http://fusion.net/story/373561/yellowbrick-millennials-failure-to-launch/So your generation is not yet named. You have here a chart that explains the generations and their titles. The article I have posted here is about millennials. Read the article what is it about? React to it. How might the habits you are developing, good or bad, impact whether or not you will need to check into this program. Argue how success can be achieved. You can be creative and or provide examples of success. Your blog must be a minimum of 400 words in order to get credit.
People in this generation, to say the least, have different expectations than those of generations before us. We grew up getting a trophy for being involved in activities, even if we not did not do well. I distinctly remember teachers handing out stickers when students finishing their entire lunch in elementary school. Why did we get rewarded for such trivial accomplishments? We took this mindset into high school and then onto our adult life. We want to receive recognition for participating, but when we fail to be recognized, we want to give up. One of Yellowbrick's programs is trying to turn that around. They want to help the people who are affected by this state of mind function as a "normal adult." This issue is what exactly is "normal" and how do parents justify spending their life savings to send their child to a facility such as Yellowbrick? I think that it is unreasonable to send a person there for being a chronic underachiever. If, however, there is an underlying mental illness then I think that person should seek treatment and if necessary go to a place equipped to help them. Procrastination is one of the biggest problems, I feel that could be seen as a negative habit that could get someone admitted into the facility, but I think that it can be solved without needing an experts help. We all have traits that could get us admitted into Yellowbrick, in my opinion, but where can we draw the line between needing some tough love, and packing our bags for Yellowbrick? I think it lies in the persons mental state. I do not think that a mentally sound person should go spend more money than they have to "debrief, gossip, repeat." The main reason that parents seemed to want their child to go there was that, in there eyes, their little baby was unsuccessful, but was exactly is success? According to the dictionary, it is defined as "the accomplishment of an aim or purpose." Not that I have the power to disagree with the dictionary, but I that that success is a myth, a delusion. It is unachievable. No matter how many accomplishments you have, there is always something more. You could have run faster, got a better grade, or gone to a more prestigious college. Success was made up so that people could have something to work for, something to chase, but when do you stop running after your goal to see that in pursuing your dream, you have lost sight of the bigger picture? Picture this, the I am the CEO of a huge company. On the outside, I look successful, right? But look deeper, in my journey to the top of my company, my husband left me and took my children with him. This lead to crippling anxiety, that almost cost me my life on multiple occasions, but to maintain my reputation, I cannot seek professional help. Am I successful? What if you are homeless. Are you successful? But what if you are the happiest person ever, and you are full of love and compassion? Does your lack of a job mean that you are a failure? Does the fact that I am the CEO of a company mean I am successful, even after everything I went through to get there? In my life, I have been told to set goals that are measurable, so therefore, success cannot be a goal, but somehow it has become the biggest goal of people, young and old. We are all just dreamers with the expectations of being successful, even though "success" is not measurable; success is a fabrication of lies and impossible expectations.
ReplyDeleteHannah, I agree with you in the beginning of your blog when you said that when we were in elementary school we got stickers for finishing our whole lunch, and then when we get older we want recognition for different things, but when we don't recieve it we want to give up. I think that is exactly how people are in our generation today.
DeleteHannah, I do agree with this side of our generation you are displaying. This is definitely one of the downsides to our generation as we failed to create a better perspective toward life's real meanings. These rewards do not do much except for create a false look into what life has to offer us. Our generation fails to see that there is more to life than rather just looking into the pleasures.
