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Young people of today

Young people of today
Today's youth…
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Today's youth loves luxury, has bad manners and no respect for authority. They contradict their parents, cross legs and tyrannize their teachers.
Socrates

Socrates lived 400 years before Christ, yet you'd think he was still alive today. For how can it be that the quote above seems so familiar to us, and no one can believe that this quote over 2400 years old?

Didn’t you already say that too?

In the past everything was better, today's youth has degenerated ....
In my day everything was different, at least, we learned manners ....
... but the young people today na na na, something must have gone quite wrong in their education.
Defiant, naughty, warped, don’t honour father and mother.
And even more so at school: it's getting worse, no more respect for the teacher; they just do what they want.

Young people of today: I think we forgot much too quickly how we were once ourselves and losing the tolerance and patience.
We should be much more relaxed: with us, our children and teenagers. ©: www.youthwork-practice.com

Do you know all this?

Don’t you read this or same every day somewhere in the newspaper?

It is strange how little young people apparently have changed in the last 2,400 years; despite mobile, despite media consumption, in spite of repeatedly changing school systems and curricula, despite the latest scientific findings in pedagogy.

I think that this quote from Socrates actually is encouraging, it knocks you out of the skies:

Keep calm - it’s all very normal.
Don’t overrate it.
Could I see something entirely wrong?
Maybe I've forgotten how I was when I was young?
Maybe I was never young, or maybe I am already old like the hills that I cannot remember anymore?
Maybe my parents never had a problem with me?
Maybe I'm in a bad nightmare?
Perhaps something is wrong with me?
Maybe I despise young people?
Maybe I put myself too much in the centre and take myself way too seriously?
Maybe everything has to be the way I want it to be?

No! I think we forgot much too quickly how we were once ourselves and losing the tolerance and patience. We should be much more relaxed: with us, our children and teenagers. Everything's aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaall normal ....