Recent questions tagged youth

Description : What is the more dignified response to going bald?

Last Answer : Musk should have gone with the more reliable decapitation route in treating his baldness.

Description : What places have lower minimum wages for youth?

Last Answer : I think Australia might, or maybe they used to. The UK also. Hopefully, our Aussie, European, and Asian friends answer the Q and I’d like to know how well it works in their countries.

Description : What about poor Barron Trump? Eleven years old and stuck at the White House.

Last Answer : Well Sasha and Malia didn’t have a problem. Neither did Chelsea. Even Amy Carter had friends. But they all had two loving concerned parents. Barron would be facing his parental issues no matter where he lived. Better the White House than that gawd-awful highrise apartment in NY.

Description : Do you hear anyone suggesting students not start working until they're 25 or so?

Last Answer : Never heard of that, so useless. If you finish college, you better start working asap.

Description : Do you think the 15 - 25 year-olds today are more depressed than when you were that age? If so, why do you think this is?

Last Answer : I think they have a lot more to be depressed about. But it's difficult to determine if this is an objective view or the bias common to codgers regarding the good old days . It seems to me ... for people my age was NEVER about job security or a future of underemployment. It was the draft board.

Description : What's best for the kidnapped kid who was found in Ohio yesterday?

Last Answer : Kid is an adult. No one gets to decide for him.

Description : Have you ever gone overboard in not wanting to leave someone alone?

Last Answer : I did try more than I should have with one GF that I do regret not ‘cutting the cord’ sooner but never overboard.

Description : Are "Likes" on social media ruining our youths generation on interpreting what success is?

Last Answer : answer:Interesting question. I haven't posted on facebook in forever. Log in check for messages from family and few friends, and look at funny and interesting things. Personally I give likes to ... people in school still? Just a different means to get that attention. Same thing different way.

Description : Did you have a quarter-life crisis?

Last Answer : answer:No, but I had one hell of a mid-life crisis that lasted from about 38 to 44. lol My daughter is almost 26 and may be going through something similar. Broke up with her boyfriend of 4 years, just started ... and get pets. Guess I saved it all up for the big bang around 40. It was a doozy, lol

Description : Is there ever a good time to tell a woman to stop trying to compete with her daughter?

Last Answer : Is there ever a good time for you to stop obsessing about what woman are wearing?

Description : What dumb crap did you do as a kid you realize now should have killed you?

Last Answer : answer:ages 10 to 15 Mushing - which involved hiding behind a mailbox at an intersection on a snowy day. When a car would pause at the stop sign, we would crouch down behind the car and hang ... amazing I made it to high school. Where we then got involved in drinking, weed, and taunting hookers.

Description : How well do you remember what it was like to be young?

Last Answer : I have been passing on knowledge most of my life as a teacher. But it does little good as most young people already know everything

Description : How do I meet gay people in my area or online?

Last Answer : answer:Try doing a Google search for online forums for the LGBT community. I'm not sure if one exists, but it's worth a check, and the way most forums work you can remain as anonymous as you wish ... to meet in person if you want to. Just use caution for your own personal safety. Best of luck!

Description : What were you absolutely certain about when you were younger that you no longer believe?

Last Answer : answer:I was sure Santa was real…. until I was about six. That my dad was absolutely perfect and could do no wrong. [Not that he was a bad person, but thankfully I grew up and realised he was human and could make mistakes. Much easier on him to live up to.]

Description : Have young people always been so selfish but I'm just noticing it more now?

Last Answer : answer:As a member of Gen X, I wonder a lot lately if the baby boomers are aware of how selfish they appear to younger generations. I am always shocked at the way they vote to protect themselves and still anticipate I, my cohort, and those in gen y, will take care of them as they age.

Description : Objectively, do you usually act, or come off as, older or younger than your years?

Last Answer : My age has finally caught up with the usual way I’ve always acted since the age of 24. I’m now 43.

Description : What is some advice you would give to your 21-year old self?

Last Answer : Exercise more – it makes a difference. And avoid Linda like poison!

Description : For the men of fluther, were you reckless when you were young and how old were you when you 'grew up'?

Last Answer : Only when I had kids. Now that they have grown up – I’m sliding back to my youthful recklessness again.

Description : As a child or youth, did you have a crush on a cartoon character?

Last Answer : Racer X from Speed Racer.

Description : What are those new dolls that have removable hair?

Last Answer : I’m pretty sure they’re Bratz dolls.

Description : How much wiser did you become after your early 20's?

Last Answer : Nothing is instant, like you’ve described. It’s a building process, regarding character and experiences. You can only assess the growth as the living of life proceeds,

Description : How do I get my youth group to start giving offering on steady basis?

Last Answer : It is up to them to participate so you can teach them they should but they can refuse.

Description : How would you explain the low voter turnout amongst young people in the 2010 election?