DeleteThe definition of millennial is a person reaching young adulthood around the year 2000; a Generation Year. I feel as i our generation today is much different than it use to be. Now our generation is all about technology and less important things. The article "Welcome to Yellowbrick, a ‘rehab’ for stuck millennials that attempts to turn them into adults" is about a kid named Sean who has mental health issues. He goes to a place called The Yellowbrick treatment center where their purpose is to prevent “emerging adults” from growing up, calling this method the Narrative. Once you arrive at Yellowbrick you recount your Narratice for a group of doctors, and a few times each week you can listen to other people's Narritaves. Once your treatment at the Yellowbrick is completed you can listen to your own recording of your Narrative in the third person. Sean started out as a good kid, even doing well in school until around the age eight or nine when they started learning different types of math and it wasn't just coming easily to him and his parents did not like it one bit. He failed out of high school and got shipped off to a boarding school where he pretty much learned nothing, and came back, and was obviously behind a grade because he was held back, and that was when everything changed for him. He graduated from highschool, and went to college, but dropped out the year before graduation. He spend the next seven years of his life at home drinking, playing video games, and doing drugs. He was always doing drugs, which got him put into therapy, and everyone kept suggesting him to go a place called Yellowbrick and he was not about it at all. After a few years passed he friends started to not go out anymore, so he ended up living the next year of his life at Yellowbrick, which costed close to 28,000 dollars a month. The main goal of this association is to help the people between the ages of 18-30 who are pretty much still stuck in there childhood.
ReplyDeleteI also do think that I am definitely developing different habits as I get older and start to think about what I want to do with my future that are both good and both bad, but I think that none of them are to the extent that I would need to be checked into this extreme of a type of program. Sometimes kids do not want to grow up and go away from home to go to college. They just want to stay at home with their parents, this could be a cause for this type of illness also. Another reason that this illness would not be taken care of right around is because it is extremely expensive. I'm not sure who would have that much money to pay for a months worth a treatment like that at the Yellowbrick, but if your child is having and extreme amount of difficulties like Sean was, your parents would pay anything just to see you succeed at life and get better every day.
I feel that I success can be achieved at the Yellowbrick in many different ways. From what I noticed about some people who are still stuck in the childhood times, they don't really notice that they are. They need someone to tell them that they need to get help so then they will maybe notice they are are still on childhood times, or they will deny it, which also is a major sign that your probably are right about the situation. Sometimes every needs help with different things. This is something that could effect you and your success for your whole life if you do not take care of it when you first start to notice it. Our time and generation is changing everyday, and sometimes we do not even notice it happening because we are too involved in the less important things in our life.
I agree with you when you say that often people do not realize that they have an issue until someone else points it out. In Sean's case it took other people telling him that he had a problem and then realizing it on his own before he even started trying to fix it. I think that often other people are usually right when they tell us things like that and we should listen so that it does not get worse. But it is often easier to pretend we do not have a problem than to try and make it better. Also, we do not realize that things are changing and affecting our life because we get caught up in trivial things, which is a huge issue because we lose sight of the bigger picture.
DeleteI agree that most parents would do anything to ensure their child succeeds, whether it be purely for their benefit or for the fact that they didn't want to see what they'd given them go to waste. Stating that we're too distracted with other things to notice our own problems is also an alarmingly good point.
DeleteMental illnesses plague more and more people than ever before. This could be a number of reasons, some being the feeling of never being good enough for others, neglect, and none of the correct skills to deal with these feelings. There is a clinic called Yellowbrick that is trying to help those who deal with these feelings of discontent and underachievement. It targets the millennials, which are the age group of the twenty somethings and, actually includes us as well. Mental illnesses are true illnesses. If you tell someone with depression to just think happy, that is like telling someone who broke their femur to just walk it off. In those who are depressed, they can’t be happy because their brain doesn’t actually make the “be happy” chemical like the rest of the population. In this, if someone does seek halp, they are just told off and told to get back to their homework. This can make others who are struggling never want to get help, thus making them worse than ever before. At Yellowbrick, they deal with mental illnesses this way, mostly because the parents of the clients who come do not believe in the reality of the illness. Could this be the root of the problem? Could the parents be pushing too hard on their kids to be who they want them to be? Of course, there is the opposite way of thinking, the way that the parents do not care what the kids