People over 60 - what is your opinion of the younger generations?

Answer 1

You can't lump them together as one big group. All people are individuals, and different from the next.

It would be just as accurate to say that all people over 60 are cantankerous and rude.

Regarding the youngest 0-10 years of age...kids are kids and if they are allowed to BE a child, then they are no different from the majority of us when we were growing up...loving the adventure, just for the sake of it. Wanting to be out and about with their friends instead of working around the home. Boundless energy, and the willingness to spend it on energetic sports of all kinds, as long as they are fun.

Most of the 11-19 year olds, unfortunately, have surrendered to "popular styles" as advertised in music videos and movies, and are intent on living their lives as if they were going to go on forever, no matter what. They really don't consider that a street race will kill them. Or that people really do die from alcohol poisoning, or a mix of drugs and alcohol. They NEED all the latest toys, or they'll JUST DIE! Wear all the latest fashions, with the proper labels. And their parents just go on indulging them, because it's easier than having to deal with the tantrums when they are told NO.

Then the 20+-30+ year olds are more or less intent on getting on with their lives. You have the college crowds who think that attendance at a university qualifies them to party continuously, but they are in the minority at most universities. And once even they get out into the work force, they realize that the boss requires being listened to, or they just WON'T earn a living. And then, of course, when the majority of them start their families they really do tend to settle down to grind away at daily life and raise their families.

Men in their 40's and 50's are beginning to realize that they missed out on a whole lot of living for themselves, when they put that aside to raise their families. Unfortunately for those families, these men look attractive to the young women just starting out at supporting themselves...they see a well-established individual who has corporate power and the bucks that go along with it. And they begin to covet that power and lifestyle. So they shamelessly pursue these older men, 3/4's of whom succumb to the blandishment. More than 50% leave their wives and families thinking they will now be able to recapture their lost youths, which even works for awhile, until their new little playmate comes up pregnant, and they are trapped raising a SECOND family. They don't even realize that they have screwed up any chance of retirement until their second families start getting old enough to attend university, around the time that dear old Dad had hoped to be sailing through the Caribbean.

And the 40 and 50 year old women are left to raise their families alone for the most part. There just aren't that many divorced men of their age that opt for an already established family, and raising children that aren't their own, when they can capture one of those horny 20+ year-olds.

So you're left with us...the people over 60. We look back on our lives, and we see where we made all those wrong decisions. We look ahead, and half of us are coming close to our retirements alone, while the other half of us have no chance of retiring because of young second famlies. And we realize that we really do have to hold on tight to what we do have, because the world is conspiring to take what little we have away from us, what with the continuing rise in the cost of living, and property taxes and income tax, and now they're coming out with taxes on the few things we CAN afford to buy and calling them luxuries....!!! It just never ends.

So our opinion of the younger generations...well we look back at them and we see ourselves at that age, and we just shake our heads, and wonder if they are going to be smart enough to make the RIGHT decisions.

Answer 2

By the time you reach that landmark, you realize that you can't generalize about anything - especially generations. We like to meet people and get to know them on a one-to-one basis before making any judgements or forming any opinions.
Some members of the younger generation are really great people, interesting, fun to know. Others are dead from the neck up. And there are huge numbers who fit somewhere in between those two extremes.

Answer 3

Every older generation for thousands of years has thought the young people were worse than theirs. In a way I envy the younger generations as they have many more opportunities than we did. When I was young, everything that interested me I was told I couldn't do. This was because I was female, or would want to marry one day, or have a baby, or it just wasn't lady-like. What a crock. The younger generations are what they were raised to be, some good, some not so good.
Aren't we all????

Answer 4

I have deep concern for our young people today. They are the best educated generation but are being robbed of a carefree youth by the mess in the world. I'm 62 and would not reverse those didgets if I could. I had my opinion enforced lately by reading some answers on this site regarding senior questions. These kids today are smart. They've also got some screwed up fads that I can't really understand, but didn't we all. We older people are counting on the young people to protect our American values and our way of life.

Answer 5

I'm still a few years off but I do worry about my grand children more than I worried for my children.
The younger generation these days on the whole don't have any respect for elders. They don't respect the police because the police are so openly corrupt.
They don't respect teachers...In-fact the society we live in; tells them that they are equal to their elders and should only give respect in return for respect.
I think many youngsters today are doom to a hard life because their futures depends on their elders giving them jobs.
Who is going to want opinionated, disrespectful and bigger than their boots young people to work for them?

Answer 6

Whome and Luckyjohn19 are correct. The younger generation is the same as its always been throughout human history. No better or worse than any other generation.

Answer 7

God keep us! properly, the media might have us think of that. yet i think of on the instant's youthful human beings is not any distinctive from previous generations. they have stressful circumstances and issues to over come. they might desire to handle peer rigidity the comparable and fogeys too. the only element that I concern is they have too plenty too quickly. yet, with any luck like previous generations they'll learn and workout accountability and be attentive to that obtaining a stable education is particularly significant. there are various extra opportunities on the instant and that i see young infants taking earnings of a few those issues. i think of i may be ok in my previous age with those childrens gazing over me.

Answer 8

the younger generation will have their troubles and trials the same as we had. they are also giving us ( the older generation now ) which we gave the older generation when we were young. they will grow old and wonder about the younger generation.

Answer 9

I like the young - they're more or less exactly the same as I was 40 years ago.

Every generation thinks it's smarter than the generation that came before it and wiser than the generation that came after it.

Answer 10

I'm not yet over 60 but I'm kinda set in my ways. I have 2 beautiful, perfect, granddaughters and I'm going to be pissed if they turn out like the majority of students I have. Don't get me started.