I don't think we can blame Gen. Y for this one
While there are exceptions, animals are usually a product of their environment. If we're screwed up, it will largely be because we have been screwed with. How can a generation just go bad? It doesn't, and the reason behind it lies in the world that the older generations have created.
I'm not actually saying that we're screwed up and that baby boomers to blame, but for those that do thing that, consider the probable reason for it.
If we're ****ed up, you're to blame
Yep this BB agrees. By the bye, extensive long-term studies of twins brought up in the same household, twins separated at birth and brought up in different households, adopted children, siblings brought up in same household, siblings separated and brought up in different households have shown that parenting has absolutely minimal to zero effect on the outcome of these children as adults.
... If we're screwed up, it will largely be because we have been screwed with. How can a generation just go bad? It doesn't, and the reason behind it lies in the world that the older generations have created.
I'm not actually saying that we're screwed up and that baby boomers to blame, but for those that do thing that, consider the probable reason for it.
Bowman, don't know when you grew up, but if it was the 1980s you should have been afraid..
Oh yes, yes, find somebody responsible for behaviour.
As if nobody can think for themselves, or do better then generation before with all the baaad examples.
...Monkey see, monkey do.
I wish the kids of today would learn how to spell and use punctuation correctly... but I also wish a lot of the adults of today would too.
This is rubbish.
There is no way that this could be tested as you described, the confounders are unmistakable.
Genetics plays a small role, and nuture plays a MASSIVE role.
I wish that your post did too.
Fair enough for monkey.
But humans can think for themselves and do better if they want to.
Of course they can use the MONKEY excuse too, it is their choice.
My point is that we learn by watching those around us. If those around us do not set a good example, it is unreasonable to expect us to do so in the future. If a certain generation is acting a certain way, rather than criticise, perhaps you (not you specifically) should think about why they're acting that way.
Do you mean my "..." rather than a comma?
I know it may not technically be correct but it certainly reads just as well.
The phrase was acually: "Give me a child until he is seven and I will give you the man".To paraphrase It was Plato or someone similar, "give me the boy for the first seven years, and I'll give you the man". But maybe kids were expected to be more adult in behaviour way back then?? I think nature has some influence, which is then shaped by nurture.
So where does this leave the kids of tomorrow.......???
I wish the kids of today would learn how to spell and use punctuation correctly... but I also wish a lot of the adults of today would too.
Perhaps you could rewrite Joe's post, Soft Dough, to demonstrate what you think it should be.I wish that your post did too.
"Give me a child until he is seven ..."
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