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The ONLT IMO that will change this younger generation are having to go through hardships and suffering the consequences of their own actions. They need to face the music and learn the differences between needs and wants and reality and deception.

During WW II, many British seamen drowned when their ships were torpedoed. The Brits conducted a study and learned that most of the men who drowned were young men with little experience during hard times. Most of the survivors were older men who had been working stressful jobs onboard ships for several years.

A program named "Outward Bound" was devised to expose the young men to training designed to teach them to cope with stress, difficult obstacles, and working together as a team to overcome them and achieve set goals

This British conceived program expanded the U.S. and other countries because it was so successful.

During the late 80s and early 90s the company I worked for decided to send ALL of it's salaried employees to the course. Some were sent to river rafting and some were sent to high desert hiking at The Joshua Tree National Monument near Palm Springs California.

I was one of the employees "blessed" by sent to Joshua Tree.

While we were there we did a lot of hiking (miles and miles of hiking), climbing up large rock formations followed by repalling down the side of the rocks we just climbed up, preparing our own meals, building our own shelters using only string and Tarpaulin, and working together to accomplished several tasks assigned to us.

We happened to be in the high desert during a 100 year rain storm and we all got soaked daily. Our time there was extremely cold, wet, windy, and stressful and the instructors joked that they didn't have to devise any stressful tasks or events because the environment itself was so stressful.

At the conclusion of our training each of the trainees were given a pin from the Pacific Crest branch of outward bound and instructed to give it to someone else in the group who we thought displayed the best attitude and performed their duties the way the two instructors thought we should. I received the pin from the head instructor/group leader.

The ONLT IMO that will change this younger generation are having to go through hardships and suffering the consequences of their own actions. They need to face the music and learn the differences between needs and wants and reality and deception.
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If there was only some way that could be made to happen. Any ideas on that?