Do you feel that we are creating a "ME" generation, who feels entitled to all life has to offer?

Question

I was just wondering if anyone else felt the same way that I do, that we are creating a generation of 'ME" obsessed children who are only concerned about themselves.

When I was a child we has to "Try Out" for a team, I can remember being devastated the first year in 4th grade when I tried out for Cheerleading and didn't make it..but it didn't destroy me, it just made me all the more determined the next year to make it, which I did!

Then We all had to sign up for Soft Ball and Basketball and try out we didn't automatically make it on the team..some made it some didn't those were the breaks..we licked our wounds for a while and then we moved on to other things in our lives.

Now a days Children don't have to try out for anything, they automatically make the team, and if too many sign up they just make more than one team. And every child gets a trophy no matter how good or how bad they or their team did..how is this teaching them anything?

They have every luxury laid at their feet, form X-Boxes, Wii's, New state of the art computers, cell phones, ipods, you name it they have it,how are we teaching them anything..I can't even get the kids I watch to go outside half the summer, it's a battle.

Does anyone else have an opinion if we are creating monsters, I mean have you been to a store lately were you haven't heard some child screaming at the top of his/her lungs because they aren't getting the second or third thing they asked for today, what's wrong with us when did they become the rulers of the house?

Answer 1

When our government and the aclu gave children the same rights as adults.  BIGGGGGG  MISTAKE!

Answer 2

I know EXACTLY how you feel!  As a kid whenever I wanted something, it was my problem.  I could do a paper route or some babysitting or whatever if I wanted it that badly... and that taught me SO much.  Nowadays its "daddy bought me the new car I totaled yesterday" or "mom's getting my third i-pod tomorrow".  What those kids don't realize is that your landlord won't pay your rent because you showed him the puppy eyes and your creditors wont buy you new ipods without charging through the roof interest rates.  I don't mean to stereotype, but when I look around its hard not to.  So many (the visible minority, I suppose) are out to be what they see on t.v. It's like they surpassed all of those little "life lessons" that were incorporated into mine and my friends' childhoods.  I just hope they learn them sooner rather than later, and realize just how fake and unsatisfying the lifestyle they're pursuing are.

Answer 3

You're absolutely right.  Parents who do this to their children are setting them up for failure.  The world is not going to give your children everything they ask for because they scream and throw a fit.  Every adult doesn't get the position at the new job, so every child should not get on a team just because they tried out.  As parents, it's our job to prepare our children for adulthood, they won't be able to pout and get their way forever.

Answer 4

I agree with you.  My daughter is still little but she WILL be raised with manners and address adults as MR. or MRS. unless told otherwise. She WILL play outside ( I have nothing against video games etc and don't care if she plays them ) but it's not going to be all day everyday.  She will not talk back to me on a regular basis....I'll tell you while growing up I would NEVER talk back to my mother.  I remember one time I kinda "got in her face" and she chased me up 2 flights of stairs and I had to run in my room while she was inches behind me and hold my door handle shut so she couldn't get in.  My mom is great to me but now a days if something like that happened people would be talking left and right.  I was spanked when I was little and it didn't turn me into a physco or anything, I have a great relationship with my mom.  Anyway I also have to say I just LOVE how a child will scream the whole time in a grocery store so everybody has to listen and then at the check out they are "rewarded" with a candy bar to shut them up.....That should teach them not to scream right!?  Some people UGH.

Answer 5

Yes.

But that's your problem, dear generation X and MTV-ers. You have completely and totally failed at parenting, and have now doomed an entire generation with your incompetence.

Answer 6

I want it NOOOOOOOW!