Everyone has heard a grandparent say, “You kids today are so lazy.” That statement is not completely unfounded for the young population.
To begin, most kids rarely even go outside, let alone go play, go for a walk, or even just sit outside and get fresh air.
Most kids spend their time inside surfing the Internet, watching TV, or playing some kind of videogame, so the excuse can’t even be that they have too much homework.
When kids do not have something to do for one second they immediately turn to their devices to keep them busy instead of going outside and playing like kids used to do.
Overall, most kids could not stand a chance athletically against older generations. Now granted there are always stand-out athletes, but the majority of kids are physically lazy.
This laziness also carries over to the work that kids do — or actually what they don’t do.
Kids have always gone through school trying to do as little as possible, but today kids rely mainly on copying work. They don’t even read books anymore: Most kids resort to using Internet resources, such as Sparknotes, Thug Notes, or Schmoop.
Even the way papers are typed now shows how lazy kids have become. When today’s grandparents and even most parents were typing papers, they had to use a typewriter, where if they made a mistake they would have to retype the paper. Now kids can save copies of their work and easily fix any errors.
Older generations of kids normally all worked, and worked very hard. Today kids believe they are entitled to so much for working very little. They do not know the value of hard work, and just skate by as lazily as possible. They would rather go on different forms of social media or take selfies than actually perform work in turn for a reward.