Humility in Youth

Humility in Youth [+ favourites]

I don't know when I learned this... perhaps it was facing hardships in life that I had no control over.

But nowadays, although I fight to be confident, I also become aware of my limitations and/or lack of experience and try to give people older than me the benefit of the doubt (or at least respect that they may have experienced things I haven't) and respect to hold the opinions they have.

This is different than dissagreeing though...

Why is it that young women want to be perceived as confident and sexy (hence the successful woman) and young boys want to be gangsterish and smart (hence the strong provider)?

Should they be taught to accept their age, aspire to be more intelligent before they assume the characteristics of knowing everything?

And if so... how do we accomplish that? Encourage parents to beat their kids a little more?

"Hating everyone protects me from elitism."

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how do we accomplish that? Encourage parents to beat their kids a little more?

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"Speak out, even if what you have to say is unpopular"

thats a hard question, i work with children and some of them have absolutely no respect for adults,and i mean none,some of these kids do need to be phisicaly disaplined, I think it would help in some cases.....children today think that they know everything by the time they're ten and obviously thats not true.......
something else i find,expecially with girls, they dont strive to be smart,they want to be ditsy or at least not as bright as the boys , they seem to think thats the way they should be and that boys will like them more if they arent as intelligent.....where the hell did this come from......who's teaching this to children and why the hell are we dumbing down our culture as a whole??????

"we are the music makers, and we, are the dreamers of dreams"

Parents have gone soft. In the old days if a child cursed at school he or she would get whipped on the arm. Now that's considered abuse and personally I think it's phychological effects of obedience have negative effects. Your forced to obey the thoughts of the teachers for the sole reason that if you don't you'll get whipped. In my opinion parents need to be more creative with their punishment techniques.

"I love to see people struggling for their purpose in life..."

if there is such a thing as sin some of us commit it backwards following our forefathers footsteps
and some of us commit it foreward by overrulling our children

"dont got one"

i think the main problems with kids, me included, is that we don't really have good role models. once i found a decent teacher that would actually listend, i started respecting adults more. but then i realized that adults can not be classified as 'adults', they are people. so i now take eery person, regardless of their age, and give them the benefit of the doubt untill they show me evidence that they are in fact ass holes.

"Wht cry for those that often cry? Instead, help them smile, and smile for those that smile."

I had the same sort of attitude last year. It's your last year of highschool and you feel like your being treated as a child. This in turn makes you angry at parents, teachers and adults. But, after highschool is over you'll discover that you have opportunity and choices. This to me seems a little over whelming at times. It's the center of all small talk. What do you want to do? What are you doing now? I can only answer as unsure.

"I love to see people struggling for their purpose in life..."

Decius i'm afraid that i see "no" difference in the younger population and the older. Look at the typical american family. Better looking than husband and very unappreciated mom who sits at home and reads romance novels and watches soap operas and gossips with her girlfriends. Husband who does his work during the day, probably (if possible) has a girl at his work that he flirts with or at least crushes on secretly. Goes home to his wife which he is generally unsatisfied with whom he expects to have food ready for him then watches some type of sport where two groups of men compete and whoever is the most physically fit and capable wins. Then after drinking a few beers goes to sleep and starts it all over again. Might have went a bit off topic but my point is is that it's not a problem with the way we're teaching our kids to act. It's a problem with the society as a whole. Kids see how their parents are and mimmick that. True it's better to teach things while kids are young, but you can teach something over and over then a child is going to go home and see what i've explained, well that is life to them and that is what htey are going to truly learn.

"Everyone is anyone at anytime."

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Kids see how their parents are and mimmick that.

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"Wht cry for those that often cry? Instead, help them smile, and smile for those that smile."

Kids will always mimick or react to how their parents are. It takes a special kind of person to reject their qualities.

I guess I really dont know many parents of teenagers now. I don't know many parents of many people. You could be right.

"Hating everyone protects me from elitism."