{"id":145622,"date":"2023-08-18T14:55:46","date_gmt":"2023-08-18T18:55:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=145622"},"modified":"2023-08-10T12:05:21","modified_gmt":"2023-08-10T16:05:21","slug":"weekend-open-thread-458","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=145622","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Open Thread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Baby-Boomer-grandparents-parents-pushing-millennial-in-baby-stroller.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-145623\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Baby-Boomer-grandparents-parents-pushing-millennial-in-baby-stroller.jpg?resize=229%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"229\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Baby-Boomer-grandparents-parents-pushing-millennial-in-baby-stroller.jpg?resize=229%2C300&amp;ssl=1 229w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Baby-Boomer-grandparents-parents-pushing-millennial-in-baby-stroller.jpg?resize=254%2C333&amp;ssl=1 254w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Baby-Boomer-grandparents-parents-pushing-millennial-in-baby-stroller.jpg?w=733&amp;ssl=1 733w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 229px) 100vw, 229px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One of the many themes communicated by this meme is the reduction of the emphasis on accountability and responsibility. Parents are demonized for applying specific types of discipline that we expected when we were growing up. Teachers are prevented from applying consequences that we expected when we were growing up. In both cases, we did what we were supposed to do. If we fell short, we were held accountable. So now, we have individuals among the younger generations who are not prepared for reality. Result? Calls for organizations and individuals in the real world to accommodate. Fortunately, we still have many among Millennials and Generation Z who understand accountability and responsibility. <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Enjoy your weekend.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the many themes communicated by this meme is the reduction of the emphasis on accountability and responsibility. Parents are demonized for applying specific types of discipline that we expected when we were growing up. Teachers are prevented from applying consequences that we expected when we were growing up. In both cases, we did [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[221],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-thread"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-BSK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=145622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145622\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=145622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=145622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=145622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}