Young people are so lovely these days

I agree Mojack and Gwyllt I don’t see anything different now from forty odd years ago or longer, just that most of the lovely ones seem to be related to people on here!

I think the country was more violent when I was coming of age in the eighties. People are rightly concerned about knife crime and drugs in the inner cities, but there was actually more violent crime in the eighties. Football hooliganism, nightclub and pub brawls, violent youth cults like skinheads, people being attacked because they looked different, these were a fact of life in the eighties.
Looking back to the eighties, I was beaten up for nothing at a bus stop because two young men didn't like what I was wearing, and a year later was attacked by a skinhead for supposedly getting in his way on the pavement. Also I can remember being in a pub and someone smashing a glass in a man's face for nothing. Fortunately you hear far less of this nowadays.

How they are at home and with extended family may be very different to how they are at school or out and about Look at all the problems caused by drugs From what I hear teachers don’t find the kids easy by all accounts some parents seem to back the misdemeanours of their offspring

I was in M&S wanting organic bananas. A young man was unloading them on to the shelf. I said how much netter they tasted and he said when he could afford it that’s what he would buy. He then went on to think of how much better it was for the growers and the environment. He’d obviously seriously considered it all. I was very impressed.

Young people are surprisingly resiliant

What a lovely thread.I always loved having my DDs friends at our house when they were teenagers because they were such a lovely bunch.And now allin the 30s its still a pleasure to hear how they are doing and see them occasionally.
And I regularly litter pick ,and yes some youngsters drop their rubbish, but it makes me cross when I get comments that litter is because 'those youngsters' don't know how to behave. The worst offenders I've seen are adults in cars just chucking stuff out of the window. And don't get me started on fly tipping which is inevitably some van driver if the sheer amount dumped is anything to go by.

I always loved having my DDs friends at our house when they were teenagers because they were such a lovely bunch.And now allin the 30s its still a pleasure to hear how they are doing and see them occasionally

So did we. They're in their 40s and 50s now but we still love to see them sometimes.