Generation Z (born 1995-2009)

[GreatGooglyMoogly]

Interesting article about how we are raising the children of today (though admittedly it is Australian!).

Doesn't every generation despair of the 'children of today'?

There are a lot of valid points in the article but what is the solution?

I don't know :(. Buy them fewer things; less screentime; spend more time talking to them?

"Doesn't every generation despair of the 'children of today'?"

I read an article in a Magazine once about the despair the author felt for the next generation. They said that the generation before the authors had been the last generation to actually be worthy and great and that direction had now been lost. The next generation lacked willpower, were badly behaved and didn't respect the law or people in positions of authority. The country, it was claimed, was now heading downhill into oblivion.

So it all sounded terribly familiar to the sorts of articles you read.

At the end of the article was a foot note pointing out that the article was written for the Daily Mail in the 1920s.

Some things never change, every generation thinks the one that follows them is somehow "broken".

Since when was a 15 year time-span a 'generation' anyway?

"The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place
of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers."

Attributed to Socrates by Plato!

Nothing new in ranting about the youth of today