MSU Red Cedar Message Board

Wow! You're half my age and are more of a grzzled old coot than I am. Congratulations, sir!

I can see both sides to this arguement. I think kids are soft today because of parents enabling them. Parents need to kick their kids off the couch or PS3 or whatever gadget they're messing around with and get them outdoors. Also, they need to teach them respect. There is a reason we have a lot more fat mouthy bastards out there than we used to.

Now, I used to walk to the bus stop every day on a major hwy. Never thought anything about it until a cousin of mine was hit by a car one foggy morning while riding his bike to school ( RIP). I also worked as a C/O in the MDOC for 15 years, so yeah, I have seen the worlds filth up close and personal. So I can see where a parent could have concerns. Personally though, i would hate to live a life in fear that something bad could happen to my children if I let them walk down the road to the bus. You have to let them go at some point, let them learn and make decisions on their own.

It's the Everyone Gets A Trophy generation. You can't have true competition because you don't want to hurt anyone's feelings when they get second place.

As a teacher, I see it every single day. It drives me up a damn wall sometimes.

Too many kids these days are lazy, feel entitled, and just disrespectful.

It's amusing to see people in their 20's and 30's already pissing and moaning about younger generations. Then again, like you said, we are tRCMB.

Got any studies/evidence to show that there are no more abductions now than 10, 20, 30, 40 years ago?

Maybe it is just as common, and I'm sure if you ever have a kid abducted and raped, you'll say, "Well, that's ok, cause it happened in the past. At least my kid isnt soft."

My daughter doesn't have an option other than to be driven to school (private school), so its not like I'm one of the parents described in the OP. But I understand it. Hell, we used to take off on our bikes and our parents wouldn't know where we went and they wouldn't see us for hours. You'd be stupud to let your kids do that today.

Wow, when someone in their 20s starts ranting about "kids these days", I feel very elderly. I also long ago accepted the fact that (a) helicopter parenting is here to stay, but (b) the world is definitely not the same as it was when I was young...meaning, its less innocent and more dangerous. At least that's my perception anyway.

What does this have to do with kids being soft. This is more of a rant about parents being too paranoid and overprotective, but you literally said nothing about anything kids have done to prove they're soft.

It's not that I disagree with you, but if you're going to rant do it right.

um, actually it kinda does..... remember when kids told their parents to get lost and were too cool to have mom watching over them..... that was called independence...

nowadays, little johnny is cool with mom chauffeuring him around and giving him spit baths in public to wash the snickers bar residue off his fat little cheeks

I wonder how many 20 somethings on the rcmb live with their parents.

I doubt that is really up to the kids. Actually, I could walk a mile to the bus and then take that near my work and then walk another mile. Or I could ride my bike 10 miles to work, but I choose to drive in my nice comfortable car. I suppose that makes me soft, but most adults do the exact same thing.

Is this really the case that kids are soft today? Or does everyone else have some delusional memories of themselves being bad asses when they were kids.

Again, I don't necessarily disagree, I just haven't seen any real evidence that kids today are softer than they used to be. Just a bunch of whiny internet geeks making bold accusations.

Wanna live in East Lansing this summer? I'm trying to find a subleaser.

The bus stop was always great to torch the 1st bowl of the day.