Do you see anything good about today's teenage population?

Question

Because all I ever hear is bad, bad, bad. Do you think that modern teens are MORALLY superior to previous generations in any way?

Answer 1

Today's teens are (as a group) less racist, less sexist, and less homophobic.

Tolerance is a great thing.

Answer 2

That's what every generation says.
If it's teenagers who are just making bad choices, why is our country three trillion dollars in debt? And we elected Bush twice?

Yeaaah.

Answer 3

I received an email a couple of years ago similar to the following that was used to put down todays kids as couch potatoes, lazy, and self centered. I in turn forwarded it to my kids, acknowledged that the description below was the truth about the world I grew up in, apologized to them for allowing the hippiecrits and the liberal idealogues the power to take these freedoms away, and further apologized for the neurosis of the current "conservative" parents of teens who took all of our mothers warnings and made them into the law branding everyone on the block as under suspicion and/or a closet pervert.

To all the kids who survived the 1930's, 40's, 50's, 60's and 70's!
First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they were pregnant. They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a can, and didn't get tested for diabetes.
Then after that trauma, we were put to sleep on our tummies in baby cribs covered with bright colored lead-based paints. We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets. There weren't any plugs in the electric outlets and some of us learned not to stick scissors blades into them.
As infants & children, we would ride in cars with no crumple zones to absorb accident damage, no car seats, booster seats, seat belts or air bags. Riding in the back of a pick up truck on a warm day was always a special treat. When we rode our bikes, we had no helmets to protect our heads. We undertook some risks when we hitchhiked or rode the Pawley family bus system (later the county bus system) in Dade County.
We drank water from the garden hose and NOT from a bottle. This was particularly risky in west Hialeah if you drank from the well water hose because most of us were on septic tanks instead of the sewer system and probably most of western Dade County was that way back in the 50's and 60's.
We fished along canals and lakes chock full of water moccasins on land frequented by rattlesnakes. Sometimes we swam or were pushed into the same canals and we survived.
We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and none of us actually died from this. We did have a crude saying for those friends who used too much lip over the bottle opening though.
We ate cupcakes, white bread and real butter, drank McArthur's or Velda Farms' whole milk chock full of fat, ate ice cream full of fat, ate too many Royal Castle hamburgers and too much pizza, and drank Kool-Aid made with sugar, but we weren't overweight because we were always outside playing!
We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the streetlights came on. Some parents would yell or whistle loudly when it was time to come home. Other than that, no one was able to reach us all day long. And we were just fine.
We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps only to find out we forgot the brakes. After running into the bushes a few times, we learned to solve the problem.
We did not have Playstations, Nintendo's, X-boxes, no video games at all, no 150 channels on cable or satellite TV, no video movies or DVD's, no surround-sound or CD's, no cell phones, no personal computers, no Internet or chat rooms! A lot of us didn't have air-conditioning in our homes until the 70's, but it seemed like we had ocean breezes to cool us off somehow.
We had FRIENDS and we went outside and found them! We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were no lawsuits from these accidents. Some of us ate worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us forever.
We were given BB guns for our 10th thru 14th birthdays, made up games with sticks and tennis balls and, although we were told it would happen, we did not put out very many eyes.
We rode bikes or walked to friends' homes and knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just walked in and talked to them!
Little League had tryouts, often at parks miles away that we had to ride bikes to, and not everyone made the team. Those who didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that!
The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law and the police officers who nailed us!
These generations have produced some of the best risk-takers, problem solvers and inventors ever!
The past 50 years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas. But we had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned how to deal with it all!

agapefromnc

Answer 4

yes, we teenagers can change the bad reputation that the ones b/4 have left.we are not superior we have more opportunities to sin (or maybe the same) but we can make our own choices and do good.

Answer 5

yes I do. teens always get a bad wrap from older people. just last week on one of the morning news shows, two teens, a brother and sister, were awarded each a million dollar scholorship to their choice of colleges because they-------------had started a campaign which grew nationwide to send prepaid phone cards to soldiers.

there are many good kids, but like most news stories, it is the negative and the shocking that get the air time. Kids today have to deal with drugs, gangs, and random murders in their schools..........all we had was peer pressure and pot and the occasional fight that got out of hand and was taken off campus

Answer 6

It isn't that teenagers of today are "bad"...or worse than any other generation.

It's just that they have far more opportunity to express and communicate the very worst of themselves...

Answer 7

I have a teenage son and he and his friends are great kids--kind, more tolerant, more concerned for the environment.

Answer 8

At least we know they're fertile.

Answer 9

No I do not think that "modern teens" are MORALLY superior to anyone. Not all teens are morally corrupt. It's just the negative behaviors stand out more than the positive behavior. And that's what is giving teenagers a bad reputation. I'm sure we all have experienced an older person discriminating against us when we were teens.

Answer 10

Same old, same old...Ever since Elvis Presley came on the scene, the same things are said.
Way back when The Beatles first started singing, parents were SHOCKED and HORRIFIED at the song, "I Wanna Hold Your Hand"!

ROFL.....What a hoot!

Answer 11

People are always the same. I am very tired of people talking about how my generation is screwing up the planet. Not only is that totally erroneous, it's bigoted, no different than me declinig someone for a job because they are old.