do, that they just let them slack off. But are these two parenting styles resulting in the same, broken child? Pushing too hard and not pushing at all can result in a child who lives in your basement until they are thirty. Where is the logic in this? There is a gray area in the middle of acceptance and a push for healthy motivation that most people seem to miss some way or another. At places like Yellowbrick, there is the teaching of these unlearned habits of healthy motivation and acceptance of whatever plagued them as children. This could have been because they were not as smart as their parents wanted them to be, thus making them feel stupid, childhood bullying, body insecurities, and many, many other different triggers. Once people get these thoughts in their head, it takes years and lots of work to remove them, which could make them well into their thirties when they finally get over whatever hurt them. Yellowbrick uses many different techniques, like speaking with therapists, teaching how to survive on their own, what to do if symptoms come back, yoga, meditation, and art therapy. All of these are very good at helping someone out of a funk, no matter what that could be. The price range of going there for a month is well over 27,000 dollars. This I think is ridiculous, because the skills and techniques should have been learned and in good use before they even heard of this place. The parents are unintentionally screwing their child’s life up and now they are paying heavily for it. This all comes back to the fact that mental illnesses are seen as made up and not real. There needs to be more learning about those with these illnesses, and how to help them in the real world, not just the world of therapy. Sure, Yellowbrick and all those other clinics understand, they all know how to deal. But what about the real world? Still, no one out there knows these things. This is the real problem behind all the others. The country needs to wake up to the silent epidemic right under their nose that they have been ignoring for so long.
ReplyDeleteI agree that the price of Yellowbrick is ridiculous and that it may not entirely be these patients fault for not understanding these skills. Your analogy about depression and a broken femur strengthens your argument because one with depression cannot be helped by just saying he happy or one with a broken leg cannot be suddently healed by just walking it off. There needs to be a change to teach people when they are young the ideas that will help them in the future when they become adults.
DeleteToday's generation doesn't become adults just because of some mental illnesses, they don't become adults also because of the technology we use and have that makes us weaker. Yellowstone helps people out who have these mental illnesses that prevent them from becoming adults, but why do they have these mental illnesses. Some have reasons, others do not. Depression, it has a lot of impact on someone even to the point of considering suicide. I can say that I am being help back from becoming a full fledged adult because of depression. I know what it's like to have it and what it does to a person. I gained mine as a child because I lost a lot of family growing up and the one that hit me the most was my cousin Christopher. Being depressed never really hit me until about two years ago. I was becoming like Sean in the begging of the article. Because of depression I started to not care about a lot of things, grades, school, chores, my job, and even at everyday living. All that is what is needed to be an adult. Not being lazy and caring about every action you do. Most kids in this generation use what most people know as a cell phone. I, for one, never had one and feel as if it is a waste of time, but yet I still have an iPad which is just as bad. Previous generations never had cell phones, and as my dad told me, they would be lucky to get a personal phone call on the land line if they had one. Almost every child, in America at this time, is stuck to there phones like gorilla glue. They don't socialize, they barely talk verbally, and they become lazy. Other effects can be caused from this such as stress, negative emotions, bad relationships, anger, feeling of loneliness, and even depression. As said in the Yellowstone article, these are the very things preventing kids from being adults. So, is it really the mental illnesses to blame, or ourselves. We saw, within the article, that many had to spend at least $27,500 a month on mental help and therapy. Almost all were paid by the parents of the child. So, basically, the parents were paying for their child's mistake of preventing themselves of becoming an adult. How many people do we see actually pushing to be an adult and have something similar to a cell phone? Every time I get on my bus after school. Almost half the kids walk out immediately with a phone in their hands or beside their heads. This generation isn't just becoming not becoming adults, but is also hurting themselves greatly and already hurting the generations to come after this present one. This generation is in danger, there's still a little hope for it, but there might not be within the next or the one after that. If I had to give this generations a name that actually meant how we act it would most likely be "Generation Suffering!"
ReplyDeleteThe overuse of cell phone is a major issue of this generation in terms of the lack of face to face socializing and laziness. Without being able to communicate face to face it will be hard to work as an adult because communicating is part of virtually every job. One has to be hired through and interview and the ability to communicate. Without this important quality, our generation will be in trouble when becoming adults. Their are some very good aspects about technology that should not be forgotten such as the ease of long distance communication with loved ones or the accessible information that thyme can provide at the click of a button.
