Is our generation more sloppy and tolerant now?.

7sr2z3fely84g5

Bear with me on this,when on a unforunate trip to do some grocery shopping,i would observe some children being given sweets or something else to shut up them up crying,some would be heavy for their young age,i think some parents are gone to the stage of can't cook/wont cook.

Or if children give insulting remarks or swearing at someone,the parent would usually laugh and praise the child.

I think also some are becoming more mollycollyed now,sitting in buggies at age when they can actually walk,or you can't say anything now without causing offence and hurting someones feelings...

mikemac

Take off those rose tinted glasses

The past (70's, 80's,90's, whenever) wasn't some golden age when children didn't speak up and everyone knew their place

wild_cat

Perhaps...

I do have a memory of my mother saying I couldn't come to the shop with her as I was still in my pyjamas, apparently being seen outside in them made you look unkempt and lazy... This was in 1991.

Times and attitudes really do change.

liah

Every generation complains about the new generation of kids. Since the dawn of time.

The irony is they're all basically the same. When you were a kid, plenty of parents were treating their kids llike that. You just didn't notice it, 'cuz you were a kid, and had more important things to worry about like building sandcastles or eating ants.

Nostalgia is lovely but the past isn't all it's cracked up to be - I'm delighted kids these days are growing up in a part of the world where it's okay to be gay, it's okay to be a woman, it's okay to be black, it's okay to dress different, sound different, believe differently, etc. I mean, yeah, these groups still see some discrimination, but only from the minority. We have it pretty good these days.

You only take notice of kids/parents like that because they're loud. Doesn't mean they're not in the minority though - it's just, the 'normal' ones don't stand out, so you don't see them.

Only difference I can see that I'm genuinely sad about is the seeming loss of freedom for a lot of kids.

Azureus

Its not the kids I generally have a problem with in supermarkets and places, its the headwrecking parents that insist on taking buggies into small-aisled shops like boots and getting narky at you when you politely ask them to excuse you as you try to get by.

jester77

Back in my day....



... I was just as bad

kfallon

liah wrote: »

and had more important things to worry about like building sandcastles or eating ants.

I find you just can't get good ants these days :pac:

The King of Moo

While every generation does think the next is the worst thing ever generally, there are some things about the way parents raise their kids now that really bugs me. The general spoiling and not correcting bad behaviour in public, epecially when it annoys other people.
I once worked in a shop where a woman with a toddler had just bought a load of stuff, mostly for the kid, and was leaving. But the kid was crying so she went back and bought a book for it (€5-10 probably) to shut it up. Seemed a bit extreme, when a "shhh" might suffice.
Also hate parents with those little plastics cars the kids sit in that they push around in the supermarket. They're so big and awkward and many parents will just plough straight towards where you're standing perusing the fine array of condiments and expect you to move out of the way of their little precious!

Ray Palmer

Sloppy is a strange one. Considering people would now shower more than they did in the 70s when people generally had a bath once a week. Hygenically speaking people would be much better now they way I look at it.

There is less insistence on silly formal stuff like wearing a tie to every office job. To be more tolerant you are going to get the view from some that we are more sloppy . My mam insists a shirt not buttoned to the top is sloppy and if you button it to the top you should wear a tie.

Seloth

Which generation are you on abou as theres a good few different ones of boards now ya know :P