The generation y is goal oriented, disciplined, self motivated. But is it really empathetic?
Have you ever tried explaining your problems to your kids or tried telling them what they are asking is not possible because such and such difficulty is there? The standard response is "Do I care?". You feel hurt. You feel your kids are so much selfish. And you feel helpless in front of it.
Is this selfishness and self centeredness, the magnification of our selfishness? Did our kids learn from watching us? May be. We have seen our parents and grand parents caring for the entire extended family. But for us, definition of family has shrunken to include only us, our spouses and our kids. We never bothered much about our uncle or our mother's third cousin. Is it one of the reasons for extreme self centeredness in our children?
Or the way we provide them with easy life without any responsibilities is making them unsympathetic towards others?
Sometimes we might have even encouraged their apathy. We might have felt that our careers did not prospect as much as expected because we did not know how to say no. So we might have mentioned that emotions do not help anyone.
Look at Aliaster Periera. His drunken driving caused death of seven people. And he might be just out of college at the time of the event. Is he the culmination of this generation I?
Have you ever tried explaining your problems to your kids or tried telling them what they are asking is not possible because such and such difficulty is there? The standard response is "Do I care?". You feel hurt. You feel your kids are so much selfish. And you feel helpless in front of it.
Is this selfishness and self centeredness, the magnification of our selfishness? Did our kids learn from watching us? May be. We have seen our parents and grand parents caring for the entire extended family. But for us, definition of family has shrunken to include only us, our spouses and our kids. We never bothered much about our uncle or our mother's third cousin. Is it one of the reasons for extreme self centeredness in our children?
Or the way we provide them with easy life without any responsibilities is making them unsympathetic towards others?
Sometimes we might have even encouraged their apathy. We might have felt that our careers did not prospect as much as expected because we did not know how to say no. So we might have mentioned that emotions do not help anyone.
Look at Aliaster Periera. His drunken driving caused death of seven people. And he might be just out of college at the time of the event. Is he the culmination of this generation I?
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