Religion and work ethic

think about this, the Bible has survived many many years, beyond any individual lifetime. Although I am Christian, I can say the same of other religions. Their writings and holy books have been the one continuing thread of mankind. We are only grains of sand in the whole of humankind. We are special but it is not "all about us". This is the ME generation. Our kids are given gold stars in school for completing the smallest of tasks. They are all reinforced that they are special and any little thing they do is great. Well that is all fine and good, but how does that prepare them for the adult real world? I don't think so.

Say a child, newly reaching adulthood, having had his own way and praised for it in school, gets his first job out of high school. His eyes fly open suddenly, you want me to do what? well, I'm only 5 minutes late, big deal. What you mean, I can't get a nose ring? After dissing his boss on Facebook, the young person recieves his pink slip from work, ie. he gets fired for being tardy, dress code violations and disrepecting his supervisor. WHAT? But in school, he got away with all this? what's going on?

Well, what's going on is that the child is not prepared with work ethic, or respect for others, particularly elders and those in supervisory positions. We used to have religion in school, we used to prepare a child with ethics. But that's not politically correct now.

I see high unemployment, but not enough people with skills needed to fill those jobs. Also, the lower end jobs, kids have been indoctrinated that they are so special those jobs are beneath them. That is why we have illegal aliens, willing to work in those jobs. Our forefathers were farmers mainly in this country. They valued education for their children, they valued religion. Now these children we have created want to be football stars and would find it distasteful and beneath them to work in a field, gathering a harvest.

So we have a generation of youth who thinks they are too good to do anything besides make big money and have lots of material things.

They need some humility and someone bigger than them in their lives. That's my story and I'm stickin' to it!