Generation iY: Our Last Chance to Save Their Future Author: Dr. Tim Elmore Dan Cathy | Language: English | ISBN:
B004AHKBLC | Format: EPUB
Generation iY: Our Last Chance to Save Their Future Description
The one book every parent, teacher, coach, and youth pastor should read.
This landmark book paints a compelling—and sobering—picture of what could happen to our society if we don’t change the way we relate to today’s teens and young adults. Researched-based and solution-biased, it moves beyond sounding an alarm to outlining practical strategies to:
• Guide “stuck” adolescents and at-risk boys to productive adulthood
• Correct crippling parenting styles
• Repair damage from (unintentional) lies we’ve told kids
• Guide them toward real success instead of superficial “self-esteem”
• Adopt education strategies that engage (instead of bore) an “i" generation
• Pull youth out of their “digital” ghetto into the real world
• Employ their strengths and work with their weaknesses on the job
• Defuse a worldwide demographic time bomb
• Equip Generation iY to lead us into the future
- File Size: 641 KB
- Print Length: 230 pages
- Page Numbers Source ISBN: 0578063557
- Publisher: Poet Gardener (November 1, 2010)
- Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
- Language: English
- ASIN: B004AHKBLC
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
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- Lending: Enabled
- Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #51,499 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
Alright, for those of you who don't have a lot of time, I've got the short and sweet review:
On the cover of the book, Generation iY, there's a quote from Mark Bauerlein that calls this book "a must-read guide for parents, mentors, and teachers..." I wholeheartedly agree. So much so that I'm encouraging my boss to buy 30 copies for our Student Development personnel and everyone on our University Administrative Cabinet. This is more than a book, it's a resource! Buy two copies and give one to a parent, mentor, teacher, or coach.
There you go. If you're still reading, then lets dig a little deeper into Dr. Tim Elmore's latest book.
I'll start by telling you that the beginning of the book, in fact, the premise that Elmore writes this book from...is depressing. It's not good news. Elmore believes this generation, Generation iY (those kids born after 1990) are in trouble - for a variety of reasons.
The first chapters of Generation iY paint a picture of a generation headed for a trainwreck. Elmore describes the wide variety of influences that have resulted in a group of young people who are "overwhelmed, overconnected, overprotected, and overserved."
I've got to be honest, what I like about the book I also struggled with: it starts with such a bleak picture. It's not that I haven't seen some of these tendencies in the students that walk the halls of my University, I just have a little bit of difficulty with the particularly negative generalizations that seem to plague this generation. Perhaps it's because the same thing happened to my generation, Generation X. We were the slackers and the latch key kids. When the books started to come out that told how bad we were, I wanted to do everything I could to prove the sociologists wrong.
As a part-time college instructor, I see the characteristics of the latest generation of college students on a near daily basis. At any given time, roughly ten percent of the students are paying more attention to their cell phones during a lecture than they are to me. It is almost impossible to keep their attention for anything more than an hour and the most common complaint that I receive is that I don't show them precisely what to do before giving them lab assignments in the introductory computer classes.
As a former volunteer coach for several years in youth soccer and softball, I have experienced the wrath of parents that believe that their child was either treated unfairly or was the victim of an unfair play or official ruling. During the last two years that I was a soccer coach, the organization had to institute a policy that the parents had to be on the opposite side of the field as the teams. This was so that the players and coaches did not have to listen to the torrent of criticism emanating from the parents. I decided to give it up when the league instituted training sessions for referees on how to handle a physical assault by a parent.
I also served as a volunteer judge for contests such as science fairs and so have a lot of experience with "helicopter parents", those that hover next to you as you meet with their children, ask them questions and then write down your findings. I had parents blatantly looking over my shoulder and breathing down my neck trying to see what I was writing.
Elmore mentions these situations as part of his "problems with the latest generation" discussions. On the unfortunate side, nothing that can be done with the children can eliminate the parent that will be no way other than obnoxiously aggressive.
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