DeleteJake, I think you are very strong for sharing your personal experience with depression. I think it shed some light of aspects of it that I never would have thought of. I also agree with the fact that young adults are losing the ability to communicate when off the phone. I think it is leading to problems when transitioning into adulthood.
DeleteJake, I agree with Logan in the sense that your personal experience has a very powerful effect in this blog. This helps us as readers understand that these things can affect nice folk that we even know. Lack of face to face socializing also has a huge affect on how we develop, I wholeheartedly agree.
DeleteThis article about mental illness and the Yellowbrick rehabilitation center speaks to people of the millennial generation about the habits and life skills they are developing. It is definitely seen that the millennial generation differs greatly from the past generations such as the Greatest Generation. I believe that this is solely attributed to the practices and treatment of people in society today. The overall tone of life is greatly different now than even just 20 years in the past. How so? Well, people now are exposed to the rapid advancement of technology and innovations that make the practice of living extremely easy compared to the lives of people who were responsible for founding our country. It breeds a type of laziness in millennials, not to say that the technological advancement of society is not good, but its effects are rather serious. People do not have to deal with extreme failure, or on the principle that failure is necessary for success. Millennials do not have their lives hinging on their decisions such as the Greatest Generation did. So when millennials fail they want success, but they want it right now with absolutely no work or struggle to achieve it. This is where the mental illnesses come in. People in this newest generation do not know how to effectively deal with failure, or have no desire to achieve because it is to hard. Illnesses like this can lead to depression, psychosis, and addiction to substances. People experience this because of our essentially lazy society. Not all people suffer from mental illness, but the number is greatly increasing compared to past years. These people need assistance, effective assistance and rehabilitation to help them live normal lives because they don't know how to want to succeed. A common problem in the care for these illnesses is people just saying, "hey stop doing that and just get determined." The fact of the matter is these people can't just stop, their brain will not let them. This is why Yellowbrick rehabilitation center exists. Their goal is to effectively treat mental illness and give millennials the skills they need to succeed. They also give them the skills to accept failure as a prelude to success. They properly counsel the mentally ill, giving them medication to help while also reforming them on proper life skills to live a normal and happy life. Society is not the only reason mental illness exists, in fact there are many types of mental illness that do not even relate to society, but it contributes big league. If society today could find a way to reform the new and upcoming generation back to the traits of the great people who founded this country, mental illness would not disappear, but the nature of some people's problems may not be as severe with a society built on success and the principle of failure as a learning experience. The number of people with mental illness may decrease and maybe society could lend a helping hand to the mentally ill with its rediscovered effective morals that may allow some mentally ill people to not even require rehabilitation treatment. Mental illness is serious and I hope society will see that our changing habits are not helping it. Just maybe by going back to the morals that helped found this country we can help combat mental illness on a whole new level.
ReplyDeleteI like how you acknowledged the fact that part of the reason for these issues is simply the changing society. Do you think that the changing society has put too much pressure on the millennials that are now becoming adults, forcing them into a depression-like state of mind? Or do you still believe that these mental illnesses are attributed to the lack of self-drive in individuals?
DeleteI believe that not only some types of mental illness comes from this lack of self-drive but society is changing the work ethic of even healthy and completely normal people, this country is just not what it used to be and it's all attributed the the new lazy state of mind that is developing because of ease of living.
DeleteThis article was very interesting to read. At times it had a confusing message, and I think sometimes even the author lost his opinion while writing it. It speaks of a program called "Yellowbrick", which is designed to help get becoming-adults back on track with their life. So many people graduate from school or college with such high expectations for themselves and from other people, but often times the people with high expectations seem to be the ones who fall behind. This article discusses why young adults often times lose their path in life and how this program helps to fix it.
