Do you think young people are generally more selfish than their parents and grandparents? Should parents and grandparents teach young people how to be helpful to others? What things did your older family members teach you that were useful in your life? What are the advantages and disadvantages of being young or being old? Most countries give young people rights to drive or go to the military at a certain age. What’s that age in your country? In what age do people retire from their jobs? Is it the same age for men and women?
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Mohanad A
9/18/2012 05:53:28 am
No not the young and not old, because depend on the family they grew up. Did they tech them to respect the old and the young or not so all about the way they breeding. Yes, they should do, as I said if parents educate their kid good habits then there is no problem with them to show respect to others.
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Fatima Al
9/18/2012 02:39:13 pm
No I don't think young people are generally more selfish than their parents and grandparents ,because it's depend on how they grew up. Yes old people should teach young people how to respect and be helpful with others, because old people have more experience than young people. My older family teached me alot of stuff like respect , don't lie , be honest , following directions, and be strong with life. The advantages to being young that when you do mistake people forgive and give you chance, the disadvantage is that you do the same mistake u did,the advantages to being old that you know everything you have experience in everything you know what is the wrong and the right , in disadvantage that you do the stuff that not in your age. In my country 19 years old should go to the military.Usually 65 years old the retired age for men and women.
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9/20/2012 04:02:39 am
Yes, I agree that the younger generation are generally more selfish then their parents and grandparents. They have not seen much the practical world. Their is much difference between the love of parents for their children and the love of children for their parents. Parents think that whatever they have is for their children. But the case is not same with the children.Young people have more often than parents had theirs and it makes them more selfish.Not to say that parents are more selfish than their children because parents take their children all the best and always wish them good.
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Andrey Kishchenko
9/20/2012 08:55:41 am
No I don’t think young people are generally more selfish than their parents. It all depends on the way they grow up. If the young people are taught bad habits. They do those habits. If they are taught good habits. They do those good habits. If they are taught to respect their elders. They will respect their elders. They there are not taught. They do not respect there elders.
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Nadiia .H
9/20/2012 09:31:25 am
Yes I agree that the younger people are generally more selfish than their parents and grandparents. All younger don’t understand their parents their thing about their self a lot it is not very good for them. I think all younger need say for their parents to say thank them because they grew up them. My opinion about that the children don’t have a law generally more selfish than their parents. All family has different rules depended on the family grew up. My mother always told me want to be more simple I try do it but it is very hard sometimes.
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Yenizel A.
9/20/2012 10:40:17 am
If I think that young people today are more selfish, because in those days there were given many tastes we now comply. If we are to teach should be useful for some people as well. Educated as their parents, the studio and that prior healthily amused. The advantage of being young is that now we have many opportunities to study as well as to work. In Mexico the right to drive at 18 and going to the military is 15 or 16 years. I think a minimum of 55 years on he can retire from your job. Not for men is more than 60 years I think.
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Ignacio A
9/20/2012 10:41:39 am
I believe the truth if youth are more selfish if that things always go begging their parents without important if they have money or not. I think if the parents are the ones who have to teach us how to be useful for someone who is difficult even better. I think the most useful things are the values but the values are the hardest things to teach the truth. The disadvantage of being old is that being old youth may not take it with you if you experience more like a game. If I think that if the majority of countries allow a certain age they grasp that offal forms impossible rules are fulfilled in every country the truth. It is here in my country is like at 15 or 16 but as and lived in Mexico before the age is that you know if to the handle 10 to nobody but the LICENSED design anything you can get to the 18 years. Truth is not that old since eh never had a family that retired from work sorry. I think if it is the same age as men and women that if there is equity.
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Cassandra A
9/20/2012 11:04:58 am
I think if now, guys only think about themselves. I think as parents, grandparents and young have values instilled by our parents known we should be supportive and willing to help others. My parents helped a cousin to care for a long time with their four children. The advantages of being young is that you have power and strength to do the things you want and the disadvantage is that life puts many events where you can fall and you have to learn to stand up. The disadvantage of being old is that you no longer have the strength or energy to do things for yourself. The advantage is that you already have someone with experience and know what is right or wrong. In my country for driving must be 18 years old and go to the army 21 years.
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Dalila S
9/20/2012 03:01:46 pm
I dont think that young people are generally selfish than their parents and grandparents. I think the young people have different costumes than old people. I belive that many years ago the costumes was different than today. The old people loved each other does not matter if the people were poor or rich.
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hossein hamidi
9/20/2012 07:44:44 pm
We can't say the young or parents or grandparents is more selfish
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Alexey Santalov
9/21/2012 06:18:21 am
I think that young people are generally more selfish than their parents and grandparents. It happened because nobody in families teach youngest family members to be helpful to others. My opinion that parents should spend time with their children more to teach them to be helpful to other because nowdays young people are surrounded with a lot of bad things: cruel computer games, horror films, films with cruel murders, real films about murders and cruelty on the Internet.
