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<blockquote data-quote="KTMom91" data-source="post: 240285" data-attributes="member: 4040"><p>I guess I'm in the club as well.</p><p></p><p>I agree with Linda...that the lack of accountability and empathy is the underlying problem. I was talking to a friend about this recently, and I have some ideas on the subject.</p><p></p><p>Now, I'm generalizing here, so please, no one take offense. My generation was raised by parents who were schooled to "do their own thing." We were encouraged to be individuals and stand out, and conformity was seen as a negative. We had no unifying tragedy to bring our age group together; I was a year old when JFK was assassinated. Vietnam wasn't even on our radar; we were in elementary school. Programs came into our schools to build our self-esteem and tell us how great we were. Things like bad grades or misbehavior were glossed over, so we wouldn't feel badly about ourselves. </p><p></p><p>We had no one to be accountable to; we were individuals glorying in our individuality. We had no reason to learn empathy; there was nothing bad happening. Some of us learned these skills through tragedies in our lives; others continued through their lives thinking they were above all that, and their children learned the lack of accountability and empathy from their parents. </p><p></p><p>I think I'm done now.</p><p></p><p>Anyway, just my two cents.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="KTMom91, post: 240285, member: 4040"] I guess I'm in the club as well. I agree with Linda...that the lack of accountability and empathy is the underlying problem. I was talking to a friend about this recently, and I have some ideas on the subject. Now, I'm generalizing here, so please, no one take offense. My generation was raised by parents who were schooled to "do their own thing." We were encouraged to be individuals and stand out, and conformity was seen as a negative. We had no unifying tragedy to bring our age group together; I was a year old when JFK was assassinated. Vietnam wasn't even on our radar; we were in elementary school. Programs came into our schools to build our self-esteem and tell us how great we were. Things like bad grades or misbehavior were glossed over, so we wouldn't feel badly about ourselves. We had no one to be accountable to; we were individuals glorying in our individuality. We had no reason to learn empathy; there was nothing bad happening. Some of us learned these skills through tragedies in our lives; others continued through their lives thinking they were above all that, and their children learned the lack of accountability and empathy from their parents. I think I'm done now. Anyway, just my two cents. [/QUOTE]
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