ReplyDeleteIn my opinion, this generation is often times seen as "underachieving" or "useless" in the eyes of those before us. With our new use of technology and our new recognitions of disorders and problems in people, we are seen as a generation that cannot help themselves and simply has too many problems to keep a running society for the future. The way I see it, there are few new problems, but rather problems that are finally being recognized and cared for. There have been generations and generations of adults with mental problems, eating disorders, and many other peoblems, but in other generations they were simply ignored, for the people of that time did not know how to fix those problems. Our society today is finally fixing those problems, because we know how to fix them, and we understand that people with these problems need help. So while this generation is seen by others as helpless and unable to handle our own problems, we are merely recognizing the problems that weren't helped before and we are doing something about it.
On the other hand, there are some things in this society that are creating new problems in the development of our adults and our society, which is also a factor in the intense need for programs such as Yellowbrick. One of the many criticisms of this society is our reliance on technology. While technology is very good for societal advancements, it is also doing a terrible job of advancing our independence as individuals. A simple example of this is navigation. No longer can adults rely on themselves and a simple map to navigate, but rather they can only use technology to navigate, many people not even knowing how to read a map. Another fault of today's society's lack of independence could be at the fault of the generation that raised us and educated us. We hear countless stories of children who do not know how to do laundry, balance checkbooks, or invest their money, all simple tasks that are necessary for adulthood. Because the emerging adults in our society do not know how to do these things, when they are finally let go from their parents, they are slammed against the wall with all other responsibilities that they were never taught how to deal with. This could possibly be part of the reason for the downward spiral in the responsibility of our new adults, because many of them are too overwhelmed by the responsibilities that they were never taught how to handle.
Overall, yes, the millennials are facing problems that were not present in other generations, which causes a new need for expensive programs such as yellowbrick, which are sometimes helpful, but sometimes not. But not all of these problems are at the fault of the weakness of the millennials. Our generation is doing things right, but the wrongs that we are doing are the only things that are being recognized by our society. The stress of old generations and the emphasis on the importance of the millennial generation is encouraging the millennials, but it is also breaking them down to the point that many of them do not know what to do with themselves, and the only thing they can do is get help from programs such as Yellowbrick
I agree that the problems are being highlighted much more than the positive sides of our generation and that some of the issues have been going on for a long time, but are just now being addressed. Would they all have been so large if taken care of sooner? Also, the pressure is causing some people to rise and others to fall, and when they fall, they fall hard and struggle to get back up alone. So is there a balance to find between the highs and lows of the pressure put on people?
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ReplyDeleteThis article by Molly Osberg is about millennials failing to "launch" into their adult lives. They are struggling from transitioning into adulthood due problems such as mental health issues. These people are admitted to Yellowbrick to help resolve some of the underlying problems of this transition. Yellowbrick is meant for those who are completely lost and have exhausted all other resources. For instance, when a local institution cannot provide the necessary help for these people. Yellowbrick is teaching the patients to do simple tasks such as working a dishwasher because many have no clue how to accomplish this task. They are taught how to function in their daily lives and complete normal tasks for success. I think that some parents of millennials have underestimated the seriousness of mental illnesses because if one was never taught these chores than they cannot be successful and proves the reason these millennials may be struggling. Yellowbrick has found that many millennials have tried blocking out ideas of their college debt or the fact that they cannot advance in their life which is a problem that faces many with the rising costs of tuition. This leads to the idea of success and what it truly means.
ReplyDeleteSuccess can be relative to the person. Some define success as happiness, having a corporate job, or a job that provides for their family. Today, our society is more focused on the fact that everyone participated so everyone is a winner, which in turn makes them successful. I believe when one does not win something it can provide motivation for them to try harder the next time because everyone cannot be a winner. This does not mean that a loser is not successful or vice versa. I believe that if a person truly puts forth their best effort and have nothing else left to give then they can be successful. In a world where things are done for us by others and we are handed everything immediately such as in online shopping, we forget the importance of hard work. With hard work, a person can provide for their family and move into adulthood. In the case of millennials, they need to be helped in order to learn how to work to provide for themselves or their family. If a person undervalues the idea of hard work success cannot be achieved. Success can be working as a CEO or at a factory. If a person can work to provide they are successful. A person may not always be happy with their job as a top of the line neurosurgeon because of the long hours, but saving lives is a success. Happiness and success may not always directly correlate, but are each important factors in life worth consideration. Our generation must remember the importante of hard work to be successful.
