Why do we have "I can't do Generation"??

I think they may have ended up in court too many times because it made others jealous and revengefull! The go getters and "doers" of the world are targeted and used and abused! They haven't disappeared...just gone underground!!

Techonological advancement has a lot to do with our indolence. The ancient man has used improvised sticks for digging out soil and cultivating plants. Sticks then were the extension of his hands. In the contemporary world, we do not only have extensions for the hand. All of our senses do have their corresponding extensions and some of the equipment do multiple tasks for us. Everything else then is automatic. We have done things by contributing less effort or even none at all. The pitfall, for example, of information gained through the internet is that the books in our libraries are beginning to gather dust. It's terrifying, we let computers think for us. We feed on information without digesting the concepts thoroughly.In a word, we can't lift a finger. Our generation seemed obsessed in having those external things provide for us. We did not only feed on technology, we also rely on our parents. It seems that habit begets habit.

We just grew out of it.

Parents don't make their children get a job after school........Like we had to do and they don't have to do any chores at home.......Like clean their rooms or do the dishes.. so they don't know how to do anything......Happy Holidays

This is what happens when lessons of responsibility and respect aren't passed along. People also rely too much on technology. A lack of respect for doing things, a relience on technology and a lack of responsilbility equals "I can't do it".

Interesting subject cat. I believe that this generation cant do, because our generation got so use to doing everything that we spoiled this generation by making everything easier for them, that and the instant gratification of the internet... anything you want just about, at your fingertips!!! Many baby boomer families with both parents working,some feel compelled to make up for lost time with the kids getting them material things, or not having the expectations from their children and in so many cases children who have grown up in two homes with the divorce rate as it is, with two parents competing for the childrens love affection and attention, the kids get what they need and exactly what they want by playing the game. Some of these kids have two of each of everything! I have seen way to much of this. Its the SRG!!! )spoiled rotten generation!

When I was a teen, I wanted a bike. Babysitting became my main means of earning money. It took me a lot of weekends and evenings to earn enough for a used bicycle. Used! We wore hand-me-down clothes or ones bought from the thrift shop. My mother bought each of us 1 new outfit for school. The second new outfit came at Christmas time. My children were raised with the knowledge that they would get the necessities. They would get a few items that were fun for their birthdays and Christmas. If they wanted other things, they needed to earn it. They had chores, but if they wanted to be paid for something, they would have to do something that wasn't related to their regular chores. Now that 2 of the 4 kids have children, I find them buying them name brand items and telling them that those are the best. I told them that they are setting themselves up for a major problem when the reach their teen years. They laugh. Live and learn.

We grew up in a different time and these days things are in a rush, 24 hour service this and that. Charge it and don't save up for it. No chores to do for self satisfaction just give it to me. my children have been homeschooled and while we study the news and read other things and discuss what we encounter when out and about, they have learned to save and to earn. I have also told both of them, a boy and a girl, to be a doctor or lawyer or marry one! No limits to what they can do!!

This later generation is fond of always pleasant life and rely on other people to do things for them. They are generally lazy and also fond of fantasy. There have been many movies on fantasy and they're happy enough imagining good life and seem not to care about the actual life.

I understand that as children grow up and become parents themselves they want to give their kids things that they might not have had growing up. But to me this results in children having everything they want and not appreciating the value of money. When I was growing up I used to get pretty decent pocket money (compared to what my friends got) but I had to do certain chores to earn my pocket money including helping my brother with his homework (who in hindsight was far brighter than me) - this actually ensured we had a stronger bond as I was always very protective of him and now we're in our 30s we're still extremely close. Looking back now I'm glad my parents didn't treat us differently as girl and boy, i.e me as a girl having to do stuff around the house that my brother wasn't asked to do. We were brought up equally and understood the value of money. I feel quite concerned when I see kids as young as 7 or 8 with a mobile phone and iPods, in my eyes this actually is more dangerous for kids as other kids without them end up being jealous and they often end up being targets of muggings. I mean these days it's not uncommon for 10 years to be held at knifepoint to hand over their phones/iPods. How would you feel if your kid?