I want them to have it better and easier. But an easier life, not just an easy childhood that doesn’t prepare them for their inevitable crushing adulthood.
As a Gen-X, if I was a kid these days I’d be pissed too. It seems as much grief as they’re given by adults, they understand early on they’ve been given the worst hand.
Our gen made such a big deal about being cynical, yet life ended up being SO MUCH WORSE than even we imagined. Although it does show we were right to be cynical.
Ya, m gut tells me teenagers are much more aware of just how bad it is because of their generation’s social media. I was pretty unaware at that age. I think there was a bit of a shift in societal values and the youth reflect it more as well.
It has also steadily been getting worse and we keep telling them they are the ones who are going to get seriously shafted compared to the rest of us. That probably doesn’t help.
Honestly, I think we underestimate how much of an impact telling them that is. Realism isn’t bad, but kids’ only real point of reference is their past experience and what adults tell them. So if we set them up to think it’ll be terrible compared to us, while we complain that everything is bad, they’re gonna assume that’s truly awful to have to be told about it.
I wasn’t really aware of it as a kid either, but I don’t think I ever really heard about climate change stuff until Inconvenient Truth came out. It just wasn:t something that was talked about, because we weren’t really feeling the effects.
I’m amazed (in a bad way) at how far we’ve fallen in 25 years, and I fear for the life my child will have as an adult.
The ones that survive will have it good. It’s like in the movie 300 when they send their kids into the forest. The mines is how you separate the wheat from the chaff
University years aren’t really “childhood”, but if their childhood at the grade school level was better that would both make it happier and prepare them better for adulthood. And college.
my nephews have a better life than me. but their lives are way harder and stressful than mine was. they have zero free time apart from holidays. they do nothing creative or exploratory, every minute of everyday is scheduled.
their college educations are paid for. mine wasn’t. but they will work way harder to achieve less. but they eat way better food/healthcare, have better clothes, have better homes, etc than I ever did.
of course they are growing up this way and thus they don’t and never will appreciate how good they have it. they already are razor focused on the fact that someone else has it better than them and how unfair it is they aren’t traveling to europe for family vacations like their friends are.
Was it also sponsored by the “I want my kids to have a better life than me” crew who then complains about kids having it too easy these days?
I want them to have it better and easier. But an easier life, not just an easy childhood that doesn’t prepare them for their inevitable crushing adulthood.
I want the opposite tbh, kids just don’t appreciate it. Send them to the mines first, and then give them an easy adulthood.
As a Gen-X, if I was a kid these days I’d be pissed too. It seems as much grief as they’re given by adults, they understand early on they’ve been given the worst hand.
Our gen made such a big deal about being cynical, yet life ended up being SO MUCH WORSE than even we imagined. Although it does show we were right to be cynical.
Ya, m gut tells me teenagers are much more aware of just how bad it is because of their generation’s social media. I was pretty unaware at that age. I think there was a bit of a shift in societal values and the youth reflect it more as well.
It has also steadily been getting worse and we keep telling them they are the ones who are going to get seriously shafted compared to the rest of us. That probably doesn’t help.
Honestly, I think we underestimate how much of an impact telling them that is. Realism isn’t bad, but kids’ only real point of reference is their past experience and what adults tell them. So if we set them up to think it’ll be terrible compared to us, while we complain that everything is bad, they’re gonna assume that’s truly awful to have to be told about it.
Note: not to say things are going great.
I wasn’t really aware of it as a kid either, but I don’t think I ever really heard about climate change stuff until Inconvenient Truth came out. It just wasn:t something that was talked about, because we weren’t really feeling the effects.
I’m amazed (in a bad way) at how far we’ve fallen in 25 years, and I fear for the life my child will have as an adult.
And what a righteous 15 years of uneducated adulthood it’ll be before they die of black lung.
yeah but think of all the pituitary glands we could harvest
The ones that survive will have it good. It’s like in the movie 300 when they send their kids into the forest. The mines is how you separate the wheat from the chaff
Chaff is responsible for all the faults in society. We need a wheats only country.
University years aren’t really “childhood”, but if their childhood at the grade school level was better that would both make it happier and prepare them better for adulthood. And college.
What a better way to achieve this, than putting education behind a paywall!
better and easy are not the same thing
You man as in expensive and more difficult aren’t the same thing?
my nephews have a better life than me. but their lives are way harder and stressful than mine was. they have zero free time apart from holidays. they do nothing creative or exploratory, every minute of everyday is scheduled.
their college educations are paid for. mine wasn’t. but they will work way harder to achieve less. but they eat way better food/healthcare, have better clothes, have better homes, etc than I ever did.
of course they are growing up this way and thus they don’t and never will appreciate how good they have it. they already are razor focused on the fact that someone else has it better than them and how unfair it is they aren’t traveling to europe for family vacations like their friends are.