Yes, I know that sounds like the sort of thing that an inflammatory writer for one of the worst tabloids would write, but listen to this:
Helen has just got a part-time job as a waitress in a local restaurant, and she was hired on the spot because she was the only applicant who was “mature“. The manager said she didn’t want anyone younger because they are “too rude and say ‘whatever’ all the time“. I see it as a terrible portent for the future if the service industries won’t hire younger people because it’s feared that they’ll be rude to the customers.
I know it isn’t all kids but this bodes ill, especially when we add onto it the culture of entitlement that has developed and that many parents seem to be unable to say “NO“ to little Jane or Johnny. The result will be that much of a generation will grow up to be workshy layabouts who lack the basic civilities that make living in a community tolerable. And then they will have kids too.
Seriously, who can we blame but the parents?
Cheers, Tom.