A Tribute to “These Kids Today”

     In your lifetime alone, how many times have you said or heard others say “These kids today…?  It’s oftentimes an opener to discuss how children and teens are ridiculed for being disrespectful, baggy-pant wearing, nasty attitude having, and never gonna get no where in life going.  I have coined “these kids today” as being problem focused.  Sure, kids during this decade have their share of new problems. With more and more sexually transmitted diseases on the rise, out of the closet relationships particularly among school-age children, and being products of single parent households, America has a lot to complain about!  

     This brings me to my next thought of self-fulfilling prophecies, defined as the inevitable truth that surfaces when one tends to think or believe in something so hard that it actually comes true.  People sometimes use it in a positive sense in relation to Christian principles: that “if you think positive thoughts, they will come to pass” and also true for thinking negative thoughts.  I wonder if we use this concept with “these kids today” and try to be more solution focused as oppose to dwelling on all the mishaps, would we have better kids today?  Would they expect more from themselves? Would they appreciate themselves better? Would they raise their own bars?

Wishing you and your community well,

Roslyn L. Warren, NCC