Thread: Drugging Children

Most of who have posted here I am suspecting are in their mid 40's to older. Times are different now and not for the good. A lot of young people that live around me here in Denver that I have met are or have been on Meth ? I don't get that. My generation smoked a little weed,drank a little beer and just had a fun time singing to Lynard Skynard n such. Some kids got into serious stuff like heroin,but that was the rare OMG can you believe it situation. The information age is making too many early adults...meaning young kids with adult thinking. Kids need to be kids first and our society is hell bent on making kids adults before their time. There are more early twenty somethings nowadays with high gear jobs and money than when I was twenty something. And a lot of them are very hostile to my generation. I don't mean just simple young rebellion either. It amazes me how in just one generation so much has been lost in regards to manners,respect for elders and the past etc. Not meaning to go on a rant,but I just got done reading some political stuff and made the mistake of reading the comments usually found at the bottom.There is a lot of hate in young kids minds from what I read and it seems to be bred on arrogance and ambition. Guess I'm done now. Feel kinda old and disillusioned on the future right now.

I've been a moderator on this forum for few years now and I know for sure that almost all of you are not much better than those kids you seem to consider ill disciplined.

Yes, this is ATG, but may be it's time to stop pointing fingers at others and spend more time honestly examining our own failures. Every one of us has countless opportunities every single day to effect positive change in the lives of others, and I'd rather this happen in real life instead of all the high horse posturing from behind a keyboard.

Originally Posted by gugi

I've been a moderator on this forum for few years now and I know for sure that almost all of you are not much better than those kids you seem to consider ill disciplined.

Yes, this is ATG, but may be it's time to stop pointing fingers at others and spend more time honestly examining our own failures. Every one of us has countless opportunities every single day to effect positive change in the lives of others, and I'd rather this happen in real life instead of all the high horse posturing from behind a keyboard.

I'm not sure how you come to the conclusion that those of us that have posted here are not much better than the kids we consider ill disciplined unless you know most of us personally. From my personal perspective, I disagree with that statement completely. I did my share of nonsense as a younger person but rarely did my mischief have a victim. I never participated in a flash mob or accosted any bystanders with an unprovoked punch to the head just for the sake of creating an amusing YouTube video. But to your point, I do make my own contribution to positive change every day by continuing to do my best to maintain (or better) the standards that are being kicked to the curb each day. As I see it, we've systematically removed all of the mechanisms that would produce positive change and this is where it has led us. We posture behind a keyboard because yesterday's solutions would land you in jail today. But the keyboard is not completely useless. As I see it, the problems we face are mostly ideological. The keyboard has its purpose.