re: Meet ‘Generation Snowflake'

Working with teenagers for almost 15 years now, these are the biggest changes I've seen that have probably contributed to the current generation's attitudes:

- A larger number of parents trending towards everyone else being responsible for raising their children. And it's at both ends of the academic spectrum. Two weeks ago I had to sit on the phone with a parent about his 11th grader not having perfect attendance. The kid signed in late and signed out early multiple times, pretty cut and dry. But not to this guy. He talked about how hurt his kid was that he didn't get a perfect attendance award, wanted me to "excuse" the tardies and early dismissals, and then handed the phone to his kid for ME to explain where he fricked up and why I wouldn't be "fixing it".

Now imagine that across the board for grades, behavior, etc. It's like they failed to grow a sack and actually deal with their kids.

- Kids who are believe they're owed something without the work for it.

- Higher rates of anxiety and depression among teens. I've seen kids flat out have a breakdown, especially at a competitive HS competing for spots at prestigious colleges. And some of it has to do with the extreme pressure by their parents that if they don't get into X college that they're fricked (a pretty absurd notion). You see so many parents living vicariously through their kids to the point that they're breaking them.