I completely agree that the millennials have failed to see the importance of hard work in our society, which has led to failure. I think that with the new advancements of our society, we are losing the importance of hard work, which is why young adults are hitting such a wall when it comes to being independent, simply because they don't know how. I also really like how you said, in a way, that success is not the same for every person, that success for one person could be failure to another, but that doesn't matter because it is what that individual sees that matters. I think that is an important life idea. Great blog!
DeleteYour view on millennials losing the want to work hard is the main reason I feel there has been a declination to our young people. When there is not drive to get something done, then there is no way that it is going to be done properly. Hard work and a drive to better yourself is a trait lacking in young Americans even though it is essential for success in adulthood.
DeleteI completely agree with your view on success, I basically stated the same thing in a much different way in my blog. People being given awards for not earning anything is ruining our society. It is causing people to believe that they do not need to try to be successful and that everything will be handed to them. Failure must be attained in every person's life in order for them to learn from it and never want to experience the same failure again.
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ReplyDeleteAs trivial as it may sound, the more technological and supposed stress-lessening advances we make, the more stress we put on our young people. Though many have heard it before, the topic of over-computerizing or over-mechanizing simple tasks is rapidly deteriorating the framework of the upcoming young-adult society. It's no wonder young people develop mental illnesses when they're constantly being chided for merely using the tools of their time, as it they're supposed to ignore the vast expanses of "life enhancing" items all around them. Millennials are often pegged a lazy or incompetent, but the question arises of whether or not that is really their own individual faults. The article we were required to read about the "Yellow Brick Road" program truly sparked my interest and curiosity toward just what is being done about young people's lack of preparedness in life. I recall that several times in the reading it was both directly and indirectly mentioned that such candidates for this program often lack basic adult life skills, such as cooking and cleaning. Yet again, I cannot help but feel this is not at the fault of this generation alone. Millennials grew up in a time mostly unplagued by wars that directly affect their lives, so in other words, they've been some of the first to live what many believe is a true life of luxury. This assumption however, is clearly not the case. With more supposed peace and prosperity, more problems will always arise along with it, as sad as it is. With technological advancement comes war of many kinds, with war comes wounds and permanently scarring illnesses, and with these illnesses comes controversy over topics we all secretly struggle with. As a viewer and reader of many dystopian society pieces, I have come to realize that the human race as a whole is often accused of merely using one's entire existence as a distraction in hopes that they will mysteriously become something more than they are "destined" to be. Such a trivial accusation of course, is mostly only made by fictional creatures with lives spanning much long than our own, but it certainly puts one's life in perspective. What am I doing here? When will my time to shine come, and will I know it when it does? Innumerable complex cogitations coming from the minds of people who have more time and luxuries than they know what to do with collect with every passing year. The habits of procrastination, laziness, and overall stubbornness that many young people have, including myself, can be extremely detrimental when actually faced with an adult situation. The emptiness that comes with supposed prosperity is a heavy weight to tow around, but I suppose this is why many struggling individuals turn to distractions. Distractions provide a temporary relief from the pressure, while simultaneously creating more problems because of what was missed while one was preforming the hobby that encourages procrastination. Overall, as I cogitated upon the ideas of this most recent article and many other texts we have read from the community section, I feel that what people seek the most in life is a source of purpose. Perhaps, if everyone knew right where they belonged, there'd be less mental and physical turmoil found in the society of the youth. Although, such an idea could equally as easily produce the opposite effect, like "The Giver" so graphically illustrates.
ReplyDeleteAlicia, I agree with you when you say that millennials are often pegged as lazy. Also when you said if everyone knew right where they belonged there would be less mental and physical turmoil found in the society of the youth, but also if everyone was right were they belong the world wouldn't even begin to seem to be the same. I'm not too sure that would even be right if everyone in the world was in their right place.
