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Modern Kids Thanksgiving
« on: November 23, 2018, 11:35:31 AM »
So, one of the family members has 2 kids.. boy and a girl ages 11 and 12.

They show up to Thanksgiving tablets in hand already playing games. They sit on couch and play games all day, don't really interact with anyone for most of it.. well the one boy kept asking me if there was wifi.. i said yes but told him i didn't have password (this was at my parents house.. i dont know the pw since they never use it.. i could find out but hey fuck you kid get off your fucking tablet)

When mom gets there she says 'oh usually we feed them but we didn't have time'

????

Proceeds to make grilled cheese sandwiches for them both. They don't eat any of the prepared food.

Now there was a really solid traditional food setup.. Turkey, Ham, Stuffing, various casseroles.. normal stuff but good. That ate nothing other than the grilled cheese.

A few hours in they start complaining 'i'm bored can we go???' and the Mom is like 'in a minute'

Finally they leave so they can take the boy to Gamestop on fucking thanksgiving to buy a game.

Modern america?

I mean, we obviously didn't have tablets when I was 12 but I still remember having a fine time a Thanksgiving.. if listening to the crazier family members spill gossip alone. Also I may not have liked lima beans and the like when I was 12 (still don't) but fuck me home made pumpkin pie and ham with a honey glaze and cheddar biscuits and such? who turns that down? From what I've gathered they are on the 'only eats chicken nuggets' diet.

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Re: Modern Kids Thanksgiving
« Reply #1 on: November 23, 2018, 11:38:12 AM »
sounds about right...

makes me glad I never had kids I would probably get put in jail for abuse for insisting they put their shit down and go outside.  :P

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Re: Modern Kids Thanksgiving
« Reply #2 on: November 23, 2018, 11:39:29 AM »
sounds about right...

makes me glad I never had kids I would probably get put in jail for abuse for insisting they put their shit down and go outside.  :P

Oh the tablet would have been in the fucking garbage

Or better yet, at home in a drawer

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Re: Modern Kids Thanksgiving
« Reply #3 on: November 23, 2018, 11:40:43 AM »
Oh the tablet would have been in the fucking garbage

Or better yet, at home in a drawer

pretty sure these days that would be child abuse...

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Re: Modern Kids Thanksgiving
« Reply #4 on: November 23, 2018, 11:44:23 AM »
Why I believe after the generation born in the 80's maybe early 90's that's it.

We're doomed and I'm not kidding either.
These kids mostly have no work ethic and will plug in as soon as an interface is readily available.  They all have ADD and aren't able to relate to anyone outside their own age range.  Addicted to all electronics - but the phone and tablets are their heroin.

I believe when we're all older they will have no problem sending us off to euthanasia centers.

We should all be ashamed but we keep pretending everything will be alright.  We must all believe in magic.

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Re: Modern Kids Thanksgiving
« Reply #5 on: November 23, 2018, 12:00:24 PM »
Why I believe after the generation born in the 80's maybe early 90's that's it.

We're doomed and I'm not kidding either.
These kids mostly have no work ethic and will plug in as soon as an interface is readily available.  They all have ADD and aren't able to relate to anyone outside their own age range.  Addicted to all electronics - but the phone and tablets are their heroin.

I believe when we're all older they will have no problem sending us off to euthanasia centers.

We should all be ashamed but we keep pretending everything will be alright.  We must all believe in magic.

I don't think you are far off. The only saving grace is.. who will maintain the euthanasia centers? If any section of its operation can't be summed it in under 3 steps its probably going to fail.

I mean seriously.. Millennials are their own beast. Some are fine but we have a few in our family that are nearing 30.. still living at home.. that have never had a job for any length of time. Ask them what's going on and it's an endless stream of excuses. When i was 30 I was married with a house and a dog. There is some hope here as not all Millennials are useless only a portion.. but that portion is pretty helpless.

Gen-z or whatever the tablet kids are? That's what does scare me. These kids are definitely addicted and don't seem to be able to think on their own. The parents get a lot of the blame.. instead of parenting they just let the kids sit on the tablets 24/7. Even that I don't understand.. I love computers and the like but my tablet has an inch of dust on it.. I don't like using it that much. Also instead of facing reality these kids are just allowed to live in whatever tablet world they inhabit never being forced to do what they don't want.. eating chicken nuggets and complaining all the time.

I can't even imagine trying to deal with these kids in the work place.. if they even make it that far.

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Re: Modern Kids Thanksgiving
« Reply #6 on: November 23, 2018, 12:04:46 PM »
I love to rip on millennials etc as much as anyone..

Have to say though I have met no lack of people my own age that cant put down the fucking phone for two seconds either.

Its not just them...

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Re: Modern Kids Thanksgiving
« Reply #7 on: November 23, 2018, 12:27:08 PM »
I don't think you are far off. The only saving grace is.. who will maintain the euthanasia centers? If any section of its operation can't be summed it in under 3 steps its probably going to fail.

I mean seriously.. Millennials are their own beast. Some are fine but we have a few in our family that are nearing 30.. still living at home.. that have never had a job for any length of time. Ask them what's going on and it's an endless stream of excuses. When i was 30 I was married with a house and a dog. There is some hope here as not all Millennials are useless only a portion.. but that portion is pretty helpless.

