How is it that I am in my early, VERY EARLY, 30's and I am asking myself "what's wrong with kids nowadays?" As a child who grew up in the 90's with a mom and dad who made it their business to be involved, this is a topic that is always confusing me. I look at the majority of people younger than myself and feel like I should be sitting on the front porch yelling at them to stay off my lawn, and turn their music down.... It's such a huge gap of disconnect that I experience. It's not even with people in their teens, it's people that are just five years younger than myself that I feel this disconnect.
So I find myself digging deep; really trying to reflect and see if I can pinpoint what's causing this wide gap where I rarely see myself connecting with them on important issues.
This election cycle isn't helping either. Hearing what is important to them is like trying to ignore a needle in my eye, it hurts AND makes no sense.
Free college sounds great, but how do they not know, nor understand, that your taxes are going to be going towards that state sponsored education? You may not pay for it directly at the campus bookstore or registration office, but your tax rate will reflect it. There is no fun in having debt, however, your credit is built upon it and you are able to get back some of the interest paid on the loan each year when you file your taxes.
Is the environment an issue, sure it is! I want my little boy to be able to experience nature at its purest form, but look at these people leading you in the "green" movement. How "green" are their actions? You praise people like Al Gore and Obama, but really look at their lifestyle and tell me how they are leading in this movement. Talk and more government bureaucracy don't count either. Actions speak louder than words, so seek out their actions.
Marijuana. This topic drives me CRAZY. As someone who lives a fairly stressful lifestyle, I can honestly tell you I do not NEED drugs nor alcohol to relax. It is not even a blip on my radar of things I would consider doing to relax, so hearing people younger, AND sometimes older, than me seeking this stuff out is perplexing. I witness every single day how these things ruin people, so that is a HUGE motivating factor in me not partaking.... this shouldn't even BE an issue that drives someone to vote an elected official in office. It just shouldn't.
It is almost like witnessing the "hippie" movement from the 60's all over again, except this time they are technological, ideological hippies.
I again ask myself, where did we go wrong with raising our kids?
Kids being raised in a single parent household not having direction from their parent because they have to work in order to provide for them is an issue. (Special shout out to all the parents making it happen!) Without a parent or guardian there to help guide children in their early years of development is undoubtedly a problem. I believe kids are turning to Hollywood and celebrities to show them how to behave. Which leads them to believe that the only way to be productive and wealthy is to be an entertainer. Studying the arts is fine, but they need to know there needs to be a Plan B. Education is key!
I'm also not thrilled with the dumbing down of our students. In order to be "fair" we have to make it so all kids perform at the same level. That makes no sense. No more "F"s because that may hurt someone's feelings? Please. Socialism is being taught to be warm and cuddly goodness; forgetting to add that most of our ancestors fled that kind of government control.
Feelings are another problem. We have conditioned children to not know they are allowed, can, and will fail at something to the point that we have kids murdering one another over not accepting their invitation to a school dance. Rejection isn't an experience we are teaching them to deal with and that is proving detrimental.
Society has bowed down to progressive thinking and it's ripping our nation apart at the seams.
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