If you begin to pray in Latin, you will, at some point, be confronted with medieval hymns that rhyme. And then you’ll begin to wonder if you haven’t descended into the realm of the magical and the superstitious. For example, this hymn to the Virgin M…

Without struggle there is no value. The major role of a parent is to provide measured struggle while ensuring absolute security. Somehow we lost sight of the fact that struggle is necessary. We began to worry more about what harm we would do to our children when we should have been worrying about what harm life would do to them if they left home unprepared.

My children don’t dare challenge my authority, just as I don’t challenge my father or him his.

You may not like your dad, but if you’re in my house you’d better respect him.

The Chickens Are Coming Home to Roost Hotair.com is featuring a story about the ill-effects of two decades of the disease known as “self-esteem” (i.e. “self-conceit” Webster’s). The word “self” should sound alarms! That’s Christianity 101… …

Anyways, yes my students are more Narcissistic than ever. I’m amazed that they think that they will be millionaires after high school.

The saddest one was the girl (she was fat none the less) whose parents told her she could get a “record contract” when she turned 18 and she seriously thought she was the next big thing. Every time I teach her (I’m a sub), I dread her. She never does her work and is failing most her classes.

I have also read that the narcissitic turn in culture can explain why more and more people have personal blogs, whether or not they live interesting lives.

It’s almost impossible now for an American student to be able to transfer into a foreign school system, but foreign students find it easy to handle American schools. American kids’ educational skills are so low, at every grade, they can’t handle the foreign levels of work.

I disagree with this point, because I am one of the American students who has successfully done this. (I just realized that this response might strike some as narcissistic…sigh.) I did it at a Japanese private university in Tokyo called Waseda. Many of my friends have done the same at schools all over the world. Foreign language education can go a big way towards competence in a study abroad program. Don’t write off American students as a whole. The good seeds are out there, I promise. Just make sure they have their heads screwed on right before they get to college, and encourage them at every turn. (But do so without relying on boomboxes, etc.)

So stoners & Hippies from the Baby Boomers, and Yuppies/MTVers from GEN-X can go do whatever it is people do when their time is past.

Wait a minute…members of generation X are considered old now?

Darn youngsters…

damn know-it-all teenagers with their internet and weblogs…

WoodStock vs. the Ipod/MP3 Player?

AKA: listening to music in a muddy field surrounded by drugged out hippies for the first and last time? or listening to all the music ever recorded whenever you want wherever you want?

pfft. no contest.

I’m the Internet Generation (AKA “Generation Y” or “The Millennials”)

So stoners & Hippies from the Baby Boomers, and Yuppies/MTVers from GEN-X can go do whatever it is people do when their time is past.

It’s time for us to fix the screwups of our predecessors.

AP, from 22 years in the Navy, this disclaimer was questionable. Do you think that next time you might warn us that we will have to listen to a Dixe Twits song!!!

Moi?

A narcissistic college kid?

You betcha!

To misquote Mark Twain, when I was 18, I thought my father was pretty dumb. When I graduated college, and had to get a job and start paying my own bills, I was supprised how much the old man had learned in 4 years.

(And I was man of the year, too! ;^)

Yep. He got a public castration, alright.

She got the better of the argument, IMHO.

An admission from the perp. I was pwnd. Kinda-sorta. Damn, I hate that. Via Hot Air, linking that story about Generation Y’ers, pumped up full of themselves thanks to the “self esteem movement,” about to get a cold splash of……

Some of them. The better parented ones are a pleasure to teach.

What’s wrong with thinking you can’t fail? Isn’t it the “can do” attitude that makes this country so great? I think more accurately is telling them that if they do fail, they should fix what went wrong and try again until they get it right.

pullingmyhairout on February 27, 2007 at 2:40 PM

There is a lot of difference between narcissistic foolish and the heart and character it takes to achieve great things.

Narcissistic foolish comes from others telling you, you’re great.
Heart and character comes from experience and confidence earned from ‘knowledge of achievement’.

Please don’t waste your money traveling to Nepal, climbing a mountain and asking a guru the meaning of life (if you like send me the money instead).
The meaning of life is (drum roll) Struggle.
Where and how is our choice.

Slublog: I believe it’s early 80s to late 90s. So the older ones would be in college and grad school.

Yikes. I hate it when people now in college were born in years I remember.

I try not to go down the “when I was a kid” trail too often, though it is tempting. Mainly because it’s a telltale sign of getting old!

It’s inevitable. I embrace it – my friends say I’m the youngest codger they know.

Those Born 1920-1979 TO ALL THE KIDS WHO SURVIVED the 1930′s, 40′s, 50′s, 60′s and 70′s!

First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they were pregnant.

They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a can, and didn’t get tested for diabetes.

Then after that trauma, we were put to sleep on our tummies in baby cribs covered with bright colored lead-based paints.

We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets and when we rode our bikes, we had no helmets, not to mention, the risks we took hitchhiking.

As infants & children, we would ride in cars with no car seats, booster seats, seat belts or air bags.

Riding in the back of a pick up on a warm day was always a special treat.

We drank water from the garden hose and NOT from a bottle.

We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and NO ONE actually died from this.

We ate cupcakes, white bread and real butter and drank Kool-aid made with sugar, but we weren’t overweight because, WE WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING!

We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the streetlights came on.

No one was able to reach us all day. And we were O.K.

We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps and then ride down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. After running into the bushes a few times, we learned to solve the problem.

We did not have Playstations, Nintendo’s, X-boxes, no video games at all, no 150 channels on cable, no video movies or DVD’s, no surround-sound or CD’s, no cell phones, no personal computers, no Internet or chat rooms…….

WE HAD FRIENDS and we went outside and found them!

We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were no lawsuits from these accidents.

We ate worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us forever.

We were given BB guns for our 10th birthdays, made up games with sticks and tennis balls and, although we were told it would happen, we did not put out very many eyes.

We rode bikes or walked to a friend’s house and knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just walked in and talked to them!

Little League had tryouts and not everyone made the team Those who didn’t had to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that!!

The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law!

These generations have produced some of the best risk-takers, problem solvers and inventors ever! The past 50 years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas.

We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned HOW TO DEAL WITH IT ALL!

If YOU are one of them CONGRATULATIONS!

Ahhhh, the good old days…………

All together now!