Advice to today's youth

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If you could bestill one serious piece of advice to a child, lets say under 12 so most people in here can answer, what would that piece of advice be?

 

Would it matter? They wouldn't listen anyway

 

Try to understand why people act in some ways.
(Don't judge them on first sight)

 

( Edit: this is to Aikanaro -> ) Precisely. Also, precisely the reason things are the way they are. But what can you do? Me, I'll just make sure the under 12-year-old will learn to respect/fear me real well if it comes to it. Wouldn't be the first time either. Fear isn't a good thing, but it's the only way any child will ever learn to respect and value. The fear of punishment.

So an advice? Pain.

A wise man once said (you know, I have to stop referring to myself as some wise man ): Father is the discipline, mother is the sympathy, together they are the teacher, and their product is a human, completed.

Nowadays the roles are not that simple, as either may be either, and probably both are a little of each. But it's just to emphasize that both are needed ( really?), discipline, and love.

[ January 23, 2003, 14:19: Message edited by: Foradasthar ]

 

Sunscreen of course...

 

1) Don't waste your opportunities (this assumes that the kid can RECOGNIZE an opportunity when it's presented).

2) Be true to yourself.

 

I think i'd have to say live roughly by the ten commandments. I'm not a hardly religous person but those are still a decent set of rules to live by.

 

Hmmm... Being only 16 myself, I can remeber pretty clearly what it was like not so long ago. My best piece of advice would be to listen to the opinions of others, even if you don't agree with them, and to calm. Down. Right. Now.

 

Don't smoke cause it's 'cool', because..well it's not

 

I'd tell someone under 12:
- Enjoy life right now because as you get older it gets harder and harder (I never could enjoy it much, I had to do my growing up very fast.)
- If you have a goal in life don't let the opinions of people stop you from trying to accomplish it (I'm refering to personal experience here.)
- Try to do the right thing, always!

 

Don't try to grow up too fast. When you become mature, you miss out on the stuff you could have been seeing and doing as a kid. And be carefree; let the grown-ups do the worrying for you.

Wow, I sound like Holden Caulfield.

 

Start thinking about which other countries you'd like to live in and start learning some other languages. You want to be able to get out of the UK as soon as possible.

PS sorry if the whole country is beyond repair by the time you are old enough to leave.

EDIT - just to quantify this, I'm talking about things like facing (by the time they are old enough) a £30k debt (current estimates £21k) when they start their adult life in they choose to try to better themselves with a university education, needing to have attended higher education to qualify as a cleaner, not being able to afford their own home until they are into their 40s (current estimates of first time buyers age 34), being even older before you can afford marriage or children, a health service that has collapsed, no pension, a retirement age of 75, minimal rail, fire and police cover, etc, etc.

On the bright side, global warming might improve our local climate, as long as you don't live near the coast or a river.

[ January 23, 2003, 17:59: Message edited by: Slappy ]

 

Follow your dreams. If you can make a living by living out your dreams, then great. If not, find a way to make them come true while doing something else to pay the bills.

 

Never eat yellow snow.

Always do what you can, trying to do what you can't will make things worse.

Cool is acting your age doing well in school and out, Cool is not behaving like a spoiled brat, bullying and doing stuff open to older people.

Things get better in the end, but often you have to get lower down to find that end.

Acknowledge rumours and stories about people, but wait until you meet them until you can make your own opinions.

Critisizing on something you could not or would not do is pointless, you can only offer advice and help if it is needed.

If friends are getting you down there is always family, if family are getting you down there is always a forum open.

 

Be young and have fun, just don't burn down any buildings.

 

Kids today wouldn't listen. More likely to stab you actually...

 

I would tell the kid what my parents told me, "there is always time for a condom".

 

I was thinking about this, and if I could go back and give advice to myself at age 14, I wouldn't have listened to it.

So the only thing I really can say is if a future version of yourself shows up, look for a wierd kid and a bug eyed old scientist type. If you see them, take the sports almanac and lock it in a bank vault

 

too funny, man, too funny.

My one piece of advice: If there is something you are contemplating whether or not to do, that if you do, and a future you comes back in time, that because you did this thing he will want to inflict physical harm on you for your stupidity, that is a good sign not to do it.

Basically, think, idgit.

 

Amon-Ra, that has to be one of the longest and most incoherent single sentences I've seen on this board. Extra points for only squeezing four commas in there.