I think it was the ancient Greeks who were first recorded as complaining about the undisciplined behavior of their youth.
“The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they allow disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children now are 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.”
— Socrates, according to Plato
Once you leave you ain't coming back to live here. He also told her that IF she ever admitted to voting for a democrat to move out.
He is serious, I brought him up right.
Actually,it goes back even farther, to Ancient Babylonia. I have a book which has translations of cuneiform tablets on many different topics.....from personal letters to business stuff,to laws. Still and all, those “youths” were not in their 20s-30s, which many Millennials of today are.
I know group of Millennials ( at the outer reaches of that cadre, of which 99.8% of whom are hard workers,expect NOTHING to just be handed to them, work very hard, are stable, adults, who were brought up right.
I blame parents form NOT doing their jobs, for those who aren’t like that.
“I think it was the ancient Greeks who were first recorded as complaining about the undisciplined behavior of their youth.”
True, but there are also no more ancient Greeks