Kids These days ...

Jun 28, 2017

How many times have you rolled your eyes whenever someone talks about teenagers.  How many times have teens been the assumed culprit in some circumstance?  My son is 21 now.  That means many years of playgroups, play dates and birthday parties.  Then he turned into a teenager and there were hordes of boys coming and going.  I've seen or overheard more than I would ever want to know. A couple of weeks ago I was lamenting to a friend about all of the yard work that I needed to get done.  Being disabled means I need help with that stuff now and then.  Within a few days the youth group from St. Paul's in Sydenham appeared at my door and made short work of the job.  They did it willingly and they did it well.  

Now, I am not basing my positive opinion on just a church group.  I used to run Lunch4Teens, a weekly free lunch program, and saw anywhere from 80-100 high school students every Tuesday and every single one of them lined up for lunch, ate, cleared their plates and put them in bins before they left.  The quiet conversations, the smiles and the thank-yous are what gave me a respect and love for those 'kids these days'.  You know, believe it or not, I think the world is as safe in their hands as it was in ours, maybe better.  

I'll bet if you start looking around, you will see exactly what I mean.