sorry

New York City NY

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I want to apologize for my generation (We fd up) Born after WW2, a member of the "Baby Boomer" generation. My generation is the off-spring of the men and women who fought in World-War 2. My Dad and his buddies kicked ass on Hitler's army and saved the world. They are called the "Greatest Generation" and that is absolutely true. People in my parent's generation were TOUGH, SMART, BRAVE, you name it. My parent's generation was full of amazing individuals. BUT.....then things fell apart. I was born after WW2, when things were a lot easier. -- Life was good back then, growing up in the 1950's, 60's and 70's We had it easy. TOO easy. I never had to fight in a war. I never had to sacrifice, scrimp and save like my parents did. I, and my generation became SOFT and SPOILED..... Life was too easy. My generation came up with some crazy ideas, like NOT spanking our children, when they did something wrong. We even went so far as to try to criminalize spanking, calling it' child abuse', when it's really not. Sometimes spanking is absolutely necessary. My generation developed TV, video games and other distractions for our kids, making them lazy, instead of going outside for fresh air and exercise. We developed bicycles that you don't even need to pedal. My generation eliminated "Hands-On" trade-school classes, like auto shop, welding, woodworking, etc. All in the name of making life "easier" for our kids. My generation had it easy, but we wanted to make life even easier for our kids, because we thought that was the right thing to do. Boy, were we wrong !!! We made life WAY TOO EASY. We were SOFT, and we raised a generation of even more soft, spoiled, whiny, demanding kids. We have raised a generation of kids that have no idea how to survive on their own. They simply don't have the skills or knowledge. A generation of victims, who think every bad thing that happens in their life is someone else's fault. A younger generation that feels 'offended' at literally everything. A generation of kids who will never grow up; many of them will live under their parent's roof until age 40 and beyond. My father showed me the door at age 18...... My own son didn't move out until he was 24. And it was MY FAULT for letting him stay so long. We made it OK for our kids to do that, by not being tough enough or involved enough in their lives. We didn't care enough, because MY generation grew up spoiled and selfish, so we made our kids even more so. My generation, the Baby-Boomer generation, RUINED our kids. And in turn, we have ruined America over the last 50 years. And now, at this age, I have seen my spoiled rotten children grow up to spoil their own kids even more. I just wanted to tell all of you, I am truly, deeply sorry for that. Hard work, discipline and self-reliance have all gone out the window. We are seeing the results of our neglect, laziness and stupidity right now. I'm hopeful that future generations will go back to being a little tougher, smarter and more self-reliant, but things are not looking good. And I'm truly sorry for that.\