So to start off this little ditty I must confess that I am a bit of a news junkie. No, I don’t watch the news. That crap is too depressing and there always seems to be some nasty story that I wish I could turn time back and never hear, so I don’t watch. I like world news, my way. I read the Globe and Mail online. Mostly just the headlines. If a headline interests me, I might give the article some of my time (maybe – obviously it has to be well written and have a catchy first couple of lines or I’m history). It’s a time effective way of figuring out what is going on in the world without all those nasty details. Honestly, the blogs I read have a way of letting me know exactly what is going on in the world anyway so I’m good.
This leads to my blog title and my adventure with the Globe and Mail today. The past few days, or couple weeks to be honest, I have had the phase “Your sense of entitlement is astounding” popping up in my head. Over and over. In various forms. So as I do my daily headline scan today I see this: “Are today’s youth worse off or just lazy and entitled”. Holy coincidence Batman! This I gotta read! Click on said article and low and behold it’s not a well written, fact filled article - The Globe and Mail want public opinion on this timely topic. Where do I start? Should I begin with the epic levels of lazy that abound in the House of Sand and Dirt? Please! If someone had told me how lazy teenagers are I would have reconsidered children and just gotten another cat! Entitled? Oh let me count the ways! I am beginning to think this generation of young people should be called the “you owe me” generation.
So within a few minutes I had my outline mentally prepared for my submission to the Globe and Mail. As the morning progressed I realized that I was now moving into the small, bitter novel category. Hmmm. Should I just send them proof quoting some of the verbal, entitlement outbursts that I have witnessed in the last few years? Should I start a study for the paper titled “Just what do you think you’re entitled to” and use 200 teenagers and their parents from various demographic areas as lab rats? Should I just send them a copy of my post from April 24th? Then I realize that writing a novel to the news may provide a nice, anonymous stress release for all the Entitlementism (yes, I made that up) I deal with on a daily basis however I am not completely “head in the sand” not to point out that there is a very huge, don’t want to admit it, let alone say it out loud, chance that we as parents are completely to blame for raising these “gonna pitch a hissy fit if I don’t get what I want” youth and I can’t stomach that chapter. Just can’t do it.
