sergio masci wrote:
>> Byron Jeff wrote:
>> > You're dealing with a cultural and generational issue here. I got a 
>> > chance
>> > to hear a local Psycology professor speak a couple of weeks ago on the
>> > Millenial generation of students. She listed a host of common traits 
>> > that
>> > they simply do not share with previous generations:
>> >
>> > - Self centered
>> > - A coddled sense on entitlement.
>> > - Rejecting of authority
>> > - Feels alienated when chastised
>>
>> "The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for
>> authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of
>> exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households.
>> They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their
>> parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross
>> their legs, and tyrannize their teachers."
>>
>> - Socrates (470 - 399 BC)
>
> Our children can read us (their parents) like books. They see us when we
> are selfish, envious, unjust, self opinionated, shallow and full of shit.
> They endure teachers who are mediocure and begrudge the job they are in.
> They listen to the lies of the politicians and the commentry of the sour
> apathetic adults. They listen to adverts on TV that tell them not to be
> content with what they have. If you want to blame anyone, don't blame the
> children - we made them the way they are.

Sergio, I think that perhaps I did not make my point clear enough. The 
situation had remained virtually unchanged for the past 2500 years. On the 
whole, children today are no better or worse than their parents were, when 
they were children.

My 1 year old is self centered, acts like he owns the place, regularly 
rejects the authority of his mother and father, and doesn't like to be 
disciplined. Just like every other 1 y.o. I've known.

I think it is natural for children and young people to have a strong 
tendency to be rebellious, argumentative, and to take risks. Just as it 
seems natural for old people to grumble and reminisce of the "good ol' 
days."

Vitaliy 

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