Kids these days...

[utvolpj]

College students think they're so special - Health - Mental health | NBC News

Today’s college students are more narcissistic and self-centered than their predecessors, according to a comprehensive new study by five psychologists who worry that the trend could be harmful to personal relationships and American society.

“We need to stop endlessly repeating ‘You’re special’ and having children repeat that back,” said the study’s lead author, Professor Jean Twenge of San Diego State University. “Kids are self-centered enough already.”

Twenge and her colleagues, in findings to be presented at a workshop Tuesday in San Diego on the generation gap, examined the responses of 16,475 college students nationwide who completed an evaluation called the Narcissistic Personality Inventory between 1982 and 2006

[BandVOL]

Unfortunatly I had to tell my 20 something year old son that he was a narcassistic , self centerd azz and **** you if you don't come for the Holidays

I have to wonder out loud who raised this kid the other 4 are not like this...I blame the wife and her family

[salutethehill]

Originally Posted by BandVOL

Unfortunatly I had to tell my 20 something year old son that he was a narcassistic , self centerd azz and **** you if you don't come for the Holidays

I have to wonder out loud who raised this kid the other 4 are not like this...I blame the wife and her family

He's an adult. I'm talking about kids where parents ultimately have control.

I witnessed a 9-year-old boy open his birthday present from his parents, which was an iPhone 5. The kid immediately broke out in tears...not sobbing, CRYING...ran past his dad, straight to his mom where he collapsed on the floor. She then picked him up (both were crying at this point). The two carried on hugging each other and telling each other they were the greatest mom/son on the planet. It was actually the most entertaining part of an otherwise abysmal birthday party.

Maybe I'm the weirdo. Maybe that's normal. IDK.

[Jax_Vol]

Originally Posted by vader

In other news: Stay off my lawn.

Put up a goalpost

[Jax_Vol]

Originally Posted by salutethehill

Overly emotional..."non-conformist"...gonna cut myself..gothic...leave brittney alone...kinda like these guys vvv

Thank you!

yes, imho, and from a far distance away....that problem is much worse than it was 40 years ago. yes, we had a few bad then. But the % number has grown at least ten-fold...probably more than that.

in a graduation class of 300, we had maybe ten odd kids. Now days....whew?

[coug]

Crazy kids

[therealUT]

Originally Posted by Jax_Vol

Thank you!

yes, imho, and from a far distance away....that problem is much worse than it was 40 years ago. yes, we had a few bad then. But the % number has grown at least ten-fold...probably more than that.

in a graduation class of 300, we had maybe ten odd kids. Now days....whew?

Highly doubtful. I imagine that when you graduated, you thought there were only maybe ten odd kids out of three-hundred; your parents might have thought there were fifty; your grandparents probably thought there were one hundred fifty.

The "kids these days" laments go back for thousands of years of recorded history.

[Jax_Vol]

Originally Posted by therealUT

Highly doubtful. I imagine that when you graduated, you thought there were only maybe ten odd kids out of three-hundred; your parents might have thought there were fifty; your grandparents probably thought there were one hundred fifty.

The "kids these days" laments go back for thousands of years of recorded history.

that is true

[hmanvolfan]

Originally Posted by vader

In other news: Stay off my lawn.

[Panthro]

Off topic, but I miss the feeling of accomplishment after looking something up in the encyclopedia to answer a question.

[vol_in_ar]

Originally Posted by vader

In other news: Stay off my lawn.

Originally Posted by Orangesmokey

Get a hair cut too.

Originally Posted by vader

And turn down that music. It is just noise anyway.

Originally Posted by Obsessed

And pull up your pants!

Best Dennis Leary voice

I want coffee flavored coffee too

bunch of Old Farts

[vol_in_ar]

Originally Posted by Panthro

Off topic, but I miss the feeling of accomplishment after looking something up in the encyclopedia to answer a question.

google too quick for you

[Orangesmokey]

Originally Posted by vol_in_ar

bunch of Old Farts

I'm 31. I don't think that's too old.

[Panthro]

Originally Posted by vol_in_ar

google too quick for you

Yes.
I'll never be able to tell my kids to "look it up" when they ask me for an answer I don't know.

[Captainzach1]

I wonder how ppl felt when electricity came around. I wonder if they said my kids will never have to light candles to see....what a shame.