Since 2004, This Canadian Urban Daddy has been blogging about life with 3 children.
Call them what you want. Generation Y, the “Me” generation, the entitled generation, spoiled, whiny… All seem to fit, but they are fed up and fighting back. These “Millennials” take aim at Generation X, the generation before them and blame us for their woes. They blame us and the boomers for not retiring and hogging all the jobs, for over-parenting them and for heaping false praise on them… Or was that, for under-parenting them and not being happy with anything they did?!?
Either way, they’re angry and they’re looking for someone to blame and that blame is on every generation but theirs. Expecting free music, free movies, unlimited cell phones, and not willing to actually having to study, work hard and put in some effort to move up in life. I think this is the ADD generation. Things come to them in 140 characters, in instant texts and high-speed download and they don’t understand that in business and in life, things just don’t happen that fast.
Try buying a house, then paying it off themselves, or changing a procedure in a large organization… It takes time.
Read the post below and let me know what you think. Do they have a legitimate reason to be pissed or are they crying in their caviar that we bought for them!
The Urban Daddy® 
holy shit, you’re so ignorant.
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… Any reason… Or just because… You can do better than that. Come on!
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I don’t know about him but I can. It is because personal responsibility advocates such as yourself come up with overly-simplistic answers. You’re trying to diagnosis and label a whole generation as narcissistic without obtaining all of the facts including the summit of their knowledge and understanding of things before they went to college. And, you’re doing so without having a license in psychology or psychiatry.
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Yup.
But keeping an open mind about it as well.
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Statement 1 “Just like it’s not the parent’s responsibility to make sure that these young adults have their hands held every step of the way or to give this generation whatever it wants whenever it wants.
Statement 2 You are your own person, so if you’re looking for a scapegoat, then you could, OR, you could bust your ass, learn to be fiscally responsible and then teach that to your parents.”
If my parents are not responsible for holding my hand every step of the way… as quoted by you then why am I expected to be responsible to hold my parents hand and give them whatever they want whenever they want including teaching them how to be fiscally responsible? Why am I responsible for that yet they’re not responsible to me to teach me everything I need to know to succeed in life?
Why such inconsistent and contradictory standards?
And…
In detail, what exactly are my parents responsibility towards me and what are my responsibilities towards them?
And…
You said “I don’t think that it’s fair…”
Well, as Charles Sykes in his book entitled “50 rules kids won’t learn in school” says “life isn’t fair, get used to it.”
And…
The younger gens did not form in a vacuum. They were raised in an environment that led up to their situation. Over the years, they were told they could be what they wanted. They were told that they could achieve and accomplish anything. And, they had to do well in school, go and do well in college so they can get a good job and avoid having to work at McDonalds which implies that working for McDonalds and other shit jobs is for failures, retards and losers. If you work at these types of jobs typically one is seen as dumb, retarded and a loser.
Kim says it would be embarrassing for her to work part time in the cafeteria.
https://pjmedia.com/parenting/2015/07/21/she-blew-90k-her-grandparents-gave-her-for-college-and-then-blamed-her-parents/
Why? Why does she believe this? No one really sought to question this. Everyone just jumped on the bandwagon that she was entitled without question.
My answer is that she was raised to believe this by years of conditioning. To solve this problem one has to change how one raises his child.
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Whew! That post was from a long time ago so I really needed to check and see what I had written, then see what the original article had to say, and no, I don’t think I have missed the point at all.
I don’t think that it’s fair at all to say that parents are to blame for the entitlement generation because it was the parents who told them all kinds of “horseshit” growing up. Just like it’s not the parent’s responsibility to make sure that these young adults have their hands held every step of the way or to give this generation whatever it wants whenever it wants.
If you grow up poor, is it okay to blame your parents because they were poor and taught you poor habits relating to money?
You are your own person, so if you’re looking for a scapegoat, then you could, OR, you could bust your ass, learn to be fiscally responsible and then teach that to your parents.
Or, you could just blame them and never bother trying to get better…
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You know what! I was going to write how full of shit you are but I got to thinking. In a twisted sort of way, You’re right. We are our own persons. If we think our parents, teachers and the older generations fucked up then it is behooves us to attempt to do it better especially with our own children. Let’s do something different. As President Trump says “Let’s make America Great Again.”
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https://whyifailedinamerica1.wordpress.com/2015/03/24/personal-responsibility-and-our-competitive-society/
I wrote this right here. Can you give me a critique and if I’m wrong on anything I have said then please show me. Thank You!
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You completely and utterly missed her point. Her point is if they are who others say they are then it begs the question of who raised them? Who were the ones who told them all kind of horseshit as they were growing up. If they’re entitled and narcissistic then who made them entitled and narcissistic? Who was the ones who were in charge of them? It’s the older generations and if they’re the ones who raised them then shouldn’t they be sharing in the responsibility pie?
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