Originally Posted by jayeff

"The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for
authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place
of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their
households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They
contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties
at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers."

There is some disagreement whether that was written by Plato or Socrates. Either way it was written over two thousand years ago and proves that some things never change and that maybe, assuming there is a problem at all, the solution isn't quite as simple as we might like to believe...