Before We Blame The Kids

Before You Blame the Fruit, Examine the Seed

There is a question that does not get asked nearly enough when we look at the struggles of the next generation: What did we hand them?

It is easy to look at young people today and catalog everything that seems wrong. The music is too loud, too crude, too violent. The attitudes are too entitled, too rebellious, too disconnected from faith. The choices seem reckless, the values seem hollow, and the direction seems lost. We shake our heads. We point fingers. We wonder what happened to this generation.

But before we blame the fruit, we had better examine the seed.

-PK