To hate the ‘youth of today’ attitudes?

You don’t know ‘my’ generation? It’s the teaching. Not enough emphasis is placed on spelling things correctly. I had my dds English book back, marked, but no correction of spelling mistakes. When I checked with the teacher, she said spelling words was not a priority. It was all about what was written, rather than any spelling errors. Which is madness and one of the reasons we have school leavers coming to work without basic English capabilities.

Every generation has said that though.

I do think our current batch of school leaver new recruits are useless compared to those we were hiring 15-20 years ago though, and that's if they bother turning up for the interview. Constant skiving to browse their phones, calling in sick all the time and needing spoon fed everything like baby birds.

Totally agree OP and it’s depressing seeing people of our age saying the same old rubbish. There’s an inbuilt smugness to these posts as the unspoken message is that WE are obviously brilliant so all that playing out, wearing gloves on a string, polishing our shoes, penny sweets or whatever bollocks it may be is what made us the wonderful wonderful people we are today. Young people today are (supposedly) doing different things and therefore those things are worse and will make them into terrible people unlike us. Btw we are marvellous.

I think we are all hardwired to think they way things were when we were children is normal and good and other ways are odd and not as good, but most of us grow out of that.

A teacher of mine was saying the exact same thing when I was at school about people born in the 60s and 70s.

Yes. I especially hate the ones about this generations parenting and how awful our children are.

This is such a sweeping generalisation.

So many of my boomer parents’ generation are either very good at grammar and spelling or awful at it. That’s not a new thing!

The worst spelling I see on facebook and other sites is by far the 40s+ people who were kids in the 70s and 80s.
Before and after that time seems different

The stupid thing is that the examples they gave in the post about 1940w to 1979 or whatever it was, I was also doing, playing out, recording songs from the radio onto a cassette etc etc. I was born in 1992.

It's all nostalgia, but older generations forget times change, some things they did just aren't possible now. And some if them aren't possible down to their doing. The world we live in now is mainly down to the generations before creating the world we've in now. As will the generations growing up now will change the way things are for future generations.

Completely agree @Whatnowthenfordone

Better they refer to remember when we.... instead of sounding like they where the best generation around when everyone thinks their generation is the best.

Quote Ecclesiastes 7:10 at them.
Or the Four Yorkshiremen sketch.

I would say though that education has definitely been lacking. A lot of young people struggle with basic spelling and grammar. A lot who hold decent exam results. And appear on the surface to be intelligent but just can't spell. Also have a bit of a slack approach in a working environment after leaving school. Thats just an observation....

I always find it quite ironic when older people are using social media to criticise youngsters for spending too much time on social media I must say!
But criticising younger generations is as old as the hills. My DCs in their early 20s are already moaning about kids!
Personally, I don't think "the youth of today" are intrinsically different to my generation or the ones before. They have different opportunities and different challenges for sure, but they're still just people. I volunteer with a couple of children's sports clubs, so deal with quite a range of kids from preschoolers to teenagers and I don't see them as the cause of society's imminent downfall. Obviously there are some I like better than others, some who behave better than others and so on, but any adult working with me and my peers in the 70s would have said the same, just as I suspect my Dad's Scout leaders in the 1930s would. The younger generation has been about to bring civilisation as we know it to an end for as long as anyone can remember, and yet we're still here. In terms of the future of the world, I'm a lot more worried about what old men are up to at the moment.

My 13 Yr old DD is way more emotionally mature than I was at her age, not afraid to set boundaries, stick up for her beliefs and challenge her friends. She is a strident feminist and is highly driven whilst having a massive gift for empathy and compassion.
As a Gen X'er I am in awe of her daily. She has her shit together already. I still haven't got my shit together at 46!

I can't stand the generalisations applied to teenagers today but am sure it has always been so.

It's toxic nostalgia. I was born in 1968, my kids are now early 20s and honestly, their generation are much more politically aware, socially conscious and in every way creative than mine ever was. I think they're great.

I feel the same way about 'the good old days' - they weren't. Rape in marriage was fine, hitting your kids was acceptable, women couldn't get mortgages or bank accounts. It was shit in so many ways.

My experience with younger people has been unexpectedly good recently. When out for walks or even driving I've passed "youths" who have always said thank you if I've stopped or moved out the way. I'm glad there are still manners being taught.

I work in a public facing role and I'd say the worst age group in my own experience for rudeness and entitlement is the current early twenty to mid thirty year olds. People over 70 seem to be either lovely or awful. There doesn't seem to be an in between.

The rest of the age groups are more varied but on the whole are okay. Teens to early twenties seem to have been taught manners again imo.

Disclaimer: I'm 43 myself with an 8 and 11 year old and a 29 year old half brother. The above is only from my experience.

The ones that annoy me most are the "back in my day I didn't have xyz" or "I had to work hard for xyz and now kids just get it handed to them".... If that's so true, then why is that a bad thing? Surely we want life for our children to be easier? It feels like if the older generations had it their way, we'd still be freezing cold huddled around a fireplace listening to the wireless every night!

My kids and their mates are far more emotionally intelligent and switched on than I was at their age. I always think if young people present as badly behaved or rude it’s most likely that they’ve had shit in their lives, because all of the ones I know from stable backgrounds are awesome.

If anything, they are a bit too sensible and full of anxieties. I just want to tell them to go out, dance, flirt, get drunk, break the rules and make the most of their youth!

I think most of this style of post are about nostalgia!

But yes, every generation seems to think the next is lazy and spoilt.

I think a lot of it is driven by lack of genuine exposure to them and their lives. It’s amazing how quickly you become out of touch with issues.

I’m always so impressed by the total cognitive dissonance around housing affordability, assuming it because younger people are lazy and spending too much, and entirely ignoring inflation in house prices.

Hearing the older generation moan about the youth that they raised is annoying unless it's done in the vein of "except my perfect child who I raised different" which probably sounds cocky but at least makes sense.

I wish I was lying but I know people who bought their children (literal toddlers) iPads only to moan "all these kids these days want to do is play on the iPad" uhm no shit Sherlock it's fun and why did YOU buy it for them. If you time traveled iPads to the middle ages then kids would be obsessed too
Its the same with older children and phones/games consoles.

I'm 61 and most of my colleagues are much younger than I am. I think they're great. We treat each other with respect and learn things from each other. I can't abide the 'when we were young' talk and avoid doing so because I don't want them to think I'm some judgmental, ancient human being!
I had an aunt like that who was forever giving it the 'in my day we ..." speech to myself and my cousins (all of us fully grown adults). It's soooo annoying to be on the receiving end. 🙄

I always roll my eyes when i see those posts, they just always seem really childish and completely batshit to me and I grew up in the 80's.

I disagree. I’d see criticism as ‘we
were the last to play out because today’s kids are too lazy to leave their rooms and too silly to be able to play nicely with others’.
There absolutely is a trend of young people socialising in a completely different way from previous generations which has both positive and negative consequences. Pointing this out and looking nostalgically at your own childhood is not the same as criticising a generation.

Todays young one's will soon be complaining about the generation being born now. It is what humans do.

Agree with @Newrumpus ,I cannot see the criticism in those comments l