The older I get, the more I notice older people are less and less willing to complain about young people. Nobody wants to be seen as the grumpy old person. This is causing us to be way too understanding of teenage shenanigans. Society has always worked by teenagers rebelling and pushing boundaries, and older people pushing back when they go too far. Push back too much, and kids become scared to do anything new, or start rebelling even harder. Don’t push back enough, and teenagers never learn about boundaries and rules at all, and aren’t able to function in society as adults.
The amount of videos where teenagers are doing something annoying (like blocking traffic, vandalizing, etc), and all the comments are just people saying “they’re just kids, I was like that when I was young, mind your business” is infuriating. You’re an adult, you’re supposed to be annoyed by that. Yes we were like that when we were young, but the reason it worked out was because we did those things in spite of the adults in our lives telling us not to. When adults encourage that behavior, teenagers just push even further looking for boundaries to cross. They never learn how to deal with the word no, they never learn how to navigate a world with rules and cultural norms.
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Saw a person on here yesterday complaining about teenagers playing with nerf guns in her apartment building.
Not vandalizing stuff. No gang shit. playing with toys
Good God almighty
I honestly think the difference is is that back when I was a teen in the 80’s we did do things but most of us had a dad who we knew would woop our ass when he found out.
Nowadays you can’t woop an ass, you can’t do anything to them because they’re not parented from the beginning and even then their moms will want to fight and argue with you that their child is innocent so we just shake our heads and move on. Not worth it.
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How about grumpy young people?
40YO. I don’t complain about young people because they are lame AF. I feel bad for them. They dress like hobos, they have zero resilience, and their culture is some mix between cat lady anti-social and corporate coded milquetoast weirdo-ism. Its like they outsourced their personalities to HR and TikTok.
Even the cow has been a calf, It’s wrong to sit back and complain when everyone did the same back in the days.
Older people today!
I think a lot of our aging population (myself included) feels like it went so fast, we couldn’t possibly be the old people now so in our heads we think we can still relate to young-people stuff.
If you don’t bitch about the generation for you, you are foregoing a tradition that dates back to ancient times. Stand up and do your part.
I have a well behaved and talented teen. Of course she annoys me at times but she is way better behaved than I was. I certainly am not going to whine about vidyas.
Imagine being bothered that people aren’t complaining about others. Be the change you want to see.
Then again you made this post.
People not knowing the difference between number and amount is throwing off the grammatical balance.
Number of videos**
Also, this might be the corniest post I’ve ever seen in here
Covid broke the social contract. No one listens to anyone anymore. If half the population is/was unwilling to don a mask to potentially save lives, there is zero hope that an opinion will change behaviour.
Holy shit. The older generation is fucking the kids and then we blame the kids.
They don’t want to work anymore : Of COURSE, they understand its a fucking rigged game.
They have weird language. So did you when you were kids but you didn’t have a fucking application to transmit it everywhere.
They are doing annoying shit : YES, because they saw others do it and get MONEY for it. If you recompense shitty behavior, then you will have repeats.
Some are more racist too, and that’s on the parents.
I’ve met a few shining stars out of this gen but it’s absolutely rare. They feign ignorance which leads them to developing a poor work ethic. They’re resourceful but put in baseline effort, if any at all which makes even the marginal look amazing by contrast. They also have developed a myopic world view because they curate anything they don’t like or don’t want to see out of their newsfeed, and life. They’re avoidant and have zero conflict resolution skills.
I remember being a teenager and complaining about those idiots too.
Its really a small minorities of the dumbest and most disruptive teens disrupting traffic and society.
The stuff I worry about with teens now is too much time spent at home and a lack of developing themselves through positive experiences.
Eh. Kids are going to learn from doing stupid shit. I dont have to yell at them to get them to learn. (I’m old. Lol)
The whole grumpy old person doesn’t change anything.
You’re cringe
GET THE HELL OFF MY LAWN!!!!