Millennials

     One thing that was mentioned in the talk about Millennials is "Entitled".
   
     From Google, Entitle means "believing oneself to be inherently deserving of privileges or special treatment." I strongly agree with the speaker that a huge number of Millennials have that issue.

     He mentioned that we were told "we can have anything just because we want." It is true. Nowadays, everybody is promoting the "encouraging education", personally I think it is good, but a huge amount of parents turned encouraging into spoil. It becomes saying things that are not true, becomes giving kids whatever they want etc, and that's where things went wrong. But thinking from another perspective I can definitely understand as parents, they probably have been through things like hungry, and they do not want that happen again on their kids. As a result, they do everything they can, to provide they child with the things they want, to say things they'd like to hear. After awhile, we, kids, think everything they have done for us is what we deserved, is how we should be treated, which further down caused laziness, selfishness and all other bad qualities older generations talked about.

     To myself, my parents gave me freedom to choose what I do, there were some sort of "spoiling", but not too much. Since there is not really much households are doing that, personally I think this kind of parenting strategy is risky, is like gambling. Once children have freedom, they may easily be guided to a wrong path, like drug, smoking etc. Luckily, so far I think my parents are not losing "money". I adore the freedom that they gave me, this really trained me and made me more mature, built me a more responsible and considerable person.

     There is NO FAILED PARENTING strategy. Every parents had no experience before having the first baby, they are learning while raising the kids. The thing that can truly affect an generation, is the generation themselves, it's us.

     The wrong "corporate environment" and the elderly were mentioned during the talk, which "only care about the numbers and do not really know what to do". That is real life, that is what real society looks like. For most cases, the parents are not always there to help you, people do not really forgive your mistakes when you truly messed up... I like the "corporate environment", which I think could really train ourselves to adopt all the challenges and high pressure.

     The problem is not really with the environment or the parents, the problem is transition. Most Millennials are NOT ABLE TO adopt the new environment and crucial society that fast. Because of the extremely short transition from wonderful school to real society, that makes a lot of Millennials become the ones older generations always talk about. Older generations are not really failing us, neither do we. Millennials, our generation in general, may just need a little bit more time, plus a little bit more patience, to truly get involved, get adopted to the society.