December 6, 2007 | Filed under: Grrr...arrgh., get meta with me!
Never believe it’s not so!
Oy.
Kids these days…
Kids!
I don’t know what’s wrong with these kids today!
Kids!
Who can understand anything they say?
Kids!
They are so ridiculous and immature!
I don’t see why anybody wants ‘em!
Just you wait and see
Kids!
Kids! They are just impossible to control!
(Soon you’ll be old enough to be)
Kids! With their awful clothes and their rock an’ roll!
(Another teenage delinquent)
Why can’t they be like you were,
Perfect in every way?
What’s the matter with kids to–
Kids!
What the devil’s wrong with these kids today?
Kids!
Who could guess the they would turn out that way!
Why can’t they be like we were,
Perfect in every way?
What’s the matter with kids?
What’s the matter with kids?
What’s the matter with kids today?
December 6, 2007
@ 9:38 am
I can’t help but think this is what our grandparents thought about washing machines and vacuum cleaners. They are magic! I don’t really know what it was like to live in houses that have never ever been vacuumed, or to have to wring out my clothes in a wringer.
I feel this way all the time too. What is freaking up with these kids these days? The ones in their twenties drive me the most nuts. Hipsters. The children of the hippies who decided in the 80s to “settle down” and go get rich. And those ex-hippies have given their now-adult children: 1) lots of $$ and stuff / trust funds / expectations of being given more stuff for very little work; and 2) a kind of pseudo-liberal politic that makes them think they are cool + green + beyond-racism + beyond having any bad impact on the planet or other people — ie: an utter lack of a sense of responsibility for their actions or existance. Those two assumptions together are killer. Oh, in fact, they usually get really judgmental about everyone else not being just like them. Aaaah. It wears me down!
So I hear you — I’m “OLD” too. More grey hairs than four. And overwhelmed sometimes by how many times I think that same thought — “these kids these days ?!?!?!?!?!! WTF??”
December 6, 2007
@ 10:30 am
“Oh the times, they are a changing”
Hmm. Sorry…I can’t agree with you on this. I’m 42. Computers in school? We didn’t have computers when I was in school.
The first computer I owned was in 86. Paid oh so much money for that 1 meg ram upgrade. Hard drive? Yeah…I didnt even have one in my first computer. It was the floppy-swap back then. I jumped online with BBS sites pretty much since then. High-speed? Heh…yeah. It was wicked fast. Of course, I think I had more patience back then.
People have been posting mean, hateful, spiteful, congratulatory, intelligent, nice, happy, condescending, wordy, thoughtful, inspiring, creative…you name it comments since “online” existed.
It’s not the kids these days. It’s been like this ever since there was a “this”.
December 6, 2007
@ 10:38 am
Hey Bekah, it’s not drama, it’s passion. And I completely agree with you. Why do *anything* to be mean? That’s like a total mutation of the human spirit.
December 7, 2007
@ 9:20 pm
Ok, I wanna know what inspired the post…..who was mean to you! I will hunt them down and take away their Ipod….majic indeed…
December 8, 2007
@ 2:27 pm
My Kid
My teenager is smart
and he is cool
but he makes me feel
like a big stupid fool
Who had who anyway?
I ask scratching my head
did he really come out of me
in that hospital bed
And if so then why
does he act like my master
talking back constantly
oh what a disaster!
I’ve got no one to blame
Mom said it would be:
“you’ll reap what you sow”
she said, “wait and you’ll see”
Now that time has come
I just hope it ends soon
My kid is my judge
he says: “Mom, you’re a loon”!
written for my son Thomas
when he was 14 years old
2002 by shoshana rose
December 13, 2007
@ 10:01 am
Because lots of kids (most?) at some time experiment with cruel, and must learn not to be cruel. What are the disincentives for cruelty? My own was a broken heart. How did you learn that kindness was a more satisfying way to be?