Generational Laziness

Hi! I think you are right. They are more lax then the past generations. There are a lot of factors that can influence them to be like this. One of the major factors is upbringing if their parents are not pushing them to be responsible or are training them to be one then they would be lazy or if their friends are like this too than its okay for them since they have companions. This is very alarming I guess.

I don't know what Dr Phil says, but I can tell what I see. Today's kids are just being human, taking advantage where they can. Parents don't seem to know how to parent any more. Kids are given everything they want from small children right on up to past adulthood. Why should Maria's 24 year old daughter cook, clean and so laundry for herself when her mother will do it for her? Why shouldn't Johnnie demand money if his mom will give it to him? As to the education inheritance, why wasn't it fixed so it had to pay for his education? Handing over a sum of money like that to a young person (or most older persons) is irresponsible. Most people wouldn't know how to handle it and would blow it. I'm not blaming everything on the parents, but a good portion of it, yes. Kids have parents because they need to be taught what is acceptable behavior and what is not. If parents can't do that, what are kids supposed to do? We're not born wise and capable. That is learned - from whom? Maria could tell her daughter to do her own laundry and clean the house every other time. She could give her specific days to cook dinner. Why not? She's her daughter! Why go from one extreme to another, and then neither of you have learned a thing.

I don't have any kids, but ever since moving buying a house with my girlfriend and looking at her kids, I've noticed this. Later, I found it wasn't just her kids, but this generation in general. They don't want to work, they want to stay at home so they can havfe more money to play. And of course, not a whole lot of them have savings accounts that they make deposits every week. It reminds me of the story, and I don't know it exactly but two teens were at a baseball game and one of them remarked about how their grandparents didn't have the internet. An old man sitting in the row behind them smacked the teen on the head and said "that's right, we didn't. so we invented it - for you. Now what are you going to do for the next generation?

It's not only the kids in college that I think are getting lazy. I've always thought that more and more kids these days have a sense of entitlement. Like if people around them owe them a few things. Of course there would be exceptions, but a lot are just growing up like the examples you cited. It's a bit sad.

Time for me to go on a rant about society in general. The thing is that every latest generation gets complaints that they are more entitled and selfish than the previous generation. Your parents complained about your generation. Your grandparents generation complained about your parents generation. Your great grandparents generation complained about your grandparents generation. People tend to look at things from their generation through rose tinted glasses. And I about bet you, that this generation is going to complain about every single thing that is wrong about the generation and how they are selfish compared to them. It is only inevitable. And the media obviously helps this belief. Granted, I'm not saying that it's false, because it isn't. I'm just saying that every generation sucks more than the one before it. And I think the economy plays no small part in it either. There are a number of factors, including the laziness and the entitlement yes. But don't think that people were not complaining about your generation. The complaints may have been different, but the same similar message was the same. Things were so much better than my day. And perhaps they were. And for those who are rolling their eyes at the past generation complaining about this one, just wait, you'll be doing the same thing. It is a cycle that will never end.

Actually I am a girl in twenties and a college student. Before reading this, I've never taken laziness as one of my characteristics as well as that laziness has become a part of young generations' common, pathological phenomena. Generations as I live in an era of peace and high-level of civilization. What we call disasters maybe just means minor difficults to past generations. We think we need not do a very good job for we have a strong backing to rely on.In my shallow point of view, this will surely appear as the world moves on for comfort makes men loosen and weaker.

I think these are new times for sure. There are a lot of children that think they are entitled when they are grown and I really just don't get it. I think it is perfectly reasonable to give a 24 year old woman a time limit and even certain requirements if she were to stay. I also think that young man needs some education in manners and respect. He needs some tough love alright..lol.