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Kids today are no longer eating breakfast cereal in the mornings. Sales are down 30% from what they were 2-3 years ago.
The industry did some in-depth research to discover what the problem was. The reason? Cereal needs a bowl, and the bowl has to be washed.
Further research showed that today's children aren't given household chores to do any more. Only about 28% have to do family chores like washing the dishes. And that's why cereal isn't as popular now.
This is very true and saddens me. We deal with conflict everyday. It's all around us and unavoidable. I be leave that our ability to deal with and face it is directly related to how we view ourselves and the works around us. We are all different and unique which means we all have varying ideologies. When we have low self esteem and don't not have confidence in our abilities we try to force others into our belief system with the intent to remove conflict. If everyone only believed like me there would be no conflict right? Wrong
Kiddos nowadays need to grow a set, get out there and talk about what they believe and allow others to do the same without getting their panties in a twist. Out of those conversations will come a middle ground. A path forward.
What real life experience do you have with this age group? How do you know the generalizations the author made are accurate? A lot of sweeping claims are made about entire generations (look at the pretty nasty comments about boomers in other CD forums), so I'm reluctant to make these broad stroked remarks. So what makes you so sure you are right?
I doubt anyone on this forum is attempting to live a life consistent with 1700s standards. If they were these special little "snowflakes" would have already been culled from the herd.
How depressing if your life that you need to sit around hating on young people? Geez, some folks need to turn off Fox News, log off the computer, go outside, and enjoy life.
How depressing if your life that you need to sit around hating on young people? Geez, some folks need to turn off Fox News, log off the computer, go outside, and enjoy life.
No one is "hating" on young people. Just commenting on SOME young people who are obnoxiously entitled. Neither Fox nor any other news organization is needed to observe their antics.
This is very true and saddens me. We deal with conflict everyday. It's all around us and unavoidable. I be leave that our ability to deal with and face it is directly related to how we view ourselves and the works around us. We are all different and unique which means we all have varying ideologies. When we have low self esteem and don't not have confidence in our abilities we try to force others into our belief system with the intent to remove conflict. If everyone only believed like me there would be no conflict right? Wrong
Kiddos nowadays need to grow a set, get out there and talk about what they believe and allow others to do the same without getting their panties in a twist. Out of those conversations will come a middle ground. A path forward.
Kids today are no longer eating breakfast cereal in the mornings. Sales are down 30% from what they were 2-3 years ago.
The industry did some in-depth research to discover what the problem was. The reason? Cereal needs a bowl, and the bowl has to be washed.
Further research showed that today's children aren't given household chores to do any more. Only about 28% have to do family chores like washing the dishes. And that's why cereal isn't as popular now.
I have 2 kids and they rarely eat cereal either. I agree wit below:
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Originally Posted by randomparent
That's not what the article says, but nice try. My family eats very little cereal. Why? Because it's not filling, and we prefer a more substantial breakfast. Favorites include avocado toast, bagels with lox, peanut butter and fruit smoothies, scrambled eggs on toast, refrigerator oats, and yogurt with chopped fruit and nuts. All require washing a dish, if not a pan, afterward. And, yes, my kids do clean up after themselves.
I especially so agree with the red. I have a pretty huge 14 year old son (he is 6'2" and 185lbs) and to be full he will eat half a box of cereal if I let him, which is filled with sugar and not enough protein to keep him satiated.
I usually give the kids oatmeal for breakfast or an English muffin sandwich made like a McDonald's egg mcmuffin (egg, cheese, canadian bacon on an english muffin).
They don't get hungry so fast after eating those. We also make more of a mess with dishes by actually cooking and oatmeal does get eaten out of a bowl....
My kids also do chores. My 14 year old cleans up the kitchen everyday (sometimes I do it on the weekend) amongst a plethora of other chores - mowing lawn, taking out trash, cleaning bathroom, sweeping/cleaning our hardwood floors. Even my 7 year old does chores - laundry and dusting and sweeping.
People don't eat cereal so much anymore because it is filled with sugar, which causes obesity and a health of other problems and it is not a substantial breakfast. FWIW, my kids do like cereal and due to them not being in school right now, I bought them some of their favorites last week to eat for a snack during the day. They were super excited about it lol. My son especially was also excited because I bought him some Ramen noodles. I rarely ever buy them because of the same reasons as cereal, too many carbs, not a substantial, nutritious meal. My son loves them though and claims he is noodle deprived so I bought him a pack recently. He ate them in a bowl lol.
Not really. A more accurate comparison of a Conservative church would be more like an agenda-driven student organization, like a pro-choice, pro-Palestine, or pro-Socialism student group. Its expected to be biased due to its agenda, much like a church is expected to be. If you don't like the message of that organization, you find another group.
The campus as a whole is like comparing a church to the whole town it resides in. The campus is essentially where a student lives for 4+ years, and if the school and student body is protesting and suppressing any opposing views, that's a big problem.
These schools are going to churn out students who never hear any opinions other than what the school approves of. Its promoting intolerance and ignorance under the guise of higher education -- and how can you call it higher education when students are not challenged by opposing ideas and have the chance to think about why they hold the views they do? That's why colleges are accused of being indoctrination centers. They are complicit in silencing other points of view that conflict with the personal beliefs of those in charge.
And this is how we arrive at "Generation Snowflake." These kids have been taught a narrow worldview their entire lives, and once they arrive at a place where someone challenges what's been burned into their minds since they were kids, they don't know how to handle it. They don't understand opposing views and they aren't equipped to debate those views with facts and reason, which is why the deepest intellectual arguments you get from snowflakes are accusations of 'isms', 'hate speech' or loud, childish trantrums (aka TrigglyPuff).
A Church or a campus organization has no obligation to be accepting of opposing viewpoints. A college does. Its supposed to be a marketplace of intellectualism and diversity, though that does not extend to diversity of opinion. When these schools are siding with disruptive or violent protesters who want to suppress free speech, its a dangerous precedent. It shows that Conservatives students are not welcome and it means that the avenue to professional careers is for Liberals, not Conservatives.
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