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[lph]

As rebeccaC pointed out, older people have always felt that younger people have too little respect for their elders. But I do think that in general young people today have less respect for authorities than before, and in many ways that's a good thing. I have a 17 year old. My impression is that this is a generation who not only feel that they have the right to stand up and be heard, but also actually know how to do so. They're vocal, used to standing in front of the class and presenting topics, they have political views that they're not afraid to discuss with adults, and they know waaaay more about the complicated world they live in than I did at 17. I'm not saying it's ok to be rude, or to think one is the center of the universe, just that being aware, vocal and ready to stand for what you believe in are good things, in a world where huge corporations spend enormous amounts of money to subtly change your opinions and actions to their benefit.
I don't doubt that this is a group that it's much more challenging to be a teacher for. I could never be one, I find it challenging enough to be a parent. But all in all I'm very impressed by teenagers today.

[Crankin]

Oak, I can't really correlate the onset of allergies with riding or other outside stuff. It just makes it worse! It always starts with me waking up feeling like I've just been run over. I have a long history of this, it's just running in shorter cycles since the end of the summer.
I'll be honest, I don't think I can go out with a mask, Ebola has nothing to do with it!
I have to go to work, it's my day to go the high school. How did I ever go to work at 6:30 AM for 30 years?????

[shootingstar]

I don't doubt that this is a group that it's much more challenging to be a teacher for. I could never be one, I find it challenging enough to be a parent. But all in all I'm very impressed by teenagers today.

Agree. But probably a mixed bag of stuff.
What is very disturbing is some strange/violent/inappropriate Internet information which children can access far more easily than we ever could in the non-Internet world. That alone can make parenting harder in terms of external influences.

By the way, I've just signed for a pilot course that our organization is offering on working with millenials in the workplace. I'm curious how they plan to handle the course content..! To me, it's just nearly as awkward as a course on working in a diverse cross-cultural workplace (another course which I didn't sign up). They are pilot..for obvious reasons: tendency to pigeonhole people in certain groups according to perceived behaviours, etc.



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[PamNY]

Fellow cyclists on a bike ride today:

"You doing halloween candy this year?"

"Nope. Don't have any to give out. I ate it all."

And he was serious!

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Maybe you had to be there, but that was funny.

Sounds like my kind of guy.

[rebeccaC]

Skittles???????

now if I'm going to eat it all before.....a tin of La Maison du Chocolat Tobago's ….individually wrapped squares of milk and dark chocolate.

[Pax]

Drooooool!

[OakLeaf]

He obviously didn't buy enough candy to begin with!

When I lived in town, a few churches bussed the rural kids into our neighborhood for trick-or-treat. It was a working poor neighborhood where they knew people would be generous. We'd go through 20 bags of candy and have to turn our porch light off before trick-or-treat hours ended!

I can totally eat a movie-sized bag of Skittles before the closing credits roll....

[Catrin]

Crankin - I hope you can find a resolution to your problem, that would be quite frustrating! Have you added anything new to your diet since summer, or perhaps changed the frequency of something you used to only eat occasionally? I've noted that food sensitivities can present in rather unexpected ways that may not appear to be food-related at all. Wishing you the best on figuring this out.

Looking back to my own teenage years - the only way that I can see that things have changed for the current teens is their over-exposure to social media and highly inappropriate internet content exposure. To be fair, I was a wild child that couldn't stay out of trouble with the juvenile authorities - so my perspective might differ from some. All of that being said, it WAS the early 70's when I got their attention and frankly, back then, the behaviors that got us in trouble were far milder than the kind of trouble teens get into these days. Sadly there are all of those bad examples in social media and the internet to give them ideas

Oakleaf, it sounds like those rural kids had fun! I've lived in apartments for years now, and there isn't any trick-or-treating there. At least not in anywhere I've lived, though there may have been something at the clubhouse if there was on.

[Crankin]

Catrin, I can't think of any egregious changes I've made in my diet. I hardly eat dairy, just plain Greek yogurt and a little cheese and very high quality whole wheat or spelt breads, in small amounts. I know it in my stomach, if I've had too much dairy. I'm going to track the pattern, because there is one... I am wondering if there's something in my office,
Ack, I was wild as hell as a teen and I don't regret a minute of it. I wasn't rude, though, and school was always a priority. So, for someone who spent a few years hanging out on the Boston Common and in Coconut Grove in Miami, doing lots of bad stuff, and protesting everything, I think my attitude is different. All of my friends did the same and they are all very successful professionals. I do think social media has added in something bad to the mix, though. I am just glad both of my kids seem to take an old person's view of all of this stuff. My older son got his Facebook hacked and had shut it down over a year ago. He had like 400 friends and it has impacted his connections to some people. My younger son got on after he got out of the Marines. He never posts anything, but he does have "friends." I talk to him on Messenger sometimes. They both think Twitter and Instagram are stupid, which for 32 and 29 year olds is interesting.

[Pax]

Soooo, anyone from San Francisco? My honey has to go to the ALA annual conference next summer in San Francisco, we chatted about it and decided I'd go along. Never been there and always wanted to... then I find out we'll be there for PRIDE! Seems like it will be a fun time!

[rebeccaC]

Soooo, anyone from San Francisco? My honey has to go to the ALA annual conference next summer in San Francisco, we chatted about it and decided I'd go along. Never been there and always wanted to... then I find out we'll be there for PRIDE! Seems like it will be a fun time!

Pride has been a great weekend longer than I’ve been alive …..a wonderful Saturday festival and of course the parade on Sunday! You should have a great time!!!

Luv San Fran…..the Lexington and El Rio Clubs in the Mission district. The Women’s Building, for a great sense of the community, also in the Mission. Watching the Bay Area Derby Girls!!!!, GREAT dim sum and other restaurants like Radish, Gracias Madre, Arizmendi bakery and pizzeria and the Off the Grid food trucks……and more and more and more

leaving for a weekend of riding, rock climbing and bouldering in Josuha Tree..Yay!!!!

[Pax]

LOL Rebecca, I went to my first Pride the year I came out, 1978, it was a revelation. the SF Pride is like Mecca, so I'm thrilled I'll get to see it. That, and I want to see a redwood.

[lph]

Muirenn, it's a rite of passage. You are now a certified Bike Commuter. Welcome :-D
(A good tip is to always keep a ratty pair plus bra, you know, the ones you're on the brink of throwing away, permanently at work, for that day in the future when you will forget again...)

[Pax]

Life is simpler when you live commando. I ditched panties back in 1974 when I was on swim team and lifeguarding after school, too many "issues" with being in a wet nylon suit that many hours a day. Any time I have to wear them now I feel like I'm wearing a diaper.

[Pax]

Ha ha. That would get rid of panty lines.

It really does.