Launch Generation

In our reading material the video Failure to Launch Generation (2014), Dr. Brooks deals with how young adults are having a hard time leaving home. This is called failure to launch. One of the reasons this generation has issues with launching is too much information. They have information but don’t know how to really deal with the information they have. In the King James Version of 2nd Timothy 3:7, says “Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.” Young adults have more access to the world on a greater level than I, my parents, and my forefathers ever did but, my grandmother could go outside and look at a tree and tell me which tree would settle my stomach. Here in lays practical knowledge versus informational
knowledge.
My grandmother didn’t care who google was but my son knows Google, Twitter, Facebook, Snap chat, and any other chat you want to name; but can he really at this time of his life go and live on his own and know how to deal with life situations without becoming an emotional wreck?
I hope so but I am not 100% sure. I like to say it like my grandmother, “grown folk do what grown folk do.” That means if you need anything you work for it and it resides in your own home. I am sure my grandmother wasn’t the only one with sayings like that. Does anyone remember any of those priceless gems? My father raised his sisters and brothers at the age of 16 because both of his parents died. The young people I know like to make adult decisions when it impacts what they want, but not what they need. Ascher and Anderer (2015), discuss coping skills as another issue that may cause failure to launch. Those coping skills could be dealing with not completing assignments, not having real consequences when failing, no disciplinary actions from parents, and even the parent stopping or intervening when the school disciplines the child. If our children don’t learn how to cope with day to day issues it makes it harder for that child to leave the
nest.
In the King James Version of Proverbs 1:8 – 9 says, “8 My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother: 9 For they shall be an ornament of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck.” This word of God lets the child know the father is to give instruction and the mother is to set rules in the home. When the child obeys the instructions given their life has a course but this word is not only for the child it is for the parent as well. The parent has to set rules in the home. If the parents do not they are even more responsible for the child’s failure to launch as the child is. We have to assist our children cope and help them launch into this big world of limitless possibilities.