Posts tagged as Kids Today
Knifecrime Island Adults Think Knifecrime Island Children Are Becoming Feral
"What hope is there for childhood in the UK today if this is how adults think? We seem to have forgotten the fact that most children are well behaved and instead we are unquestionably accepting a stereotype of young people as criminal and revolting. We aren't asking people to put up with yobbish behaviour, but we do need to change our attitudes towards troubled children." READ MORE
Teen Brains Fluctuatey
"The mental ability of teenagers can improve or decline on a far greater scale than previously thought, according to new research. Until now the assumption has been that intellectual capacity, as measured by IQ, stays quite static during life. But tests conducted on teenagers at an average age of 14 and then repeated when their average age was nearly 18 found improvements – and deterioration." Big deal, my IQ fluctuates pretty much every day. Although that is probably related to alcohol.
College Kids Enjoy Alcohol, Study Finds
"A new study finds that many college students believe the positive effects of heavy drinking outweigh the negative consequences. According to study participants, heavy drinking increases courage, eases communication, and has other social benefits that overshadow negative effects of hangovers, fights and regrettable sexual situations." They left out the part about how alcohol also temporarily relieves the sorrowful burden of existence, but other than that I have to say that I am pretty impressed with the knowledge and understanding displayed by our nation's college students. It's a very proud day.
The Death Of Instant Messenger
I still use AIM. That's right. I am an AIM user. This apparently makes me old. The kids today, with their Facebooks and Gchats and beeboos or whatever it's called, they laugh at me when I tell them I use AIM. Oh, you should hear the mockery and disrespect, the snickering. It burns, the way they do an imitation of me using a walker. Some of them have even asked me what AIM is. Anyway, I have been content, in my stubborn, fogeyish way, to remain on AIM even as my group of contacts moves on to the newer, flashier thing. It is a kind of digital natural selection, I guess. So learning that "AIM is effectively dead" isn't exactly shocking, but there is something a bit disheartening about the finality of it all. What will I do now? Anyway, excuse me, I need to go wind my watch.
Study Finds Association Between Coolness, Sociability
Science, what's going on with the youth of today? READ MORE
Talking About The Young People Now
"What is so downright perplexing is that the young now seem so much more severely serious than the old. Even so much more conservative in a special sense—the sense of honoring and cherishing the very best that's in them—like sincerity, openness, honesty and love. While the middle-aged so often express cynicism and self-disappointment." READ MORE
Millennials, Hispanics Conspire To Destroy The Soup Industry
Why do our young people hate soup? "Soup consumption by those under 25 is declining twice as fast as the under 25 demographic is declining relative to the total population. Between 2001 and 2010 the US population under the age of 25 declined as a percentage of the overall population by 60 bps while the percentage of soup consumers under the age of 24 (defined as anyone who consumed canned soup in the past 6 months) declined by 130 bps, or over double the decline relative to the overall population." Hispanics aren't helping either, "soup penetration in Hispanic households has declined from 50% in 2001 to 47% in 2010, while average US household soup penetration has actually increased from 63% to 64%."
Horrible People Do Awful Thing To Teddy Bear
Terrible news from North Carolina, where a symbol of innocence and hope has fallen prey to the innate cruelty and emptiness of heart that seem to be the hallmark of the age: READ MORE
