What do you think are the biggest challenges facing today's youth?How do they differ from when you were young?
In 2 words... facebook bullying!!! I tell you, we thought we had it bad when we were kids if we were bullied, but at least generally speaking, when kids were at home they were safe from the bullies..nowadays there's no escape for them. I wouldn't like to be a kid today...
IMO every generation appears to have bigger challenges than the generations that came before them yet each generation seems to make it. I would be worried if I was starting out today but I think the kids today are prepared for the new and different challenges that they face.
The worst challenge for children is to get an education that has balance. The whole public and universities education system have been so corrupted by leftest ideology that they will not even let someone speak that has a different idea. Balance has been lost the problem with this is, it will probably swing to far right next time. Even the internet which was the last chance for balance is now being censored by the left.
Today is different in every aspect than 50 years ago. Technology has a big part in the drastic changes. I am sure this generation will pull through - just as we and their parents have- but with many challenges for years to come. We are leaving a mess behind, that hopefully they can clean up . I have never wished to be 16 again
I don't think they differ at all. The real challenge is Adapting to change/ school/divorce/classmates/sickness/deaths/
I think that today's youth feel pressured to grow up sooner than we did, rushed through or deprived of elements of childhood. They can be sexualized at a disturbingly early age, and feel inadequate to meet the unrealistic models danced before them by popular culture. The need to feel electronically connected at all times is generating stress and anxiety for them, and causing perceptual distortions and misperceptions...
Every generation faces its own challenges. Just a few generations ago, children were dropping out of school and finding jobs to help support their families at 13 or 14 years old in many cases. Childhood became a sheltered "class" during Victorian times, but Many of my relatives quit school to earn money or to care for young children when their mothers died. Now children don't have to be adults until they are 26, but they get the privileges at 18.
An educational system that is designed to produce educated pawns who view themselves as uniquely equipped to steer the course of history, who spout talking points, while fearing nothing more than having to think for themselves.
The biggest challenges facing young people are coping with the effects of climate change and migration physically and, mentally, with their real addiction to antisocial media and, for a large number of them, to cope with their cognitive bias of illusory superiority.
I think too many kids have too many step-parents and half & step siblings and may feel lost within their parents over-active mating quests. The child wasn't born with a job to help his/her parents get over their own lacks and needs. I see boredom and lack of hope in their own futures as some reasons for this opioid explosion. I believe the financial crunch too many of us suffer from leads to a sense of insecurity in parents and children and that needing more than one job to support one's family encourages childhood loneliness and alienation. Mostly, I just see a lack of hope in too many of today's youth. Maybe they are just being realistic. The thing I really instilled in my son was: "I hope you find a mate and you two love, trust and support each other; I hope you have a job that will take care of your financial needs THAT YOU DON'T HATE to go to."
The biggest challenge to youngsters today, is knowing what to do with their hands if mobile phones suddenly stopped working, never to work again