Millenials in or entering the workface have been characterized as entitled, lazy and a host of other unflattering terms. While this may be true in many cases, the root cause goes back to parents who allowed such behavior in their child’s formative years. So, when the former dean at Stanford university wrote about parenting in a piece titled, “8 skills everyone should have by age 18,” it received a lot of attention.
Source: Business Insider, April 17, 2016.
4. An 18-year-old must be able to contribute to the running of a household.
The crutch: We don’t ask them to help much around the house because the checklisted childhood leaves little time in the day for anything aside from academic and extracurricular work; thus kids don’t know how to look after their own needs, respect the needs of others, or do their fair share for the good of the whole.
INSIGHTS: As parents, employers, employees and community members, we have a choice to write off many in this generation or help them acquire basic skills so that they can become productive members of society and rear a new generation without repeating their parents’ shortcomings.