>Date: Wed, 08 Dec 1999 13:22:03 -0500
>To: Vicky Love <[log in to unmask]>
>From: MELINDA DUKES <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Re: [UTCSTAFF] Today's teens
>
>All points here are truly valid.  It seems our views and perceptions of a
great many things have already been formed due to our own individual
experiences in life. Because of my experiences and exposure to others
experiences, my opinion is formed.  My opinion is that children or teens
are "more" disrespectful when it happens to us.  Children face more
opinions openly than they did when I grew up- Thankful for freedom of
speech? (They have been exposed to more) They have more decisions to make.
I blamed my parents as well.  It was their fault that I was sheltered and
unknowledgeable of certain things.  There comes a time when we must all
"grow up" and not worry about who's fault it is, but make the choice to be
someone who does something about it.
>
>At 12:08 PM 12/8/99 -0500, you wrote:
>>Becoming aware of my character defects leads me to the next step--blaming my
>>parents. :)  - Vicky Love (from an unidentified source!)
>>
>>
>>At 11:26 AM 12/8/1999 -0500, Steven Bird wrote:
>>>Notwithstanding P.K. Geevarghese's possibly valid observation (in some
>>>people's opinion), I do believe that the real message here is that the more
>>>things change, the more they stay the same.  ;-)
>>>
>>>Steve Bird
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>At 12:38 PM 12/7/99 -0500, P.K. Geevarghese wrote:
>>>
>>>>Socrates did not know what we know now.  You and I and their parents made
>>>>them the way they are today.  Don't blame the young alone but 99% of the
>>>>blame goes to others like us and their parents.  Let's treat them better
>>>>and they will become better!  Dr. Geevarghese.
>>>>
>>>>On Mon, 6 Dec 1999, Oralia Preble-Niemi wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>      "Youth today love luxury.  They have bad manners, contempt for
>>>>> authority, no respect for older people, and talk nonsense when they
should
>>>>> be working.  Young people do not stand up any longer when adults
enter the
>>>>> room.  They contradict their parents, talk too much in company, guzzle
>>>>> their food, lay their legs on the table and tyrannize their elders."
>>>>>
>>>>> who wrote this????  Scroll down for the answer. . . .
>>>>>  ..............
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Socrates, indicting the youth of athens, greece, circa 500 B.C.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> **************************************
>>>>> Oralia Preble-Niemi,Ph.D.
>>>>> Professor and Head
>>>>> Foreign Languages & Literatures
>>>>> University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
>>>>> Chattanooga, TN  37403
>>>>> ***************************************
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>----------------------------------------
>>>Dr. Steven Bird
>>>Director of Orchestras
>>>University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
>>>
>>