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      • Youth are losing ground with academics, and they are bullied, anxious and lack coping skills. Statistically, most people are parents and most parents work, so concern about kids translates into broad numbers of people (think: employees and co-workers) who may be distracted or worried—for good reason.
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  2. May 17, 2016 · Labeled and skewered by Tom Wolfe as the occupants of the first “Me Decade” our huge demographic bulge has fascinated and terrified for decades. We came of age in the 1960s and early 1970s ...

  3. Nov 8, 2021 · What’s the matter with kids today? Education scholars debunk myth that young people today are lazier, more immature than prior generations. Liz Mineo. Harvard Staff Writer. November 8, 2021 long read. “What has changed is that youth are reaching the markers of adulthood later,” says Nancy Hill, Charles Bigelow Professor of Education.

  4. Jun 2, 2018 · A new book argues that children are less disciplined than ever. Author Katherine Reynolds Lewis identifies several culprits and says there are several things parents, teachers and caregivers can...

  5. Oct 20, 2017 · Todays teenagers are no different—and they’re the first generation whose lives are saturated by mobile technology and social media. In her new book, psychologist Jean Twenge uses large-scale surveys to draw a detailed portrait of ten qualities that make todays teens unique and the cultural forces shaping them.

  6. Oct 16, 2019 · We find that perceptions of a decline in todays youth can be experimentally manipulated by altering peoples memories of themselves as children. Although the cognitive mechanisms that unfairly impugn children today are likely to persist for millennia to come, knowledge of their sources may minimize unwarranted gloom about future generations.

    • John Protzko, Jonathan W. Schooler
    • 2019
  7. Feb 23, 2022 · Millennials and Gen Z are particularly maligned as self-obsessed and lazy (Credit: Getty Images) Allsopp’s words were the latest in a string of high-profile remarks about how young people today...

  8. Apr 25, 2018 · Research has found that kids today have a sharply decreased ability to regulate their own emotions and higher rates of distractibility and symptoms of depression. Reynolds discusses why that is, and what parents can do to help their kids and themselves. Featured in this Show. Why Kids' Bad Behavior Isn't All Bad News.