Let's Wander & Wonder with Jong & KC

This blog has been in my drafts for almost 2 months now and it seems that now is the perfect time that I post this. I also wanted to insert my 3rd month here on hive. Happy 3 months to kcwonders🎉🥂

The first-ever collab blog with a good friend of mine, my aunt, my teacher, my usher, my discipler, my partner in crime, and so many more😂 the one, the only, Ms.@jongcl. So basically, this is going to be a podcast kind of concept except it's a blog. This is a bit long I know but trust us it will be worth your time.

Topic #1: A letter to the young generation

@jongcl: As a teacher, I can tell whether this particular student obeys and honors his/her parents or not. It is because the child's behavior in class and how he/she interacts with me as a teacher in the classroom significantly shows the way he treats his/her parents. Now of course, as usual, this observation does not apply to all, because not everyone is as showy and as interactive in the classroom. Moreover, I am not a psychology expert, so I may have lapses in judgment (maybe lots of times). However, the amount of experience in the teaching field has helped me a lot in handling my students.

I've noticed that quite a number of my Gen-Z students seem to be entitled. Some go way beyond that and seem to be "so bossy" and "truly demanding" in the wrong context that often they hurt other people even though they mean well.

Of course, this is not entirely their fault. The way they've been raised and the environment and the Internet have extremely influenced their behaviors and thought patterns. We all know that the Internet can be good or bad-- it's what we do with it that determines which is which. Picture a child growing up and all the information on the Internet is just at the tips of his/her hands, without guidance, the info free-flowing-- both bad and good, and that child is now the teenager. We call them Gen-Z. The children who are born along with the Internet.

To the Gen-Z reading this:

Above is one of the many reasons I am writing you this letter. I've been a teenager myself. I've been to where you are right now (though I was able to play outside a bit before I was introduced to the Internet). I've been to "that" confusing and rigid and scary time of my life, too. If I could go back and tell my teen self, these are the things I would tell her:

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kc: Dear people of the Gen z,

Hello! I too am a teenager myself and part of generation z I wouldn’t deny the fact that we in generation z are different from the other generation before us in both good and bad ways.

In my generation, I know for a fact that we're much more advantageous than the other generations before us. For example, # 1 is the internet. We have grown up in a world wherein the internet already existed. The internet is one of the most useful things we possess now. If not guided properly one could be using it in a way that could change their lives entirely and maybe affect them all in all as a person. # 2 Mental health awareness. For me, this is the biggest advantage of all I can't imagine the other generations before me. All the things they went through not knowing this or not being fully aware of it is a thought I can't even process. Even now the stigma for mental health is still going on. But, still, we have to know our borders from self-love, "entitlement", and being unaware of the people around us too but that's a whole other discussion let's proceed to our main topic.

As Ms. Jong has mentioned earlier I too have felt the sense of “entitlement” maybe once or thrice I don’t know (countless times) I'm not gonna act innocent and just tell you straight to the point that I've been where most teenagers are (and still am) had that kind of "self-entitlement" but, each day with the chance God gives me I try to be better and improve myself with every chance I get.

If I were given a chance to talk to my younger self I’d remind her of the people who love and cares for her since I often tended to doubt that and maybe I’d chit-chat with her for a couple of hours and share the things I wished I had known sooner.

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