... Manziel's so called agent is also 20 years old http://espn.go.com/blog/ncfnation/post/_/id/80511/thompson-uncle-nate-smarter-than-ncaa
Complimenting a remark I made in another thread, today's 20 year olds are not the 20 year olds of 2000, and the year 2000's 20 year olds are not the twenty year olds of 1985. This trend goes back many decades. Children are more sheltered now. More shielded. More coddled and enabled. They are not nearly as ready for the world as they used to be.
With age comes perspective. But yeah, memories tend to be kind. We don't tend to really remember the bad stuff as much.
So how does being a know-it-all asshat make him smarter than the NCAA according to ESPN? On second thought, never mind.
I'm only 33. I remember when I was twenty quite well. Things haven't changed much since then. My generation, and I include myself in that, were stupid and reckless. We ruined our credit before we even knew what credit really was. We voted for people based on their pop-culture references and whether or not they were cool with weed. We fked anything that moved, abandoned the children we didn't want, and married people we never should have considered marrying, only to divorce them when we got tired of them. We entered into other types of contracts, like cellphones and pagers (yes, pagers) and then stopped paying the bill when we spent too much money having fun and got a couple months behind. We bought houses we couldn't afford. We quit jobs just because we didn't like them. In short, we played a gigantic role in the downturn of America, and all because we simply weren't ready to handle the responsibility of being an adult. Of course, this doesn't include every single person, but surely enough to say that it is a trend. Our fathers and forefathers didn't have these problems. They knew how to save, how to weather storms, how to make responsible decisions. They were the backbone of what made America great. They just didn't pass that knowledge on.
True. That was me. But what did my grandfather do to get through to my Dad that my Dad didn't with me? Is it the greater level of distraction that we were subject to, which is even exponentially worse today?
Exactly. That is why continuing to coddle, enable, and excuse them and offer no consequences for bad behavior will exacerbate this sorry trend. If we are going to legally consider them to be adults at 18, then they must accept the responsibility right then. Parents who don't prepare them for this will have children on their hands until they are 30.
