TODAY'S YoUNG PEOPLE
Older people tend to forget they, too, were once young.
We take turns at bearing the label “ Youth” during which time we serve as specimens to be studied, examined, cross-examined,, tweaked, fine-tuned and adjusted as we are checked to see how we compare to those who have passed on to the next level of life's sometimes rather cruel regimen.
The common result of such judgment is far from kind. It is, all too often, a condemnation pointing out the way in which we think youth has changed.. We reflect on how “ we were at that age” and compare it all to the way youth appears to act today
I have long felt many of today's criticism of young people are improperly conceived. It is almost as if , while the basic game remains the same, the ground rules, the very nature of plays, and the variation in crowd acceptance of the results has been radically modified. There has been a complete transition from the way in which offspring grow from being children into becoming adults. And hurry! Be quick about it or be lost.
It's all a faster process today./ Society today seems to rush the process at every step. Young girls in their Middle School years, are often parentally paraded and urged to dress as adult women and to be skilled in purposeful use of cosmetic trickery far ahead of their years, Both boys and girls are expected to be qualified drivers of many types of powered vehicles even before they reach legals ages of doing so. As one result of that. they become individuals much earlier than they did at one time, and are eager to be on their own. And often unaware of he new responsibilities they have to assume. Economic conditions are such in modern times that parents find it commendable when sons and daughters want to pay their own way or the help with pressing family desires. The costs of education and medical care have skyrocketed out of sight and both children and parents find it to be difficult to aspire to even modest coverage. Sports scholarships are in far greater demand than academic assistance.
Education has changed far more than educators seem to realize. The very nature of the process of learning has been modified with the emergence of computer technology. our social mysterious is fought with problem's of how education may best be fitted to the special needs of youth today, but it remains for many educational entities to realize what has taken place. They are coming around to provide the youthful scholar needed facilities and new goals to provide works for a labor market which has changed spectroscopically-offering a far greater world of opportunity than any which has ever gone before.
Young people. The game remains the same in one sense. but the rules governing how is might best be done are yours to discover. Good luck
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A.L.M. May 4, 2004 [c481wds]
