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A Brief History of Kids Today Are Lazy

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2023

Majority of Parents Say Kids Are Dishonest, Disrespectful, and Lazy --Education Week, 24 January 2023

2017

The two points that these Second District fellow travelers made repeatedly were that "young people today" were lazy and didn't know what was going on in the country and that they could never again vote for Sen. Susan Collins because she had voted against the repeal of Obamacare. --The Coastal Journal Edition Forecaster, 22 September 2017

2008

Kids today lazy and disrespectful I agree with Donna Keefer's letter ("Spoiled brats", July 19). A lot of kids these days are not taught responsibility or respect. They do not even know what manners are. --York Daily Record, 6 August 2008

1997

Mum Ann Jones of Felinfoel Road said: "There isn't a lot for kids here, but in my day we didn't have much entertainment, but we always amused ourselves. "I think televisions, videos and computers are making children today too lazy to look for things to do themselves." --South Wales Evening Post, 26 March 1997

1987

Children becoming lazy thinkers Dr. Spock blames television, push-button games --The Hanford Sentinel, 2 July 1987

1979

But another caller said there should not be any more money for schools, saying there is "too much foolishness going on in the schools." The caller said school could cut out a lot of "the extras." That same caller said that things like bowling classes, driver education, assistant teacher's aides and "58 coaches" is ridiculous and not necessary. The respondent went so far as to say "kids today are too lazy." --The Daily Sentinel-Tribune, 26 October 1979

1967

Gary Gobe, 36 Sanders Road, Edison, an Edison High School senior. "Almost every junior and senior teen-ager works either part-time or after school, and the pay on their job is better than they would get shoveling. When I was little, every time it snowed, we went out. We never got allowances and had to earn our own spending money. I guess the kids today are too lazy." --The Central New Jersey Home News, 19 February 1967

1958

Children Are Lazy Today! "They Don't Think Of Anything But Having Good Times" --The Pittsburgh Press, 3 December 1958

1946

Dear Column Mothers -- Some of you no doubt have lived through my particular experiences and looking back can see where you failed or succeeded and can advise me accordingly. I am that unpleasant person known as a nagger because I am trying to keep my home just reasonably clean and neat. I'm one against four and seem to be fighting a losing battle, in more ways than one. I've never gained much help and I'm losing my children's love and respect. Are my children different or are all children lazy? My 9-year-old daughter hates to even wash herself and doesn't until told three or four times. ...

1936

MANY CHILDREN TOO LAZY, SAYS IOWA TEACHER --The Rock Island Argus, 30 September 1936

1926

A woman writer, who has two of her own, says that children nowadays are lazy, but maybe they'll get over it when they grow up and get married; their parents did. --Press and Sun-Bulletin, 27 February 1926

1911

A group of middle aged men were discussing this morning the conditions which prevailed when they were in their prime. It was agreed that men are less trustworthy and less competent now than they were then, that children are lazier and more disobedient and that horses are vastly inferior than what they used to be. --The Manhattan Republic, 21 September 1911

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Flirting

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