OK Boomer: Kipchoge says 95% of parents have failed to guide their children in matters of morality

Real Obvi wrote:

So . . . all you folks agreeing with this 95% failure notion personally know 100 sets of parents and their practices and are quite certain that 95 of them are completely failing at providing guidance to their children? And for sure, you are among the 5% of intelligent, moral people, right?

Yes I do. Got a problem with that?

igotoneforyou wrote:

GettingFasterDude wrote:

You can quibble over whether the 95% number is exaggerated or not, but Kipchoge has a point, doesn't he? There's a lot of messed up parents raising a lot of messed up kids. Some are so neglectful, you could say they don't even really raise their kids much as all. Call it "morality" or use whatever term you prefer. But I don't think you can argue that our societies have a hell of a lot of problems that could have been preventing by better upbringings. I'm with Kipchoge on this one.

+1

Exactly. Telling your son that since he *thinks* or *feels * like he is a girl, then he should *become* and can compete against real girls is not only delusional, but very harmful to the boy.

Paul Puma wrote:

Isn't the saying, "“If you sleep with a dog, you will surely wake up with fleas”?

If you sleep with a dead dog, you will surely wake up with fleas

Yeah says the guy whose probably been on EPO since his teenage years... I guess only time will tell, if he dies at the age of 45 then we will know if he was doping or not

Rick Cheney wrote:

Kipchoge better watch his mouth before the gold old U.S. of A decides to do a little regime change in Kenya!

LOL! This gave me a good laugh. Great Post!!

So the baby boom was 1946-1964. Kipchoge is not a baby boomer.

Western culture is definitely breaking, we've lost our sense of community, our connection to nature. Our dominant religion is consumerism and our God is money and it's disciples are Bezos, Musk, Trump, Pelosi, Bloomberg, Biden etc etc. We can't get our kids off their ipads or youtube. We have zero empathy for people who aren't like us. We've stopped caring about what really matters and spend too much time arguing about stuff that doesn't really matter.

Exactly. Telling your son that since he *thinks* or *feels * like he is a girl, then he should *become* and can compete against real girls is not only delusional, but very harmful to the boy.

Also very harmful to the girls he'd be competing against

foxymoron wrote:

Western culture is definitely breaking, we've lost our sense of community, our connection to nature. Our dominant religion is consumerism and our God is money and it's disciples are Bezos, Musk, Trump, Pelosi, Bloomberg, Biden etc etc. We can't get our kids off their ipads or youtube. We have zero empathy for people who aren't like us. We've stopped caring about what really matters and spend too much time arguing about stuff that doesn't really matter.

Yep, you nailed it. Back in the olden days, we Westerners were close to nature and had a sense of community. We also had a sense of liking to own slaves, and not letting women or "coloreds" vote, and all sorts of other wholesome things. The past was a long continuum of great awesomeness, until these modern kids with their electronic devices came along.

Said I Loved You... But I Lied wrote:

Looks remarkably similar to Bill Cosby's old respectability politics harangues back when he was a free man. Sorta makes me wonder what skeletons are in Kipchoge's closet, as guilty dogs bark first.

Cosby is out. I think.

A person, who ran at the Juniors WC being 25 years old, is now a spokesperson for Nike "cheater shoes" and also the main character of that INEOS 2:00 atrocity.

Teaching others on values. Thanks, but no thanks.

Humble, likeable cheater, just like certain Bernard L.

he's still my running hero wrote:

https://www.capitalfm.co.ke/sports/2022/01/19/take-fight-against-gbv-to-athletics-camps-kipchoge-urges/

Kipchoge also noted that 95 percent of parents have failed to guide their children in matters morality.

“I am afraid to say that the society is rotten. There is no order these days. Parents have also neglected their children and sportsmen and women lack morality.”

Kipchoge reckons that 50 percent of the sporting fraternity lacks moral values which impacts negatively on them.

“If you sleep with a dog, you will surely wake up with flies,” Kipchoge went on in reference to wanton gender related violence against women.

Based

“Parents have also neglected their children...”

Trust him, he has firsthand experience.

bong rip wrote:

probably been on EPO since his teenage years...

if he dies at the age of 45 then we will know if he was doping

so shouldn't he be long dead by now?

Why does this guy think that taking copious amounts of EPO for three decades and being a better responder to it than just about any other Kenyan or Ethiopian alive, gives him the right to preach about morality or how to live life? You don't here Bekele moralizing every day or claiming to be the new Buddha.

Flagpole wrote:

Couple of things:

1) Ok Boomer? Who's the Boomer? Certainly not Kipchoge.

2) Kipchoge and most people, including pretty much all the respondents on this thread so far, don't understand what "morals" means. Moral values are personal values that someone holds. A person may have the "moral values" that it is unacceptable to wear flip flops anywhere other than at the beach. What word/phrase he means is either "ethical" OR "Religious morals" (or some other qualifier before the word "morals").

Morals

"a person's standards of behavior or beliefs concerning what is and is not acceptable for them to do."

Way to completed sidestep the substance of what he said.

Wise Man...

Iron Bars wrote:

He is correct. You can thank social media for accelerating the decline.

Does social media encourage bad behavior or has it highlighted bad behavior that has always existed? Just now everything goes viral in seconds.

He's right.