(08-30-2017, 12:12 PM)Frailbones Wrote:

(08-30-2017, 11:20 AM)wrong_box Wrote: I'm not so sure that the entire problem with today's society is purely political...Technology and poor parenting have a huge roll in the kids behavior today...The kids today are so wrapped up in social media that they have very few REAL friends and hundreds of friends they have never met on social media who they interact with rather than face to face interaction...Watch a teenager for a day and see what they do...They are so dependent on their phones they won't even go to the bathroom without their phone, yet when the rare event where several teenagers are together they don't really even talk, they all just sit there staring at their phones showing each other what so and so said...They have ZERO social skills...To top that off, the teenagers believe most of everything they read on the internet...

Another major problem with the young people today is they were brought up with the tv as a baby sitter...Between video games, bazillions of cable channels, movies there isn't or wasn't very much any parental or social interaction, the majority of which was online...Iv'e heard some parents say they really don't care what their kids are doing as long as they aren't bothering them...

Today's society has no patience...They were born into the world of instant gratification which in it's self might not be such a bad thing...You want a meal throw something in the microwave for a few minutes and there you go...You want to hear a certain song. you don't need to wait for it to come on the radio, just watch/listen to it online...Those things are great, but when it comes to relationships, they rely on the internet or social media to find "LOVE"...I have to laugh like hell when I see the same people on FB change their status to "In a relationship" after talking to someone for a couple days and they are so much "IN LOVE" and a week later they are openly fighting  on FB, changing their status back to single only to change it back to In a relationship within a week...

The entire school system is [BLEEP] and nothing but [BLEEP]...They teach you how to take a test, but not how to retain knowledge...My stepson is now 21 but when he graduated from high school and had to mail things for college applications, he had no idea how to address an envelope, no idea how to look something up in the phone book, no idea how to fill out a job application, but by God he can tell you how to do anything on a smart phone and knows all the cheat codes for every popular video games...

Boy. You sure do like generalizing don't you?

You're so out of touch with young people it's insane. It's not the teachers fault that he doesn't know how to mail something, it's probably yours. Kids do learn how to mail things in fact having a pen pal still exists to this day. But you wouldn't know that because you have zero interest in what the younger generation is doing these days. Let's just blame it all on technology and the teachers but not hold parents (including yourself) accountable. 

Try teaching your kid how to mail something, write an application or use a phone book. Ultimately, they're YOUR child.

you have no idea what and how I parent my kids..My kids have many useful skills that most kids their age don't have that aren't taught in schools due to our teachings...I'm not out of touch with kids, I am simply appalled by how far the school system has degraded...They pick and choose what to teach, omit lots of history and anything that might cause controversy, the standard for education has dramatically decreased... No shop classes, no Home Economics classes, PE is almost non existent, no life skill classes, no creative writing classes, and cursive writing is not even taught in Pa. Try knowing something about a person before you judge them

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