What does the older generation think of the younger generation? ?

Adjectives? Are you an English teacher about to grade me? I'm in trouble!

The younger generation is just like we were. The older folks say they are going to hell in a hand basket. Of course they always forget, they raised the young ones, and the kids are just trying to emulate them.

I'll admit it's an oversimplification, but ALL generations since WWII, have just tried to be cool, and wanted to get laid.

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There are good and bad in every generation, allot of the kids today are confused, but with the way things are done now, I can understand why they are. We have to get them jobs so they can work after college, and that's where the older generations are failing at. Washington is doing everything in creation to make the young peoples lives more difficult, that's why the younger generation has to vote out all that crud.

The children of today seem much nicer, gentler people. The later teens to early 20s seem lost in an extended childhood. Laws like ACA are calling them children until 26 now so even after college they aren't untied to parents. Earning a living is much harder for some of them landing the first job in the field they trained for might not ever happen, depressing for them. Student loans will cripple some of them so they can't afford to have children before they are 35.

Some are over protected from life so will get rude surprises when follow your dream doesn't work out or they can't leave home and get an apartment with no credit or work history.

'Over 30' is 'the older generation'? Wow, I missed THAT memo!

I consider the 'older generation' to be any generation at least 20 years older than I am. That puts me pretty squarely between old and young, to my way of thinking.

I find that there is sometimes a lack of respect for tradition and courtesy ... correct spoken and written English, offering one's seat on the bus to an older rider, making allowances for, and extending courtesy to, one who may not need help but might appreciate a little patience (paying with change from a coin-purse, or writing a check ... or maybe not moving quickly-enough down the aisle of a store).

I find some young people to be a bit loud and full of themselves, but still 'good kids'. Most still have some growing-up to do, but so did we at their age. I can usually look past their bravado and see them for what they are ... young adults who are finding their place, and are still making mistakes as they learn how to do that.

I'm a senior citizen and can tell you that when I was growing up kids of my age would say "don't trust anyone over 30", and then when I got older they would say "don't trust anyone under 30". So you see the trust is the same on both sides.

Since I'm older now, never had kids, never had kids around me, don't have any kids around me. I can frankly tell you that I don't think anything or anytime of any younger generation or young generation. I'm way too busy doing other things with my life.

There are a lot of serious, hard-working and good people in the young generation. Unfortunately we hear about the loud-mouth, rude and lazy. I do think many have too high expectations.

That college degree isn't always the magic wand that gets you everything you desire with the economy the way it is now. For young people who have had everything too easy that is a hard reality.

One of the things I admire in general about this young generation is their sense of fairness and open-mindness.

One of the things which distresses me is the number of those who have turned to some pretty nasty drugs to check out.

I am in the older generation (over 60 crowd). I think of most of the younger generation as respectful and I am hopeful of them. (I need to be because they will be running the Country in 20 years).

As with every generation there are good and bad. And as with every generation no one should judge anyone on their looks.

The causes for a lot of the things older people (Over 60's) complain about like bad manners and disrespectful behavior can be laid at our feet. Manners and respect are taught by parents, and the parents of today's youngsters are the children of the 60-ish people of today.

I complain about ill manners and disrespect, but to be truthful I see as much of that from the under forties as I do from teenagers.

My only worry for the youth of today is that a vast majority of them seem to lack communication skills. They can chat away via text and on internet chat rooms but they are awkward and lack confidence in real relationships.

What bothers me the most is the way young people view themselves by the way other young people do. It seems the norm today for young people to get college grants for housing, food, and cloths just because it's there. And don't worry about paying it back. Us older folks working have to pony up the funds for college kids to lay back and enjoy free living. If, in fact, they are going for a better education and good job opportunities, that's great, but how many are doing that or just milking a free ride while they can?