Good article about today's generation. Well, not good, but well put.

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  • January 9, 2013 at 3:47 am
    missceegee
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    Here’s a link and its all so sadly true.

    http://www.foxnews.mobi/quickPage.html?page=22995&external=1891255.proteus.fma#quickPage_html_page_22995_content_86339495_pageNum_1

    January 9, 2013 at 4:04 am
    Heather
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    Thank you for sharing.  So true!

     

    January 9, 2013 at 4:13 am
    Jenni
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    Ugh, how sad that I recognize so many in that synopsis.

    January 9, 2013 at 4:15 am
    ServingwithJoy
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    Wow – such a good article about the effects of social media on kids today.

    Honestly, this generation reminds me most of the young people in the 1920’s…optimism, pride, and living in a bubble. Of course the Great Depression and WWII took care of that for those who went through it.

    Hope and pray that the kids today don’t have to go through pain like that to discover some humility and the real meaning of life.

    January 9, 2013 at 12:41 pm
    Sara B.
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    Just read it myself before I stopped in here. I realized that about the 2nd to last paragraph could have added some words about Christ & been perfect.

    January 9, 2013 at 1:59 pm
    Rachel White
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    The self-esteem movement worked…there’s little work ethic or respect or critical thinking skills and they are Biblcally illiterate; but they feel good about themselves.

    January 9, 2013 at 2:29 pm
    suzukimom
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    You know – I remember when that movement started…. in about 1978.  I was watching some early morning kids tv (for kids a bit younger than me…. but it was what was on before school….) and there was some show that I was watching that’s message was along the lines of “You are the most special person in the world” – and I’m sitting there going “what a load of crock”….   About a year or two later I got my first “participant” ribbon (which I figured was as good as garbage.  

    January 9, 2013 at 4:02 pm
    Heather
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    Rachel, I shared your comment on my FB page a minute ago when I shared that article.  I hope you don’t mind, but it is sadly so true.

    January 9, 2013 at 4:48 pm
    Rachel White
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    Heather, I don’t mind. Maybe it’ll help get the point across to someone; kind of like a hit on the head with a hammer-DOING!! I read a word that was used in reference to this phenomena: specialitis; and it’s antidote: ordinary holiness.

     

    January 14, 2013 at 11:10 pm
    alilac
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    You know I read this when it came out. I can’t tell you how many parents tell me their kid is “gifted”. I can’t tell you how many threads I’ve read where the schools told them their kids were gifted, only to get them home and find they don’t know what a noun is (and they were “gifted” in Grammar).

    Parents of these children need to come back to earth. Really. But I think it’s about comparison, not about how smart or how popular they are.

    Unfortunately it’s creating a toxic society.

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