Kids These Days...
Aristotle, 4th c. BCE :
"These youth are such as know-it-all"
1st c. BCE:
"These beardless youth find delight in horses and dogs, soft as wax, waste their money, arrogant, greedy..."
1330:
"Youth are destroying our language by shortening it unnecessarily"
1771:
"The manly figure of our forefathers is gone. Today the youth are like girls, self-admiring..."
1862:
"Youth are being addicted to these new literature called novels. Today there is a reading mania"
1925:
"Youth have bad manners, indiscipline and are thoughtless, rude and utterly selfish"
1925:
"Youth are not adventurous anymore. Nobody runs to the sea like I did when I was young"
1932:
"In these newspaper days where information is cheap, youth no longer have time to develop conversational skills"
1951:
"Youth are so lazy, they readily take bus instead of walking like everyone else does"