Get Wisdom from the elders

I am sure that many of you don't remember your teenage years, mine are foggy at best but I do remember one thing, trying so very hard to please my parents. I wasn't a bad kid, but I always strive to please them first and foremost. Sometimes I failed miserably; other times I felt their pride.
I don't regret my past, but I wish I could have been more of a rebel. With the exception of my grades and my room, I tried really hard to please them. I chose my friends with them in mind. I didn't hang with the "potheads" or the "druggies". I hung with the nerdy types that were in band; acted in the play and a few of the "jocks".
The biggest failure wasn't my fault.
Being the oldest I experienced everything first. I was raised with the mindset of being older beyond my years. I carried a house key as soon as I started grammar school. I had a younger brother to look out for till my mother came home. Come home, lock the door and do my homework. As I grew older, I always wished I could have had a big brother or sister to talk to. Someone to tell me the perils of teenage years and then adulthood. Someone to tell me what it was like to smoke weed; or drink a beer, fall in love.
I write all of this, because today's youth are dumber than a brick. I listen to their conversations; plans (lack of them). and their activities. Today's youth are, simply put...OUT OF CONTROL.
From drinking; smoking and having sex to rainbows; trains and beer pong...at the age of 14-15?!?!?
When I was that age I was hoping for a kiss and these kids today are experimenting with positions; locations and multiple partners. It is nothing to them. I am truly disturbed by their lack of respect for themselves as well as the general public. The swear at authorities....rebel to the up most...like they can do whatever and will survive.
I weep for the future; I truly do worry about these children growing up and running this world in my old age.
When I was a teenager; parents used to say "you kids think you know everything"
Today's youth absolute do believe that they have all the answers and the sad thing is...
they won't listen to the generation before them that has experienced what they are going through. It is a different time but it is somewhat the same also. Adolescence is still the same only upgraded to 2.0.
Talk and LISTEN to your elders before it's too late!!!!