An interesting quote by Socrates.

[Kazzo]

This is up in one of my Doctors rooms.

“Our youth now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for their elders and love chatter in place of exercise; they no longer rise when elders enter the room; they contradict their parents, chatter before company; gobble up their food and tyrannize their teachers.”
― Socrates 469 BC - 399 BC.

Imagine what he would think today.

[Tinks]

I love it!

[~TT40~]

some things never change =P

[willow5]

Sounds much the same as now to me, maybe it was never really any different

[Calluna]

I don't think it really is different now. There its just more children, and more and different ways for them to display those behaviours.

[Teeki]

I think every generation thinks this about the next one. Eg my parents think my age group are so much more unruly than they were. But then they tell us about when Dad smoked pot and held drag races just outside of town, and Mum skipped school. I've never done any of those things! Even my Papa has told me of the naughty things he got up to with his brothers lol.

I dunno, I just reckon people forget how their generation weren't so perfect as youngsters, and there are just different ways of the"acting up" now.

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[willow5]

I do think this generation, so teens now, are more violent. More so for girls.

[Maruschke]

Eh, I'm not convinced the old way is the better way. It wasn't that long ago that (in my opinion) kids were actively disrespected. They were told to be seen and not heard, they were disciplined in a semi-violent way, their needs were seen as far far less important than adults. I think kids get a fairer go at the moment.