What’s with the kids today?

[oteps]

Its the parents fault. They give kids a phone or tablet so they don't have to deal with them. Kids don't learn any thing they will need later in life. I told my son he will learn basic carpentry, electrical, plumbing and how to work on his car before he grows up.

[steplift20]

I wasn’t very clear about what I meant. My kids the two of them that came are good. There not kids anymore but my grandkids. That’s what I meant. One doesn’t do anything and my granddaughter all she eats is salad. My kids don’t eat also. One is texting all day what an$ who are you texting? Geez. My oldest is like me. A cool kid with a sense of humor. My youngest couldn’t make it ,he was fishing. He works on a party boat tires of the holidays.
It’s definitely not how it was when I was a kid. The one word I would eliminate from every saying again. Is. Social media. I friggin hate it. Sure we chat on this site. But if we had a choice I would call on the phone. And actually talk. Remember that? We gre2 up in the best of times. Today it’s not.

[scook]

A sad thing is that even kids who are parented reasonably well are exposed to a lot of peer influence from the masses of kids who aren’t. Obnoxious, dishonest, destructive behavior is normalized and promoted on social media and demonstrated by enough other kids that it takes some serious parenting to keep kids on a good path.