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Elvira Kolesnikov
9/22/2012 04:52:58 am
No I don’t think young people are generally more selfish than their parents. It all depends on the way they grow up. Parents should teach their children how to respect and be helpful to others. My parents taught me many things, like respect, honest and decent. I always try to follow what I was taught. When we are young we have a lot of energy and effort, but lack the knowledge. In old age, it is exactly the opposite. In Russia, young people can drive a car as well as serving in the army at 18. Older people are retiring men 65, women 60 years of age.
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Natasha St
9/22/2012 10:25:39 am
Parents should teach kids how to be helpful to other. Also parents should be helpful and respectful to other people. Parents also should now who are their children friends, because friends affect a lot on children. When parents teach children good habits but they have friends with bad habits it does not work very well. So yang people behavior will be depends on their parents and friends influence.
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Munther J
9/22/2012 11:37:31 am
it is not about the age but about the way everyone is raised up. Families should teach and encourage their children to be friendly, social, honest, and helpful. They should warn children of bad habits such as dishonesty, and selfishness. My family taught me how to be honest, brave, trustworthy, and wise. Being young has many advantages and disadvantages. Advantages are having alot of free time, having energy,and responsibility. Disadvantage is that adults will never trust you. To be older means responsible, working and take care of others. In my country eighteen is the age to have a driving license and to go to military. Retirment age is 63 for both men and women even though they have the right to ask for retirement when they are 50 or have been working for more than 25 years.
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Reza.L
9/22/2012 09:34:20 pm
We believe experience is very important, especially in life. Older family members have more experience than Youngers. Then Youngers should attention to their experience. Because Youngers need some important information about each levels of life. For example, friends’ relationship, engagement, weeding, best time for having baby, and many other things.
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JuanG
9/23/2012 05:17:25 am
Yes, I think young people is generally more selfish because they only want pleases them. The parents and grandparents have the obligation to teach young people to be helpful because I think is the right way in the world. My parents and grandparents teach me to be helpful to others. It makes me feel good. One of the things my members teach me and is useful to me is, always say the true and be honest. The disadvantage to being young is, you don’t have so many responsibilities only school if you are and you don’t think whit responsibility, and the opposite, advantage is, you look for your future and more stability and all ways. In May country to drive the age is supposal in eighteen years old for the military is the same age. In may country to retire from jobs, I’m not sure but I think, women is sixty years old and for men is sixty-five or seventy years old
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Nikita M
9/23/2012 06:34:39 am
Yes, I think some young people are generally more selfish than their parents and grandparents, but not everybody. Sometimes may be conversely. Depending how parents taught their children when they were young. Some people can be selfish all life. Some people never can be selfish. Usually children can be selfish, but parents teach them how to be helpful to other. We should to help people and next time people will help you. Get rights to drive or go to the military in my country you can of age 18 years. In the United States you can choice go to the military or not and in my country if you are not student and have good health you have to go in army. Almost everyman go to army.
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alireza k.
9/23/2012 07:49:42 am
I think it is common between young people to be selfish. First reason refers to hormonal changes in the young people. In the early ages hormones effects are very strong, it causes to change behave in the young people. Mostly, the young people are aggressive, selfish, and sensitive than their parents. It is not abnormal in the young people. Second reason for this problem is inexperience. Young people don’t like to listen their parent’s advice or experience; they like to have their own experience. Most the time they think, their parents don’t know about today, they think parents still live in the past time. I think this two-generation must keep their relationships, especially parents duty is very important to improve and to keep on this relationship. They can also, encourage their children to live together to transfer their experience. Especially in my life, I learn a lot of good things like, patient, honest, loyalty, and helping to other people.
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Judith C
9/23/2012 09:04:13 am
I would argue that no, because you can not determine this with the previous generation. Selfishness always existed, but that does not mean that the ancestors were more selfish or otherwise. Education has always been important to families, and selfishness has no part in it, and although this feeling exists, there will always be parents who teach and want their hij0s have better training, and can be good people and a better life because egoism, destroys the personality of the manifest and nobody will want to have your friendship.
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Olena K.
9/23/2012 11:37:42 am
In Ukraine, this is not the best time for the elderly. Most older people in need of the young. The country does not cover such costs as medical care, food, housing. Pension monthly payment is very low, it is not even enough to buy food. Older people do not want to hire. Therefore, those who live without the help of young, very misery. Families try to stay and live together. Young spend all the time at work, and the elderly can help young children to bring up. For older people there is not any advantage. It's very sad.
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Nelya M
9/23/2012 01:02:11 pm
I think young people are generally more selfish than their parents and grandparents.I think parents and grandparents should teach young people how to be helpful and kind to other.Some things my older family members taught me were to respect elders & to be very good in school.Some advantages in being young is you can still live your life,do good in school and be successful.Some disadvantages in being old is you cant play alot of sports,you cant be very active,and you cant really get a job.In my country people can start driving from 18 and men retired at 65 women at 60.
