Every time I hear someone complain that younger generations don’t have the attention span for reading anymore I invite them to actually compare popular youth fiction of the 21st Century to the popular youth fiction of yesteryear.
The average Nancy Drew novel clocks in well short of 200 pages. Each of the last four Harry Potter novels is over 600 pages.
I DONT UNDERSTAND
Where is the part about it being millenial’s fault?
I nearly spluttered my sandwich all over the screen at that headline. And then I had to read it to my Millennial cubicle-mate who said “Well aren’t they?”
Conversely the amount of fanfic being written (regardless of quality) is also pretty high.
Older people actually saw Walter Cronkite in action and are hoping for his second coming?
Millennials are killing unfair generalizations
Nah, our generation is only adept at destroying ourselves. And some of us aren’t even good at that. Slackers, that’s us!
Never mind us. We’re used to being ignored.
At least somebody appreciates us. Even if it’s only ourselves.
I won’t lie, that was the mental image I had when I wrote my comment, but I don’t think it’s literally true.
I’m too lazy and cynical to be a slacker.
The good news is that educators can end the tiresome debates over phonics vs. sounding-it-out when teaching reading that dominated education policy in the USA for just about all of the 70s-90s. Simply separating written language from its spoken form altogether seems to have done the trick. That and the heightened rewards.
My mom seems to be getting all her news from anonymous email chain mails.
So, what else is new?
The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers. – Socrates (469–399 B.C.)
Your pic attempts to explain the problem, but fundamentally misses the mark. We were the first generation that wholesale had both parents in the workplace, were latchkey (a term coined to describe us), and had a >50% divorce rate (up from fuck all during their generation.) The boomers DID NOT raise us. They institutionalized us to get rid of us rather than raising us. We raised ourselves. Any criticism of us from them is particularly galling, but that is par for the course for the Me Generation, a term their elders (in their wisdom)–not us–saw fit to bestow upon them. Therefore
does not apply.
Speak for yourself, please; my mother and my Gram raised me, the best they could with whatever means they had at their disposal.
Good day.
Looks like I need to buy another Rosetta Stone.
“The term seems to first appear in a CBC radio program called “Discussion Club – Topic: How War Affects Canadian Children” in 1942”
Wikipedia
mea culpa. were you a latch-key?
This is sure to change now that we’re in the era of the post millennial generation.
