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Every generation has criticisms and concerns about the generation that followed. “What scares you the most about the next generation?” a Reddit user asked.
Here are their comments, along with some BuzzFeed Community members’ answers about the most concerning patterns among “kids these days.”
1. “I’m concerned about smartphone addiction since I’m a teacher. Teens in class: concentrating on their phones with their heads down.
Head down, teens at the bus stop. Head down when biking, walking, or crossing the street. It depresses me.
2. “They are unable to use a computer. They are unable to perform anything of value, although they can browse the web.
Many of my kids struggle more than my parents do with basic tasks like knowing the file path or attaching papers to emails.
3. “People’s attention spans are so short these days. Even if they tried, a lot of young kids couldn’t sit through a book.
4. “As a high school nurse, I see that kids are impatient. They assume everything will happen right now. They don’t realize that there are no quick fixes for problems.
They believe I’m insane, for instance, since I want them to rest on ice for 10 minutes due to an injury.
5. “They are unable to focus: brain rot, meme culture, short-form content has caused everyone to develop the attention span of a goldfish.”
6. “Gen Alpha, I educate small children. Many of them are incapable of enduring a task without collapsing.
And it’s not like, ‘I’ve had a bad day, and this is the last straw, so I’m sobbing because I can’t find my notepad.’
“I am crying because I cannot find my notebook, and no one is coming to my aid, even though I would find it if I searched my desk for more than five seconds.”
“It’s mostly the result of poor parenting. It goes beyond TikTok and iPads. Before a child is ever faced with an issue, many parents will intervene and solve it for them, preventing them from developing problem-solving skills.
They don’t want to do anything that requires more than a minute of thought, and they want me to give them solutions.
Additionally, they don’t reprimand their children and provide justifications for their actions (last week, I had a parent attempt to clarify that the issue isn’t that their daughter talks in class, but rather that other children are chatting with her when she speaks to them).
These children won’t be able to succeed in any line of work that requires them to do anything other than what they want to do and requires no effort on their part.
7. “The manner in which they are always looking to other people for approval. No one is appreciating the people and places.
They encounter because they are too busy capturing photos for their social media accounts. Most individuals are addicted to attention and will stop at nothing to get it.
8. “The blatant lack of knowledge. A lot of people don’t read books. Their vocabulary is small. I seldom talk to people who seem to be critical thinkers.
Instead of being taught to think and analyze, they are brought up to take exams and absorb information. It’s frightening.
9. “They don’t understand anything about money at all. Moreover, they have no ambition at all. They are not interested in learning work skills that will benefit them later on.
When this generation learns how hard their parents work and how much it costs to live in their hometowns, they will be astounded.
10. “They lack writing skills. They are unable to punctuate. It is continuous, with one phrase after another.
11. “How young people nowadays post everything on social media. As a baby boomer, I am really thankful that no one has documented my childish conduct.
If I had lived in online in the past, I doubt I would have had the life I have now. All young people should have the choice since I was a fool.
I suffered because of my mistakes, but when I had moved on from certain people and locations, that anguish completely went into my brain; no one realized.
What a fool I had been (and trust me, I thought of a lot of new and fascinating mistakes to do). I was given the opportunity to start again. It’s a shame and a social issue that today’s children aren’t.
12. “Their conceit and frequent abuse of catchphrases they learned from YouTube therapy sessions.” They were ‘traumatized’ after that last math lesson, for instance. It’s concerning.
13. “They have no reading comprehension skills. There are several accounts of upper middle school instructors working with students.
Who are unable to identify the subject of a straightforward passage or identify the main character of an elementary-level paragraph tale.
“It truly worries me that some of these ‘COVID babies’ who lost important school years will be voting according to what others tell them to believe because they lack the mental capacity to do independent research.”