Posted on 05/21/2007 7:35:35 PM PDT by JTN
No, they expect the world to cater more to them, because they are so special. When you've been raised to believe that self-esteem is more important than achievement, why shouldn't you expect to get into Harvard? After all, you're special.
Have we raised a generation of narcissists?
I’m sure the plastic surgeons hope so.
Gee I was among the cutting edge of the Baby Boom (Class of '64) and have a 17 year old daughter, so what does that mean? She's doing fine btw and does not think she's entitled to get into Harvard just for breathing.
“We”,didn’t, libs did.
Has anyone ever watched “Jaywalking” These kids are ignorant
you think they don’t pick the idoit out of the people they interview. Scripts and editing exsist for a reason.
We're 1956-era Boomers. Our youngest is 11. I suppose I could be his grandmother, but I'm not.
Don’t tell that to WWII era dad Larry King, father to an 8 year old, and a 50 year old!
Generation Y will never be as bad as the digusting Baby Boomers who seriously ruined the nation!
Gen Xers(my generation) are the parents of the 20 somethings.
Barely. The oldest Gen X’er is 42! I mean I suppose there are a few parents that have kids in their 20’s but I would say a low number. My kids are 9, 8, 5 and I am a 38 Generation X’er!
More is expected of them....? More of what? We all have challenges.....remember the “Greatest Generation?” This article is just a bunch of generalizations....every generation has its issues....but, this generation SOUNDS like getting into college is its worst challenge, where those who lived through the great depression and World War II...well, uh, they HAD REAL CHALLENGES. Not PRETEND ones. We all rise to our challenges....the sad thing is...some of this generation are/have not really been challenged. JMHO
Horse CRAP!!! Try dealing with these worthless pieces of shit like I have done on a daily basis for too many years to count. Worthless White Kidz who live in 500,000 dollar houses who LITERALLY can not screw in a lightbulb, think they are gangsters from da hood, and are permanently ruined by ghetto culture and incompetent parenting.
The funny thing is, I also employ Volunteers of America cases who are the REAL DEAL, from places like Camden NJ, who have been arrested selling drugs and shooting people, and they are, deep down, better people than these waste of spaces.
We have an entire generation with no real world skills, no ambition, no work ethic, no intelligence, no strength, morality, or any of the other attributes that made America great.
THIS is the other, darker, unmentionable side of the illegal immigration coin. We can not solve this problem if those who are SUPPOSED to be doing the jobs illegals shouldn't do are unable and unwilling to do so.
“So the the entitled little bratties that I teach are most definitely the children of Baby Boomers.”
Correction. Leftist, feminist baby boomers.
I'm actually a "Gen-Y'er", and I'm as pessimistic as the rest of you that I'm going into the rest of my adulthood with conservatives and the GOP as a minority for a very long time.
A lot of my contemporaries hate GW and Republicans, but the best answers they give me when I ask them why includes things like "he's gonna draft us into an illegal war for oil" and "we'll all be forced to go to church and read Bibles in public, man!"
The last few election cycles, the "youth vote" hasn't shown up, but eventually they will. The sad thing is I am seriously believing that my generation has been totally brainwashed.
(That and I probably need new friends. :) ).
“What’s wrong with the kids? A recent article in The Wall Street Journal reported that because they have been told since infancy that they were special, they believe it and expect to keep hearing it. “Bosses, professors and mates are feeling the need to lavish praise on young adults, particularly twentysomethings, or else see them wither under an unfamiliar compliment deficit,” it said.”
It’s called “Working Mom Guilt.” It is destroying our country.
LOL! Good one!
Selfish parents raised selfish children. Sometimes you’ll hear a story of a teenager who dies in an auto accident because they were driving recklessly and you’ll hear people ask where did they learn to drive like that. Chances are they learned to drive like that by watching their parents drive like that. People are extreme narrcissist anymore.
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Here in South Carolina, people drive much more responsibly than they did in the fifties and sixties. I went to a very small high school (approximately sixty in the class) more than one of my classmates didn’t make it to senior year because of car crashes. Racing on public streets and roads was quite common and people bragged about how fast they had traveled around well-known death trap curves. I know some spoiled and whiny young people now but they seem to value their lives too much to race on the highway.
I was thinking that, too. I'm among the oldest Gen-X (41 this year), and started having children fairly young (24), and my oldest is 16.
FWIW, she currently intends to join the military when she finishes high school and become a mechanic. Look out, world :-).
Yes.
Next question and should I read the article.
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