DeleteAlicia, I do believe that the advancements in technology are actually coming to ruin people. Technology easily has the power to take in an excessive amount of control over individuals. Technology could actually be destroying the many life of people out in today's world as it consumed their brains of hardworking thought. Life indeed does have a greater purpose.
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ReplyDeleteI would like to start this week's blog with a quote by Coach Aaron Straub. It is a quote I never really thought would relate to any other aspect of my life besides basketball. However, after reading the article I see the correlation between the source of struggles in young people and his quote. The quote reads, "Practice does not make perfect. Perfect practice makes perfect. Every sentence I read in that article this quote just was ringing in my mind. If this was practiced by those in the Yellowbrick Treatment Center, many of them would be successful free from living in the institution that was devised to fix the "broken" young adults. The whole program was created to understand and reverse the irrational and irresponsible actions and thought of millennials between the ages of 18 and 30. The article was focused on mainly the institution but also focused on the story of one man, Sean, and what bad habits landed him out of the functional realms of adulthood. His action, at first, seemed strange and uncommon to me. Nonetheless, this actions must be common if there are hundreds of psychiatrists and treatment centers for young adults who perform these action and have a tough time transitioning into adulthood. I strive to understand why these actions are so foreign to me. Maybe it is because of our location in a small town. Then as I reasoned more and more, I began to see more and more cases in our little Elk County that portray less extreme yet strikingly similar cases. Alcohol is a major issue here, and I can see it having effects on the people around me. It is evident in my relationship with them and often the school grades that it is taking affect on their lives. That is why I stay away from the harmful stuff such as those. Although drugs and alcohol might not be the source of issues, they are a start, and if you mix lack of effort already instilled in millennials, it is a recipe for disaster. That's why success and the drive towards it are needed, and I think it all starts with the sense of family. I've been blessed with a good family. Having that group of people to be able to talk to when things aren't going your way is essential to success. I sense that many people who find it difficult to transition to adulthood do not have this sense of family. I truly believe family is needed to be successful in adult life.
ReplyDeleteI agree with the perception of the Aaron Straub quote. It does have a looming ring throughout the article because it relates to the efforts to correct these millennials problems. I'm not so sure that family is always what makes a person though because people with terrible families sometimes grow up to be amazing and perfectly normal people and people with families who are strong can have mental problems just like Sean. I agree family is a big contribution but I don't think it is a way to completely solve our generation's lost work ethic, only partially.
DeleteThe article on Yellowbrick is about how the institution has helped people in life. I do strongly believe that Yellowbrick has helped people that have an illness or that have been suffering because of life decisions they have made. I think that it is very sad that a place like this needs to exist. People expect to be handed things in life and when it doesn't happen they don't try anything else, they just give up. Once this happens and their life is falling apart they need to go to a center like Yellowbrick. It is sad that young people lack so much motivation that they need to go to a place to learn to be an adult. I am sure that many people there do have conditions that require help. Think about how many people don't need to be there and that are just lazy. Also a lot of people are there for depression and this is sometimes a result of them being upset because they have done nothing with their life. This program is beneficial to the people that need it but many don't. People our age use to have to leave home against their will and fight for our country and get back and start a life for themselves. Think about how many young people today that there are that would never be able to do that. I think that it is a bad thing that our generation has not been named. We are definitely not on track for a name like "The Greatest Generation". I think that as an individual I am on the right course to be successful in life. I have enough motivation to get a job and put myself into society. Many people try to get jobs and when it isn't easy for them or a job isn't handed to them then they just give up and decide to live with their parents or get welfare. An example we can see today in our very own school is the use of iPads. Think about how many students would not be successful without iPads because of all the information that their iPads just give them. Young people today are so use to having all the answers just given to them and that is what is making institutions like Yellowbrick necessary. It's scary to think about what our generations name could be. I think that everyone needs to work together and stop being lazy and become more successful so that our generation is known for its hard working people and not laziness.
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