Young Adults In The 50's

You are helping your mom make dinner, helping your siblings get ready for bed, and making sure you’re ready for the next day. For the average young adult in the 50’s this was a couple of the many things that consisted of a normal day. A young adult today many say, “How dare they make us responsible of so many things! What do they think, that we’re in the 1800’s?!” Clearly, young adults from the 50’s and young adults now are completely different. It is important to know how young adults used to act because many individuals agree that we have lost many of the righteous values young adults then obtained. Expectations and actions of young adults in the 1950’s compared to teens today have changed dramatically. For example, expectations for the

When they woke up in the mornings, they already knew everything they were going to do because they had a daily routine. The night before the young boy or girl would set out their outfit for the next day, that way they did not have to spend those precious minutes thinking about what they were going to wear in the morning. They would change into their nice fresh pair of clothes, made sure they combed their hair, put on their shoes and went downstairs with enough time to have breakfast and a ride to school. Today’s young adults don’t have much of a routine. They wake up and spend a great deal of time figuring out what they are going to wear. I know that because I am a young adult, and I do spend most of my morning deciding what I am going to wear that day. Most young adults in today’s world do not even know where their comb is at, for all they know it could have been sucked into a black hole behind their desk and transferred to a different dimension. Most of the time they are running out the door with a snack in their backpack because they do not have enough time to have breakfast. Barely caching the bus or speeding down the street, knowing that if they go any slower they are going to be even more late to class. Teens in the 1950’s made sure they kept up with what was going on in the world around them, and made sure they were for anything unexpected that could be thrown in their

Everybody made sure that they were relaxed for dinner and made it a time of enjoyment with the family. Teens knew that dinnertime with their families was a special time to bond with them. On the other hand, most of today’s families do not even have dinner together, and the ones that do usually have dinners that consist of arguing and complaining, which is a recipe for a dreadful time of day. Manners for dinnertime was a trait all young adults required. Siblings would help each other get ready for dinner, the girls would set the table, the boys would seat the girls, father would help serve the plates, they would say grace, and everyone waited for the hostess which was usually mother, to take the first bite before they dug into a delicious dinner. In today’s society we are more Darwinist, it is survival of the fittest. If you are not ready for dinner it is nobody else’s problem but yours. Don’t want to set yourself a seat, not my problem. Don’t want to serve yourself a plate, not my problem. Don’t want to wait for mom to eat, not my problem. You do whatever you have to do. In the 50’s it was important for the young adults to make pleasant conversation with their parents, they respected the table and made sure not to upset their parents during dinnertime. Today’s teens do not respect the dinner table, they argue with their parents, complain about their lives, and have no sense of