Age limit for youth of today????

[Twisterdog]

I think you are old when you start thinking, or worse, saying out loud something to the effect of: "I don't know what the heck is wrong with these kids today. This generation is headed to hell in a handbasket. Now, when WE were kids, OTOH ..."

[Cataholic]

Speaking for myself only, I use the phrase "youth of today" purely as a euphemism.

When one recognizes that, one is past the age limit.

[sirrahbed]

Interesting. In the past few years, since I had grandchildren - I often catch myself referring to "youth" and talking about the way my life was "when I was your age", speaking about people in their twenties and early thirties. My husband is a school teacher and so he often talks about the "kids" of highschool age. So it seems that to me, "kids" are still in school and then become "young people" until about late thirties and then they are "adults" for the next 25 years or so. Then comes "older person" and then "elderly" at about 80 or so....

I guess the posters who said that when we start using phrases like the title of this thread - then we are probably past that age limit whatever it is - like I said for me, it happened only a few years ago when I hit my fifties. I guess I felt quite young myself until little people started calling me "meemaw & mamma". I have to chuckle when my 28 year old son talks about "kids these days!!" even though I think he is joking.

It still startles me a bit when I hear myself referring to a younger age group

[Muddy4paws]

Ive considered myself an adult since I've left school at 16. I went on straight into work and worked my way up to starting my own buisness and Im 19 now!

I think you should be considered an adult when you can provide for youself off your own back and not sit about waiting for things to happen instead get up and make things happen!