My parents told me about how they grew up, how things were, music, prices, parentage, their siblings, schooling and whatnots. My mother would watch a 13-year-old for a couple of hours a day for months. This kids had never seen an LP nor a '45. I've met tenns who have never heard of Rosa Parks, the Sugarhill Gang and apparently working for your own money because they want hand-outs. \n  What's wrong with this generations?\n  My parents were assitant principal and counselor at high school at high schools. However, people should want to learn on thier own. I learned on my own that Count, Duke and Dizzy were born William Basie, Edward Kennedy Ellington and John Birk Gillespie among things. Bengiman Ross & Harriett Green were Harriett Turbman's parents. How can one not have a thrust for knowledge and prosperity?
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There's no future in it
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Yes i am totally in agreement.The teachers now a days expect the parents to teach your child at home,i believe in helping your child,but i refuse to teach my child and pay the taxes that we do.Now a days the children will be left behind with what is being taught,but not being explained to them.My kindergartner's teacher is complaining of his reading,excuse me,i never learned how to read until the second grade.See Jane run,See Dick get Spot,you know?It is totally a money issue not a caring child issue,or things would not be like this in our school systems.Sorry for the bluntness,but this is also a touchy subject for me as well.Take Care!
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I don't think they really know what they're doing. They study 'coz their parents told them to do so. Then they look for job 'coz everyone does that, then they study more becoz they couldn't find any job. Simple. This happens to anyone who doesn't know what they're doing, not just young students.
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Well for one thing would you have gone to your parents at that age? Why are they asking? Because this is a time of their life when so many things get thrown at them and they are confused. \n I have no problem answering them though it upsets me when someone answers the question incorrectly or sarcastically. Everyone needs to go somewhere, would you rather they just talk to their friends who know as little as they do? \n As for children being delinquent well that has been forever, it is nothing new in this generation, or the last.\n What should be done, well help these kids with as much knowledge as you can. You don't need to encourage them but there is nothing wrong with their asking a question. I care a great deal. I have a 13 year old grand daughter and no one is going to tell her something about sex except maybe on here or another similiar forum. I can only imagine my daughters response if she asked her a question like you mentioned, I am open minded but I am not even certain how comfortable I could be trying to answer that question to her face. \n What should be done? Nothing, think about it the more information that they have the better decision they can make hopefully based on facts and not sarcasm or narrow minded thinking..
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um, what jacked up teacher did you have?  while some "old school" history teachers still teach the greatest generation theory of history (wwii and american superiority) most of the new breeds have taken a more "yeah, we made decisions which now seem horrible but at the time were made for these resons" approach.  i'm more of a "people are stupid and make the same stupid mistakes throughout history" type of teacher.  \n\nwe are to view ourselves as an evolving political system that is never accomplished, that learns from its own mistakes and those of other countries.  that means we can never judge our history by the policies of just one president or how we acted in one event, but the overall trend of our development as a people.\n\nand i think you or your teacher have some issues.  but then, people are stupid.....
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I'm a baby boomer and I completely agree with you. What you didn't mention is that we are probably one of the single most self centered and selfish generations around. You can thank the poor educational system, widespread family breakdowns, multigenerational welfare families, and various unwinable wars on us and our refusal to acknowledge reality. Good luck. You'll need it.
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Although our families are a great influence in our upbringing and how we are raised \n\nAs an adult you sometimes have to break the hell away and just do what you want to do and what makes you happy. Sometimes parents arent supportive in our carreer choices and alot of times because they pay for our education we bend our desires their way but I say to follow your dreams and do what you want to do in life no matter whaty your parents dreams are for you. Maybe you will be making a mistake and they will have the opportunity to say I told you so so what it is your mistake to learn from. If they dobt like it so what this is what growing up and becoming an adult is.\n\nI wanted to go to schoo for law enforcement after highschool because I was married and a young mother my family was agaisnt it, and my parents refused to pay for my tution so I went into business management. Here I am 15 years later going back to school for Criminal Justice because thats what I really want to do. So if you want to waste you time doing what other people think is best for you then go ahead but I garuntee your true desire will never go away. Dont waste your time just do what you want even if you regret it later & its hard work,at lease you would have gotten it out of your system
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This reminds me of the time that my grandfather hollered at me....\n"HOW OLD ARE YOU NOW, BOY"\n\n"FIVE" I said.\n\nHe replied..."WHEN I WAS YOUR AGE, I WAS SIX."\n\nWhy does the older generation feel the need to out-do or compete with the younger generation. Exactly. I'm glad I could help.
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I think alot of parents are teaching their kids at home because they want to control what is being taught  to their kids. I am one of those parents. They are teaching kids therorys instead of facts. I teach my kids facts about life.
