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Were any of us ready for the challenges that were ahead of us as kids? Who is ready? Sure we can prepare, study, get ourselves fit but that doesn't mean we're ready. It means we're prepared. Big difference.

The youths of today get a bad rap. Born of the Generation Y, these kids today are given no credit for what they have and might possibly achieve. Lack of respect. Doesn't listen to authority. Aren't as smart as kids from years ago. We were so much better prepared than the youth of today. We wanted to learn. We listened to our parents and other authority figures.

I'm sick of hearing Generation Y is to blame for all the world's ills. How they aren't prepared. How they won't be ready to tackle the world's problems. Blah, blah, blah.
Apparently 20 years and longer ago, every kid, every adolescent listened to their parents, respected their elders, and always obeyed authority figures like police officers. Except of course when they were busy protesting a war by smoking bricks of marijuana, cutting classes, growing their hair out, ignoring their parents, and having unprotected sex while tripping on LSD did they not listen. And how much smarter were the kids of a generation or two ago? They were learning, really learning. They were learning about the imminent threat of nuclear war with Cuba and how to protect themselves in the event of nuclear fallout(head to the hallways of your school, put your head between your legs and cover your head with your arms, feel free to kiss your rear end goodbye at that point). Years ago TB was still killing 5 percent of the nation! We hadn't been to the moon yet. Today we're in conversations about the moons of Jupiter. We're so bored with our moon we've had to move on to other planets! Spousal abuse and alcohol abuse were alive and well. And these burnt out, mental abused, under educated hippies turned into our parents. Just like the racist, ignorant, hardly literate parents before them. If we aren't ready for the challenges let's put the blame firmly on the petrulli soaked shoulders of our hippie parents, poodle skirt wearing communist hating grandparents, and our ragged, un-American great grandparents.

Kids burnt draft cards. They experimented with illegal and illicit drugs. They drank. They drove. Teenagers got pregnant and teenagers ran away from home. What was being learned in science class would get you laughed out of school.

Kids of today are learning complex mathematics. Cutting

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