34 Of ‘The Kids Today’ Criticisms That Are Actually Very Accurate, As Shared Online

I mean the amount of teachers in America complaining that students of all ages, including teenagers are unable to read properly is probably something to be concerned about

Kids today don’t know how to be bored. They don’t know how to entertain themselves. They grab the phone the moment they’re not being stimulated. I had to learn how to deal with boredom. They don’t have those skills.

Kids today will self-diagnose mental health conditions to justify their difficulties in life.
Don't get me wrong, young people with legitimate mental health struggles affecting their lives do exist, but unless a medical professional evaluates you and makes a.diagnosis, I will take your #ActuallyAutistic TikTok with a grain of salt.
I also have a hard time believing that so many people from Gen Z have DID, it's an exceedingly rare diagnosis, so much so that there's even a debate among trained psychiatrists about it potentially not even being a real thing at all.

They are worse in school - not just academically but behaviour-wise as well.

A teacher friend told me about how she is constantly getting s**t on by her classes. From how she described it, it sounds like outright bullying.

She basically said that they openly mock and laugh at her for everything she says or does. In her words ‘a running commentary of criticism’.

A school in a nearby town lost 18 teachers at Christmas, all quit from being sick of the abuse.

My year was considered awful when I was in school, but it was mainly refusal to do things, arguments, the usual.

Nowadays it’s less back-and-forth with students and teachers and more just a barrage of insults and threats.

After hearing that I really wonder how long teachers will last as a whole if something doesn’t change.

Kids today are still suffering with the aftermath of lockdowns combined with the overexposure to certain badly regulated forms of social media(TikTok).

Their social skills leave a lot to be desired.

The kids today have victim mindset. They will over-react instead of accepting their fault and working on them if you try to criticise them.

They seem to have a lot more anxiety than my generation. We were more relaxed. These kids have anxiety and crazy expectations.

No one played a sport year round for 20 hours a week when I was kid with few exceptions. These kids play constant sports and after school tutoring and need to do homework, get good grades, and be start athletics at the same time. Gen X didn’t give a s**t about any of that. We opted out.

We are in our phones and devices too damn much to enjoy life WITH each other.

They're overly anxious. Our brains were not fit to withstand criticism on a global scale (which social media offers) and children without yet a prefrontal cortex are stunting their mental health capacity. 

Having worked at a university, younger people aren't very good expressing their needs. Whenver someone came to my office for something, I had to play with words to try decipher what they were trying to say in order to give them the help they needed.

I really dont mean to sound like a boomer here, but instilling work ethic before adulthood is critical, and I think there's been a decline in that lately. Make sure kids are helping around the house, show them how to wrench on s**t, things like that.

I feel like Gen Z is growing up in an era filled with rage bait more than there’s ever been in the past and public discourse is going to look wild when they’re in the 30s and 40s

I saw a meme- 50 years ago car manuals showed you how to adjust the valves….today they warn you not to drink the contents of the battery. And every year I’m alive I understand why my grandparents were so crotchety.

I have never seen such a failing in basic math and study skills. I’ve taught freshman in college who didn’t know how to do the simplest algebra possible and regularly failed open-book tests with the answers verbatim in the book. It hurts to grade.

They need to stop f*****g disrupting foot traffic in public places to film themselves badly dancing to loud awful music on tiktok. Especially here in nyc. We've got rules man, don't block the f*****g sidewalk.

Kids today have subpar typing skills compared to the generation that grew up with physical keyboards

Less emotional maturity and lack of ability to cope under pressure

Around 2012-13, I spent a year working as an online tutor for essay writing. I had several students and graduate students from a well-known Christian university that had very low enrollment criteria.

I had undergraduates who couldn't form a complete sentence, who totally lacked any knowledge of proper English grammar and punctuation, and who couldn't tell me what the verb was in their introductory sentence. And yet, I was expected to tutor them in their writing skills in a very short period of time.

Their college had purchased a subscription for all of their students, and so avoided having an on-site writing center for students who struggled.

I had one essay I long remembered: a doctoral student's dissertation was given to me to review, and the student's "research" involved a Survey Monkey survey with 10 questions, that all of 10 people answered. ALL of her conclusions were reached from "interpreting" her survey results. The *only* source of information she used other than her survey results was the Bible. Really.

And it was only 5 pages long. FIVE PAGES!! For a doctoral dissertation!! Liberty University. Never hire someone from there.

The ability to troubleshoot things. I've noticed this to be an increasing trend. If something isn't working, they don't appear to know how to find the answer. They grasp things quickly but I expected them to be able to solve things more easily. It seems to be going the other direction.