What bugs teens about their generation?
Dec 29Straight Talk asks teens: What bugs you most about your generation?
From Jarrad, 16: We’re shallow. We’re too concerned about what others think. We can’t accept the way we look naturally and feel the need to dye our hair, pierce and tattoo ourselves, install fake breasts.
From Nick, 17: It seems like everyone follows what their parents believe, not thinking for themselves. I saw this especially around the election. Also, we’re very lazy and apathetic compared to other generations, like drones or sheep. We don’t care about others’ feelings. In fact, my generation doesn’t care much about anything.
From Farren, 17: We are lazy. We’re living in a comatose world: TV, pain killers—we’re like “living debris.” Girls are really naïve today, very promiscuous, doing drugs, needing to be as slim as possible, having the perfect body. Everyone’s overly dramatic, like they’re the center of the world. There is constant whining and needing of sympathy, and at the same time, a lack of sensitivity to others’ feelings. No one is nice anymore. Everyone should love each other. Respect shouldn’t need to be earned, it should be a given. My generation suffers low self-esteem in general and I think that’s because parents are more concerned with how other adults perceive their parenting job rather than getting to know who their kids are and parenting from that angle.
From Lennon: 18: An obvious annoyance about my generation is the consumer thing: how much we want expensive things, just the right look, just the right clothes. What I also find is that my generation has an inflated feeling of self-importance. A lot of my peers like to pass their responsibilities onto their friends. If the person resists, then they make that person wrong by guilt-tripping them. There is minimal sensitivity or caring of others’ feelings. We’ve got all these individual personalities and each one thinks they’re the center of the universe. Like demigods. It’s very imbalanced: take, take, take. Spoiled is not the right word. Demanding is not a strong enough word. “Commanding” is a better word. What one personality wants, it thinks it has a right to command. It probably has a lot to do with the fact that so many of my generation were born as “only” children.
