What's the Matter with Kids Today?

[MineralMan]

Apparently, not much at all. They look a lot like the kids from any time at all. Here's a set of photos from Prom 2017, picked at random from a Google image search. Check them out. They look just like the kids from 10 years ago, or, in my case, over 50 years ago. I hope they all had a wonderful time:



http://www.trbimg.com/img-5909d739/turbine/cctnews-cc-prom-liberty-2017-20170430-pg

[LSFL]

1. yep

The dresses are more modest than they were in my day too.
Personally my kids and grandkids kick ass.

[MineralMan]

2. Well, they may have been a little more modest in my day.

I don't know. I just remember the girls looking great in their dresses and the boys looking a little nervous in their tuxes. Pretty much the same as in 2017. I just thought I'd show some photos of today's kids at the Prom. It all looks very familiar, and good luck to them all!

[Cracklin Charlie]

3. To answer: Nothing!

I am lucky to get to hang out with lots of young people.

Considerate, tolerant, intelligent, optimistic, inclusive, and WOKE are just a few adjectives I could use to describe my young friends. They rock!

[pangaia]

4. The guys are much more creative dressers than in my day..

black or white tuxes.. that was it..... Booooring..


I especially like the guy's red shoes in the 3rd photo..

[MineralMan]

5. That's certainly true enough.

I didn't spring for a tux. I just wore a bow tie with my charcoal suit. Nobody seemed to care all that much, really.

[zanana1]

6. Other than the fact that some of the girls look slutty...

I hope they had a good time, too.

[MineralMan]

7. Slutty? I didn't see any girls who looked slutty.

How do you define "slutty?"

Uff da!

[nini]

8. Which ones look slutty?

[MineralMan]

9. I didn't see any of those, either.

Everyone looked like they had all their naughty bits covered up. I thought they all looked really nice, with a lot of personalized choices in their dresses.

[zanana1]

18. I'm old. nt

[nini]

19. I understand

I see girls sometimes that dress in a way I wouldn't but those gowns look ok to me.

[hatrack]

14. Huh?

[femmocrat]

10. Totes adorbs!

We used to have a decent weekly paper here that published photos of the local prom-goers. The camo and cowboy outfits always had me scratching my head.

The kids in the photos you posted all look lovely. Hope everyone had the time of their lives.

[MineralMan]

12. I remember our local weekly paper publishing a two-page spread

of photos from our 1963 Prom. There's a copy of it in some box at my parents' house, I'm sure. Styles have changed, but we all looked a lot like the kids from the 2017 photos, really. I remember a lot of bare shoulders that year and strapless dresses. We had a great time, as I remember.

[Aristus]

11. Nothing. The kids are all right.

I really love young people today. They give me hope for our future, simply beause they want us to have one.

While inter-ethnic and inter-faith prejudice still exist, most kids I know today reject artificial means of dividing us, and are cool with the incredible diversity of our country.

[tblue37]

13. I teach undergrads & tutor grades 3-12. I like kids, and as someone who has worked

closely with kids of all ages since I started teaching in 1972 (including 18 years running a home daycare and helping to raise 35 kids, many from infancy and toddlerhood, as well as my own 2), I think I have enough experience to say that today's kids are still smart, likeable, and decent people.

I do think, though, that childrearing practices in some US demographic groups inculcate habits of mind and behavior that reinforce dependency and learned helplessness rather than independence, responsibility, initiative, and perseverance.

Fortunately, most of the kids I teach manage to recognize these weaknesses sometime during their first year of college and find a way to overcome them, or at least to mitigate them, because despite those counterproductive habits of mind and behavior, developed over many years of unfortunate conditioning, they really *are* good kids, and they really do want to learn and to become mature and capable adults.

The kids are all right.

[FLPanhandle]

15. It's fun to read history and how every generation complains about the next generation

There are passages from ancient Greece complaining about the "kids of today who no longer show respect", etc.

Every generation was the target of complaints from their parents generation, then that generation complains about the next generation.

Basically, kids are kids and don't really change. Parents just forget what it was like to be a kid.

[Brother Buzz]

16. Why can't they be like we were, perfect in every way?

I really thought I was going to open this thread and see a video of Paul Lynde belting out "Kids" from Bye, Bye Birdie

[TlalocW]

17. They're all hiding their fidget spinners

For the pictures.

Just kidding.

TlalocW