Kids These Days

People of a certain generation (ahem, fellow Boomers and our close cohorts, Gen Xers, I'm talking about us) like to bad-mouth today's youth as being self-absorbed, disrespectful, impatient, disengaged, and a host of other not-very-complimentary adjectives. But what I saw among the many students I met at this year's Professional Convention Management Association Annual Meeting wasn't in-your-face attitude. What I saw were people not very different from me.