When completing Twenge’s Generation Me, I am not sure how I feel about the book. There are some points in the text where I agree with what she is saying and there are other parts where I totally disagree with her, although her points about our now generation is pretty much on point. We are self revolved and everything has to be now not later. We are too focused on what we get out of our lives and never consider anyone else’s emotions purely since we just don’t care if it doesn’t have anything to do with us.
One of the main focus points that I felt throughout the text was how generation me’s parents have gone so wrong about parenting us and what we should not do with our future children to come. This is something I would like to go write about and go further into depth of what we can do to improve changes for our children to better help them as they grow. Being self involved and not caring about others will only harm us. Always making excuses as to why we didn’t complete a project only prevents us from taking on responsibility and expects everyone to hand us things in life.
I would like to use my writing to help others be aware of the harmful things we are causing for our children and how it impacts our life and theirs to come as well. Telling people the impacts of the awful habits our parents have created and coming up with solutions to the problem for our future generations to come I hope will only impact people’s hearts and want to change our coming future for the better.
I liked how you stated that when you raise children you want to make sure they do not have some of these traits that Twenge states. In doing so I think that you are fulfilling part of the reason she has wrote the book.
ReplyDeleteI don't believe that all of the negative comments Twenge relays in the book apply to the vast billions belonging to 'Gen Me'. Gen Me may have tendencies of self-involvement and irresponsibility, but it is not something that can be said about the entire community of what falls into the categorical age group of the generation. I found it very interesting that Twenge blamed the parents of Gen Me for being bad parents because doesn't that say that we should not parent like the generations before us? Throughout the entire book she does nothing but praise previous generations for being good, honest people and attacks our generation for being a disappointment. But if we are just the innocent outcome of a previous generation's mistake, then clearly we are not going to necessarily bring about the end of the world altogether. There might be hope in Gen Me after all.
ReplyDeleteI agree, we can't be too worried about ourselves all the time. If we only worry about ourselves, then all that does is make things temporarily better for us. If you disregard everyone else, they will eventually disregard you, and your "temporary" world of satisfaction goes out the window with everyone else you disregarded. Good point Samantha.
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