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Galina T.
9/23/2012 01:34:33 pm
I think young people are generally more selfish than their parents and grandparents. Of course their parents must teach young kids how to be helpful towards other. I remember how my parents taught me to be helpful to others. They taught me to share with other people, to listen, to not be proud, and to respect older people. The advantage of being young is having lots of strength and energy, but the disadvantage is not knowing too much about the world. The advantage of being old is to have learned many things, but the disadvantage is not being so strong to do those things. In my country young people can drive or go to the military at 18 years old. In my country men can retire from their jobs at 60 years old, but women at 55 years old.
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Marcos DR
9/23/2012 01:35:45 pm
I think that young people are more selfish than their parents now a days because it is very common that in the times that our grandparents were raised, they had to share everything with their siblings because families used to be bigger back in the day, so families had to manage with what they had and there was no opportunity for people to be selfish, everything had to be shared among the family members. Now families are smaller and usually each kid has his or her own stuff and kids tend to be more selfish, also I feel that the education that kids get at home now is a very low quality education because most parents work all day and they spend very little time with their kids so kids don’t learn proper manners. I was raised by my grandma in Dominican Republic and I feel that her teachings and her love taught me how to be a responsible man. In my country is ok to spank your kids when they are growing up and is part of the way adults teach their kids and Grandma had to do that a couple of times when my brothers and I got in trouble or disobeyed her. I am thankful that my grandma was there for us to teach us how not to be selfish and to always think about my family and how my decisions could affect them.
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larisa k
9/23/2012 02:03:45 pm
I think this days young people are more selfish.But I also think it depends how you been raised.Iv always respected my parents no matter how they are to me. In bible it says respect and listen to your parents.Now days young people can drive at an early age , get their driver license early.They become independed. Also have advantage to find a job and start leave on your own.Same thing going on in my native country .
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Alba G
9/23/2012 02:26:50 pm
I think that most of young people are not selfish. Some young people like to help other. Is important that the parent teach, honesty, generosity, help others. I like to see young people went help to cross the street and carrying other shopping bags, when I see these two things, I could tell that parent should them good manners. If all parents teach this tree easy thing the life is better. If the parent teach honesty. This wild show them see be honesty wherever they go and whatever they do.
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Svitlana K
9/23/2012 03:13:48 pm
Yes, I think young people must be generally because they have more free time. They must teach young people how to be helpful to others. My parents were teaching me to be polite for elders and help them. I think advantages youngsters have more energy, and opportunity then elders. The advantages of elders have more life experience, and grandkids but youngsters don’t have. In the Ukraine women take retirement at 60 years and men at 65 years. I very respect elders, and love to lessen them.
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Garcia, Judith N.
9/23/2012 03:51:32 pm
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Volodymyr Ulasevych
9/23/2012 04:20:25 pm
It's easy to claim that young people more selfish than their parents. But we also can see the old people worshiping to themselves, and the more they have, the more they want. And also old selfish people can be more painful for others because they have more possibilities for that, I think. But I can agree that generally young people more often can be selfish. With the years, the young people generally became more wise. What interesting, that this process repeats from generation to generation. We can see something similar in a height of young and old people. Generally young people higher than their parents, but people don't became higher from generation to generation. Generally people understood that it's not a good way to be selfish. I would notice that old people became more wise not just through their mistakes but also watching the young people behavior. Maybe that's why we usually claim that young people more selfish their old brothers.
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pari b
10/16/2012 08:16:06 am
Yes, I agree that the younger generation are generally more selfish then their parents and grandparents. When people are small and doesn’t have capabilities to do things on their own, at that time their parents and grandparents help them a lot by teaching them and helping them at every step but when the same parents grow old and the children become capable, they start avoiding their parents and grandparents.
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AMMAR J
10/17/2012 03:27:47 am
I don’t think that young people are generally more selfish than their parents and grandparents. The parents and grandparents they should teach their young people how to be helpful to others. the best things my older family members teach me That relied on myself, that I respect all people regardless of race and religion, I take responsibility for my family, and I help the poor and the orphan respected. In my country the legal age to get a DL is when he reaches age 18 years, whether a boy or a girl, Young people go to the army when they reach 18 years of a mandatory service for 3 years. People retire from their jobs in age 65. And it’s the same age for men and women
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Riaz Umsnai
9/2/2013 04:53:31 pm
Today’s the youngsters are little selfish as compare to their parents. Because they think more about their likes and dislikes, benefits. They want freedom in their life and want that nobody interfere in their life. On other hand parents are more concern with their children.
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Unknown:-)
11/28/2022 07:25:00 am
I think younger people see more selfish than the older. It can be caused by their surrounding .The older people have moree experience in their life compering to the younger ,as they know the world more how good or how bad it is,So it's the older duty to teach the younger how to be responsible for their task any always be honest with everyone any never lied to anybody and stop over pampering them this can cause the children to be more selfish.
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