Generation Awesome

I saw a story on NBC Nightly News last night that seriously made me roll my eyes. The story was about the generation of teens currently enrolled in university and those slightly younger who have been deemed the most self centered and self involved generation in a whole slew of generations. It went on to talk about how because they're so much more technologically advanced than previous generations, have their own MySpace pages, blogs, cell phones, pagers, electronic items etc, that they've become a group of selfish individuals who have no care or concern for those around them. It also went on to explain that part of the blame for this trend in behaviour is the encouragement this group of teens has received since infancy about how special they are, everyone is an individual, unique, your opinion is just as important and valid as the next person's and so on. OK, so I always thought those were good things to teach your kids. God knows there are more than enough people out there who grew up not feeling confident, even into adulthood, who could easily have benefited from such selfish encouragement. At the risk of writing this and publishing it for all to see and seeming self involved and as NBC so quaintly put it, "narcissistic", F-you network news! I think the world could use a generation with some confidence and an understanding that men aren't the answer to everything, opinions do matter, and that we actually are all special!