel or Discovery. It is though afterall 7th grade for me, the 13 year old girls keep tabs on how much they hate each other in their note books.

I see you guys do care about this genoration and the next. I can't say anymore though because I'm probably to young to even understand what caring really is. Just help the this genoration and the next, with an act of random kindness.

do schools still have gym class? do they still make you do calisthenics?

[Motherland]

do schools still have gym class? do they still make you do calisthenics?

Yes & yes, in Pennsylvania, at least, it's a requirement to have gym through your senior year in high school (which is idiotic IMO...)

When i was a kid we used to have to walk 15 miles to school uphill in the snow, both ways! Everybody had a job and they worked for free, in fact at the end of the day we came out in debt, and we were glad. We used to play football in the streets and run through glass bare footed because we couldn't afford shoes even though we worked from 5am to 8pm while going to school and maintaining our grades. You wanna talk about fighting, forget about it half the time somebody got killed if not then they both ended up dead! All these ipods and tv's you kids have nowadays to entertain yourselves  and you still say you're bored. We used to have to entertain ourselves with dirt if we had if enough money to buy it. If I told my parents I was bored they would beat me until CPS came and then they would beat me too for giving my parents a hard time. You kids don't know how good you have it.  

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe1a1wHxTyo
'And you try and tell the young people of today that, and they won't believe you!'

[Tupac]

I live out in the boondocks, and I had to walk a mile to get to the bus stop at the end of my street.

[CAP1]

Yes & yes, in Pennsylvania, at least, it's a requirement to have gym through your senior year in high school (which is idiotic IMO...)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe1a1wHxTyo
'And you try and tell the young people of today that, and they won't believe you!'

it's not really that idiotic.

i'm 48. look at our generation. you don't see too many seriously overweight people.

 they worked our tulips off in gym class. plus we spent most of our time outside running around.

 now a days, it seems that kids don't do much outside, and don't seem to get much exercise in school either.

[Motherland]

I see plenty of disgustingly overweight people in that age group.
Putting kids in gym class for 40 minutes every other day doesn't make them fit, living fit makes them fit. Eating healthy, getting exercise daily.
Also, I don't see how you could make the case that people would be skinny 30 years later because they had gym in high school.
The obesity problem in this country is not a generational thing, it's a conditional thing- things are too easy and food is disgusting. There's no need to go outside because for the most part you can get entertainment inside. People of all ages are disturbingly fat.

[Tupac]

My little brother is really fat, but he sits on his arse all day.

I am in decent shape, but I go outside, run around, ride horses and fly airplanes.

It's all about activity level