Gen-z or whatever the tablet kids are? That's what does scare me. These kids are definitely addicted and don't seem to be able to think on their own. The parents get a lot of the blame.. instead of parenting they just let the kids sit on the tablets 24/7. Even that I don't understand.. I love computers and the like but my tablet has an inch of dust on it.. I don't like using it that much. Also instead of facing reality these kids are just allowed to live in whatever tablet world they inhabit never being forced to do what they don't want.. eating chicken nuggets and complaining all the time.

I can't even imagine trying to deal with these kids in the work place.. if they even make it that far.

Each generation definitely had it's own issues and challenges but this generation Z has some major issues.
It's sad to watch.

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Re: Modern Kids Thanksgiving
« Reply #8 on: November 23, 2018, 12:27:55 PM »
I love to rip on millennials etc as much as anyone..

Have to say though I have met no lack of people my own age that cant put down the fucking phone for two seconds either.

Its not just them...

This is very true!   The modern cell phone is like crack!

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Re: Modern Kids Thanksgiving
« Reply #9 on: November 23, 2018, 02:51:23 PM »
i fix laptops, PCs, smartphones, tablets, other IT crap...lol.

my 13 year old is attached to his iphone, but it's reality here. i find myself saying:

put it down, we're playing volleyball in the backyard.

put it down, bedtime.

put it down, eat.

put it down, movie you wanted to see is on.


sad thing is...we had thanksgiving meat about 2:00...i have my laptop at the table, setting up my fantasy football team...

& my wife won't get her azz off facebook.


we 3 are all part of the problem. ;) but what really kills me, is my son says he'll shop for $30.00 an hour.

what friggen career mistakes did i make when you can shop for 60 grand a year...or be an instagram model for more?
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Re: Modern Kids Thanksgiving
« Reply #10 on: November 23, 2018, 04:55:19 PM »
Sounds like shitty parents mostly.

It's also a different scenario today than it was when we were kids though. I mean yes, my parents were pretty much constantly telling me to "stop playing video games and go outside" in the 80s, but even when I had the rare opportunity to play as much as I wanted there was an end point. I had a limited number of games and eventually you either finish them or get sick of them and move on to doing something else, so I also spent a lot of time swimming with my friends, reading books (remember when going to the public library was a treat? wow...), etc. during summer vacation and the like.

Now the information/entertainment/online "social" bullshit never ends. There are unlimited games, videos, apps - whatever you want. 300 hundred hours of video content is uploaded to YouTube every single minute of every day. Literally no one can keep up with it, even if you just focus on a few narrow topics. As much as those shitty kids might complain, they stopped manufacturing boredom in this country back in the late 90s. You just can't get it anymore, outside of prison at least.

Thinking ahead though, so these kids go to high school, they probably go to college - and then what? Just live with their parents, leech off them and don't work? I'm sure that's going to happen for a lot of the upper middle class+ kids, but for the ones with parents who either won't put up with that shit, or just can't afford to give their kids a free ride forever, well those kids are going to have to learn how to function in a job pretty damn quick. Kids who grew up with less, and/or with less indulgent parents, will have a huge advantage.

I probably won't live long enough to see it, but there will likely still be a glut of them who just live off their parents, never get a job or develop any social skills and suddenly find themselves alone, at age 50 or so, and discover there's no inheritance because their parents spent it all taking care of them for decades.

And yeah, lima beans are still fucking terrible.





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Re: Modern Kids Thanksgiving
« Reply #11 on: November 23, 2018, 05:14:45 PM »
Another thing is that kids age 20 & younger were born into a world where "social media" is the norm. They've never known otherwise.

As far as they know they're SUPPOSED to read, "like", comment on, etc. - every damn stupid thing that everyone they know posts on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and the rest - and then they're supposed to make their own uninteresting bullshit for those platforms as well.

If no one has ever told them any different, well it's easy to see how they think "that's just how the world is" and also how it's supposed to be. A lot of their parents are on Facebook constantly too.

Some will figure it out as they get older, a few never get trapped in that to begin with, many of them are just doomed though.

With the rapid progression of automation though... we're not going to need those kids in a few years anyway. Or us, probably.
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Re: Modern Kids Thanksgiving
« Reply #12 on: November 23, 2018, 05:42:53 PM »
I used Screen Time on the kids devices so they can only get so much a day without asking for more. This forces them to do non-phone/ipad things. It's not perfect, but it's something.

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Re: Modern Kids Thanksgiving
« Reply #13 on: November 23, 2018, 06:45:27 PM »
Maybe the tablets are just more interesting than your family?

Just sayin...

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In my day we didn't interact and/or eat with the adults anyway. Hell injecting yourself into an adult conversation for any reason other than blood or fire would get ya backhanded without even a look.
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Re: Modern Kids Thanksgiving
« Reply #14 on: November 23, 2018, 07:40:12 PM »
I’m going to have to put a lot of those children’s poor behavior on poor parenting.
My 12 year old daughter loves her phone, and the internet, but puts it away when asked and participates in family meals and activities like a well mannered young lady should.  We had a very pleasant family Thanksgiving.  Her older sister earned a full ride academic scholarship to UCF and is a very hardworking student. 
The blame needs to go to the parents that feed their children grilled cheese at Thanksgiving dinner and allow 30 year old children to live at home.
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