Last Answer : I’m not young and I did vote, but I can say that a large number of my young friends and acquaintances said they did not vote because they felt none of the candidates were worthy.

Description : What values do you think youth completely lacks?

Last Answer : answer:On a general level, respect and sympathy for fellow-humans. I cannot be absolute in this because much of the youth are rough diamonds in the making and to be honest it is not the youths' ... the ones behind them who were supposed to instil those values into them but did not and will not!

Description : What was high school like for you? Were you a jock, poplular, geek, band person, stoner? What did it mean to your life after you graduated? Do you regret your hs choices?

Last Answer : I loved high school - I was a science nerd and a drama kid and the bisexual' and all the boys wanted to make out with me in the staircase and I ran many clubs and because of high school I began ... teachers that used to hit on me and tell em they were quite the perverts. They all agree with me.

Description : What does it mean to feel a certain age?

Last Answer : I think we became unlinked from age in the 1960s. For instance – the gulf between the music I listened to, and the music my parents listened to was vast, but my kids and I like the same music. That’s just one example among many.

Description : Loathing one's own country: is it immature?

Last Answer : His opinion is immature, due to it’s naivete and ignorance. And can occur in the educated or uneducated – young or old. However, disliking your country’s policies and culture is fine. You have a right to think for yourself.

Description : Where does the impulse to "sweep it under the rug" come from? Is this a helpful impulse?

Last Answer : Shame almost never works I have that sweep it under the rug' impulse too, it's been instilled in me from 40 years of conditioning from my family. When I was seeing a counselor to work through issues ( ... only my happiness, but that of those around me so I CHOOSE to face my problems head on now.

Description : At what age did you first feel "old"?

Last Answer : I’m feelin’ pretty young still…frat party right now woo….

Description : Youthful follies I: what did you learn from some major mistake?

Last Answer : That there ARE more fish in the sea. Dont hang on to the moment or feeling that has already passed, because your afraid that you'll never find that trait in a guy/girl again. Trust me you ... through something over and over again if you know its wrong. And dont change unless you belive you should.

Description : Youthful follies II: What mistake do you wish you had made when you had the chance?

Last Answer : I had a chance to stay out in California and start to work in film but instead, moved back to Wisconsin to finish up my bachelors degree. While I'm happy I have my degree, I really would rather be ... . Guess I'll just have to do something huge in the midwest and hope that it gets noticed. :-/

Description : Would you be offended if you were 32 years old and someone asked you if you were a freshman in college (at a school where the vast majority of freshmen are 18 years old)?

Last Answer : Offended or thrilled?

Description : What's your sense of the generation gap these days?

Last Answer : Younger generations are pretty occupied nowadays with much more entertainment available especially from the internet. Take for example in a family, i think most kids now prefer to spend their time ... to accumulate wealth and the exposure to wider aspect of life with the advent of technology.

Description : Have you ever been in a situation where the term "I was young and needed the money" applies?

Last Answer : no, guess i was lucky

Description : Do you think that a performing artist should stop performing when they get too old to provide the level of performance they gave in their younger years?

Last Answer : I guess not if people are still willing to buy the tickets and the shows are still selling out. Hey the Stones are still rockin. I know when my parents went to see Bob Dylan a couple years ago they were pretty disappointed. But I guess that’s on a different performance scale than Madonna.

Description : Did you have a childhood?

Last Answer : Yeah! I’m still trying to have one.

Description : If you could give your younger self one piece of advice, what would it be?

Last Answer : You are way more valuable than you think you are.

Description : Who is the modern-day, urban Holden Caulfield?

Last Answer : I'm not sure if you're looking for fictional characters, but I think the movie Igby Goes Down was based on Catcher in the Rye. There was a teacher in high school who showed her ... I also feel that the tortured character Ephram Brown from the cancelled show Everwood channeled bits of Holden.

Description : A QUESTION ABOUT TODAYS YOUTH...

Last Answer : For future reference, you can just ask the question in the question field. Also, you might not want to use ALL CAPS.

Description : What are some things you used to think were true when you were a child?

Last Answer : I use to think that Care Bears were real. I was kinda upset when I found out they weren’t up there protecting us.

Description : Who was your childhood hero?

Last Answer : Hulk!

Description : If you could go back to talk to yourself when you were 17, what specific pieces of advice about life would you give?

Last Answer : answer:Nothing. Whatever wisdom I have (and it ain't much) has been gained by muddling my way through the best I could. I've learned as much from my wrong turns as from my brilliant ideas. I wouldn' ... me were to appear before me offering sage advice, I think I'd beat him off with a stick.

Description : Ah, youth. Does it ever change?

Last Answer : answer:Generally, my concerns consist of day by day issues. ie, what am I going to wear/do/go today? I've stopped with the constant wonder about relationships, and am more money orientated with my thoughts. ... I'm glad my dad can relate to me. Other than that, I dont have much thoughts on it.