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I'm not a "kid"  I'm 53 years old and yes I remember when I could pay my own college tution.  Howevr such is not the case any longer.  The problem lies in the fact that not as many scholarships are offered any longer and they are no longer in the mega bucks denominations as they were prior to the late 70s because nowadays a $15,000.00 scholarship doesn't pay jack.  I know because I have a daughter in college right now and if it weren't for financial aid SHE would not be able to afford to go because there is no way I could afford to send her on MY salary alone.  As long as the cost of living keeps going up so will the cost of higher education, instructors have to be paid, as does the costs of running a college, electric bills, water bills, etc.  You're just a wee bit off base blaming financial aid.
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Dear Gilmore:\n\nHere is a list of Generations dated from 1433 to 2024?\n\nI hope you enjoy the information contained in this website.\n\nMy generation is the 13th Generation (Nomad, born 1961-1981) survived a “hurried” childhood of divorce, latchkeys, open classrooms, devil-child movies, and a shift from G to R ratings.  They came of age curtailing the earlier rise in youth crime and fall in test scores—yet heard themselves denounced as so wild and stupid as to put The Nation At Risk.  As young adults, maneuvering through a sexual battlescape of AIDS and blighted courtship rituals—they date and marry cautiously.  In jobs, they embrace risk and prefer free agency over loyal corporatism.  From grunge to hip-hop, their splintery culture reveals a hardened edge.  Politically, they lean toward pragmatism and nonaffiliation, and would rather volunteer than vote.  Widely criticized as “Xers” or “slackers,” they inhabit a Reality Bites economy of declining young-adult living standards.  (AMERICAN: Tom Cruise, Jodie Foster, Michael Dell, Deion Sanders, Winona Ryder, Quentin Tarantino; FOREIGN: Princess Di, Alanis Morissette)
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Because it was harder for them when they were kids. Trust me, their parents said the same thing to them when they were your age. Each generation has it a little bit easier and your parents want you to appreciate things more and not take the little things for granted/
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You are making a statement that is unproven. Remember that whatever the condition of man, you will always hear from the minority that are unhappy, while the majority that are happy are too busy enjoying themselves to make themselves known to you and me. The news media will always "write" their stories about the unusual features of society, not the common. You wouldn't buy a magazine to read "Mr. and Mrs. Smith have sold their multi-store grocery chain and are enjoying their early retirement with 10-15 close neighbors in their third summer home in the Adirondack mountains.", now would you? But you would buy "C. Jones comitted to J. K. nursing and psychiatric hospital for severe depression." So we notice the unusual, not the usual. Many wealthy, powerful, and influential people are very happy and satisfied in their early, well-earned retirement. My parents are.
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the people you are speaking to probably have a problem with 'normal' because they are not and sadly like the rest of parents since the late 80's they believe that positive reinforcement is the way to go so they tell little Johnny he is better than normal which leads to such problems as no-talent idiots thinking they can sing and thus auditioning for pop/american/australian idol and not understanding why they are being told they suck because there have never been enogh 'normal' people to tell them the truth before. that's just one example anyway!
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Guess I am a baby boomer, too.  Yes . . . my grandparents told me about the hardships they endured during the great depression.  My parents were lucky . . . they lived with my grandparents and had no hardships . . . because they mooched off my grandparents.  I remember some pretty tough times in my life . . . even though it was after the great depression  I remember having only two dresses, and my grandmother (with whom I lived) washed one every night so that I would have a clean one to wear to school the next day.  I also remember eating lots and lots of dough products because flour was cheap.  I remember the outhouse . . . I remember living in a house with no electricity . . . I remember going to a one-room school house.  All of the things that I remember and have been told I probably have used to make my life better.  But, there are also strange quirks I have developed.  I hoard things because I am afraid if I give them up I'll never have them again.  I eat way too much food because I remember when I was hungry.  I refuse to wear denim jeans because I associate them with poverty as that is all my grandparents and parents wore when we were on the farm and barely making a living.  So, psychologically, I guess it had more of an effect on me that I ever thought . . . until you asked this question.
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I am black and grew up with a lot of white friends, and let's just say that the parenting techniques are different. I grew up with "that look" (lol!), and I did indeed see my white friends walk all over their parents. It was as if their parents were afraid that the kids would hate them if they were disciplined.
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Okay, so they're college professors who are teaching the future leaders. I don't think that you can really find any generation without things to complain about. It may shock you to know that not all of us gen x or y or whatever category I fall into are what you see on MTV, fully obsessed with the bling-bling "real world" jessica&nick fantasy life of hollywood. We're not all grungy potheads with no ambition in life either. Some of us made it out of the mess and have a concern for the well being of the rest of the world and CAN see outside of our own front yard to how our actions affect the rest of the world. What scares me about the future is the corporations who don't give a damn about anything but profit and exist to worship and glorify the almighty dollar at the expense of variety of life itself. And the sad part goes back to your original statement. People in my generation don't give a damn. About much of anything. So the corporations take over and tell us what to wear, listen to, watch, eat, drink and do or risk being yesterday's news and people buy into that crap. That is what scares me. Apathy.