Old folks like me, what's a message you'd like to address to the Millenials? ~

Liberal politicians are not raising your children, you are.  Stop blaming everything on government and start to parent your kids.  They me be the center of your universe, but they need to understand that they aren't the center of THE universe.

Well said.

It's interesting that as a millennial who has worked in a job dealing with customers, whenever I came across entitled customers who felt the rules shouldn't apply to them, they were always middle-aged or older. The younger customers were generally more polite and understanding. So while I'm not denying officegirl's experiences, it's been the complete opposite experience in my case (which leads me to believe that no generation is significantly more "entitled" than any other. My dad said that when he was my age, the older generation accused his generation (he is a Boomer) of being "entitled". 

I don't believe in tarring an entire group of people with the same broad brush.  I'm a boomer and I don't feel I'm entitled to anything more than what I've worked for myself.  Age does not automatically confer respect or a slacking of the rules.  I am however, disposed to giving up my seat to someone who clearly is older than I am or seems physically fragile.  I will also hold the door for those same people. 

The one thing I have observed for YEARS is how many older people don't think they need to obey simple traffic laws and etiquette.  I am actually blown away when I see one use a darn turn signal.  

Other than that, I really try not to broad brush anyone.  LOL

Well as you would expect I find I disagree. While it's very true that we, as parents have responsibility and ultimately we are the ones who raise kids... but we have to remember too that these are very different times and our kids are exposed to so many more influences now than they were when we were raised and so parents don't have the sole input so we really cannot hold parents responsible for this sense of entitlement that young people really DO seem to have, (UK and US) Put it this way. IF it were all down to parents then this would affect some young people.. but the thing is its widescale, UK and US ... so that tells us its not individual parents, or even some parents.. there's something else at play. And lets  face it there really IS a lot less power now for parents in raising their kids.. we are more limited in many ways... and that bit IS government.. not necessarily liberal just successive governments 

I have several nieces and nephews in that age group and I can assure you, none of them feel entitled.

Very true. Actually I never had children of my own to parent and although I have done a little with my stepdaughters they have a mother and a functioning one. 

Which I think is a function of how much they like and respect you.  Which sometimes my adult stepdaughters have but mostly my life is meaningless to young people who I guess find nothing to admire or emulate. And I so seldom encounter any in my daily life its like though we live in the same world we occupy different parts of it. I know nothing of current trends or technology which I guess I am not interested in.  Speaking as a middle boomer.  And I'm thinking perhaps some "rules" we have just forgotten to obey while others we have learned we don't have to. Just the other day I was pulled over and given a warning by a police officer for not coming to a full stop while driving before making a turn.  Now that turn I make multiple times per day and have for years. So I got into bad habits through familiar usage. 

  What are you talking about " than I have had"?  How or why would you assume that either of us knows each other's lives well enough to determine which one has more life experience?
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