Study: Many Teens Overconfident, Have 'Wildly' Unrealistic Expectations

[Charlie]

As for "wildly unrealistic", spend 10 minutes on Bimmerforums' offtopic board. You don't need to commission a study to see how out of touch most kids are.

-Charlie

[mrsleeve]

when I was in little league, I was center field, Iwanted to play 2ed base or short, I was a crappy short at that time. So I worked my ass of and spent lots of time practiceing and my coach's made extra tiem for me to get better. I ended up being the starting short stop by the end of that season, and made the "all star team" as the starting short to play other towns best. That taught me a lot about how to get ahead in life.

[StereoInstaller1]

The thing to teach your children (after you tell them who their REAL Daddy is) is that Self esteem comes from doing esteemable things.

[eric (^__^)]

I don't think it's the pills - I think it them being pampered. I was at cici's the other day and there were 2 soccer teams there. Probably like 4 or 5 year olds. Every kid left with an equal sized trophy. I wouldn't put my kids in a league like that. People don't understand that you have to work hard to win. Also, you sometimes lose. All of these kids are going to feel like they deserve a trophy just for being alive.

when really they are all huge losers

[Ral]

The thing to teach your children (after you tell them who their REAL Daddy is) is that Self esteem comes from doing esteemable things.

plusone

[DarkWing6]

(after you tell them who their REAL Daddy is)

Luke, you are my father.

[Nicademus]

I don't think it's the pills - I think it them being pampered. I was at cici's the other day and there were 2 soccer teams there. Probably like 4 or 5 year olds. Every kid left with an equal sized trophy. I wouldn't put my kids in a league like that. People don't understand that you have to work hard to win. Also, you sometimes lose. All of these kids are going to feel like they deserve a trophy just for being alive.

This right here is right on and the heart of the problem. "Everyone is a winner" mentality. Everyone is equal.....bullshit. It pissed me off so bad one year on my soccer team. I had moved to a different team and my new coach was a total waffleswaffleswaffleswaffleswaffles bitch as well as my friends dad. I had come from a team that liked to win, but we also had fun and everyone was cool with it. If it meant me sitting out because it was a better strategy to put in another kid at the time, I was all for it. I would actually be embarrassed if someone left me in so as to not be "mean". Anyways, on my new team the coach would always pull me out because I'd upset the other team and get them angry and take them out of their game. I remember him telling me he wanted to win the sportsmanship award and I was going to ruin it for our team!??? WTF!? The sportsmanship award? How about winning some of the real awards like district and state? That's the kind of awards my old team won. I recall getting this kid to punch me in a game and go him a red card. I was so pleased with myself (yeah I was that guy, a total prick but I knew how to do it right). My waffleswaffleswaffleswaffleswaffles coach pulled me out and told me that wasn't fare and chose to voluntarily play a man down in order to be equal with the other team!? I played one more year on that team and then quit playing soccer for good after playing for over 9 years.

Also about all the equal sized trophies I earned, they're all meaningless. I only feel pride in the ones that were earned for doing things. Oh by the way we won the sportsmanship award two years in a row on that team. You don't know how embarrassed I was at the awards banquet with all the teams their. The top three teams got 1st,2nd and 3rd and then they announced the sportmanship award and talked about how it was actually more meaningful than anything else because it showed who we would grow to become in our adulthood and other BS. I felt like a dog with it's tail between its legs walking up to get my award :oops:.........a damn Tshirt with sportmanship written on the front and back and a picture of two hands shaking on the back. :shock:

[eric (^__^)]

you should have taken the sportsmanship trophy, and then spit in the guy's face right there on stage

[Nicademus]

you should have taken the sportsmanship trophy, and then spit in the guy's face right there on stage

Tell me about it. The team got a trophy and we all got tshirts. I kept telling everyone on the team to wake up and stop being pussies. Only one guy did and we remain friends to this day. It was hard because the coach on that team was a friends dad, but I still didn't back down from him. I told him right to his face that it was really gay.

[cferb]

Smart kids are confident and know they can fail
Dumb kids are confident and think they're entitled to success.

It's too bad we don't have more smart kids, confidence is a good thing, but you need to know that success is earned.

[eric (^__^)]

I should have been born in Japan. I would've either succeeded or had the balls to off myself years ago.

[OrganicMechanic]

what about the Nader girl shirt?

[matt]

Smart kids are confident and know they can fail
Dumb kids are confident and think they're entitled to success.

It's too bad we don't have more smart kids, confidence is a good thing, but you need to know that success is earned.

There are plenty of both. The trick is to know who is who.

[Pinepig]

As for "wildly unrealistic", spend 10 minutes on Bimmerforums' offtopic board. You don't need to commission a study to see how out of touch most kids are.

-Charlie

Bunch of little Emo waffleswaffleswaffleswaffleswaffleswaffless.

Somebody coddle my balls, my girlfriend left me. JFC

[Dave]

Dumb kids are confident and think they're entitled to success.

Two words . . . .

Sarah Palin.