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Children of the 21st century
By Kacy Carr
The good old days as I remember them were just that, the
good old days.
Children of the 21st century
Playing hopscotch hide and seek even a game of rounders
was all in a day's fun for a thirteen year old in the good
old days. Of course all good things come to an end when
called in against your will and ordered up the stairs to
wash behind your ears before bed, while the children of
the 21st century slap on war paint to disguise their
identities for approval into many disco night clubs. .
Succeeding in their mission to gain those added years they
would then dance and party till dawn, while I remember
back to my navy blue knickers and white vest hanging up to
dry in front of an open coal fire for school the next
morning.
The nature and attitude of the Children of the 21st
century is so different from the days long gone. Children
today have a lifestyle not a childhood, whose fault is
that I ask. Where do the answers lie?
Remembering back to the words of Mother in the good old
days, "There is your dinner"! Now it is "what you would
like for dinner"? Another household saying of Mum's was
"I can not afford that". Twenty first century mums can by
doing an extra shift at work.
And in the in the good old days the threats cast upon us
from Mother, threats like, are you looking for a good
hiding, No I was not looking for a good hiding, but you
never dared to answer back unless of course you were
looking for another clout. Nowadays it is the other way
round, where a great many Mothers live under threat from
their own flesh and blood.
"Where do the answers lie" I ask myself once again.
Drinking was strictly for the adults in the good old days
not for teens on the street corner who are not long out of
nappies. Drugs in the good old days were prescribed by a
Doctor not a dealer, the only dealer we knew of in those
days were the ones who dealt the cards in a game of snap.
Will the Children of the 21st Century ever learn? Yes
given the right teacher, that being Mummy and Daddy, then
as your star pupil begins to grow up he learns to respect
his/her elders, that now being Mum or Dad.
Giving into your children's needs and wants is not helping
them for the big bad world out there, teach them to stand
on their own two feet and if that means going back to the
good old days then so be it. Which isn't so bad just to
hear the laughter of children growing up in their own
time.
I think we all know where the answer lie for why the
Children of the 21st century don't laugh any more.
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