Who's the oldest Senior Citizen in here?

I think they post the questions because there are no older people in their families anywhere near where they live....and they don't know other old people to ask things of. You probably grew up like I did...with lots of family "grown-ups" around you who helped your parents raise you. Most of the wonderful things I have been taught in my life were lessons from the older members of my parents' families.

Now kids are growing up in single households....and they just don't have all that older family around them. I think there is some innate knowledge within every one of us that KNOWS that one is usually safe and can trust the older members of our species. Even young elephants, monkeys, etc. know to run to an old "tribe" member when their parents are not nearby.

I think the young are desperate for something to believe in, and what they see around them ...both in their homes and in the world outside is frightening, scary, and not to be trusted. They see the calmness of most older people and that something that tells a baby elephant to run for cover straight to the nearest old elephant is also inside our young people. More than they want to admit or probably even know.....they need and want some comfort, true talking & advising, and advice from someone older than what they have access to in their own families.

Remember that pair of parents after their son went to school in Colorado and shot all those other kids....they said they had 'no idea" their child was so unhappy. I mean, what the heck kind of house is that? My mother looked at our UNDERWEAR in the laundry....no way any of us could have been in the shape that kid was in and my mother not have noticed SOMETHING.

Most kids now grow up in the sort of households where their mother wouldn't notice if they were desperately unhappy, lonely, bullied at school....and, apparently, are so ignored by the mother that they can sneak a RIFLE into the house and go to school with it without her noticing?! How pitiful is that. I say let them post their questions here....and let's all help them the best way we can .

I feel desperately sorry for them trying to raise themselves.

I feel that most of the young ppl. Who post questions in the Seniors Category are sincere and want answers that are full of wisdom, from a knowledgable person who can be trusted... more or less. They may or may not abide by the counsel, but they will weigh the answers or the matter and the solution will come to them.

Even the scriptures say, "In the multitude of counsellors there is wisdom (or safety). Prov. 11:14.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.