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DanHaren2019 posted...

There absolutely no reason middles schoolers should feel that way unless their parents are feeding em crap. What the fuck does a middle school kid know about college loans and debt. Definitely not enough to get discouraged by it..

They are all on social media from the moment they get home to the moment they sleep. They may not consume the same media older people do, but they see the same news updates we do. Heck, they're watching Youtube personalities talk for 15+ minutes in each video, of course they're going to hear things about wealth in America, inequality, systemic racism, etc.

And yes, parents are often to blame for many things. Another thing that has shocked me recently is that some parents, in response to their kids getting low grades/behaving badly in school will not take away the kid's phone as a punishment. For the longest time I was so confused--take the kid's phone away! You're the parent! My parents would take away my video games and ground me when I was younger.

And then I learned that parents feel guilty about taking their kid's phones away, because they themselves have used the phone as a "parenting tool." In other words, for them to take the phone away from a kid would be hypocritical as they have relied on it in lieu of actually spending time with their kids.

Do I blame the parents? Yes, but I can also sympathize that many work long hours and simply do not have the time or resources to spend that quality time with their kids. It's a mess all around.

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