Posted on 12/09/2004 4:43:40 AM PST by billorites
Finally! Someone finally has the guts to say it!
Boy is this right on.......We have a nation ( exception being our young people serving in Iraq) of whining babies, that want every little (or big) bump in the road smoothed out by someone else. The very thought of having to sacrifice or work a problem out on their own is emotionally crippling.
There is way too much of that for me to read, but I agree with what I did read. The latest craze for "teaching" children to "read" by offering them electronic books that sound out words FOR them, and the mothers who sit with their babies encouraging them to push buttons -- rather than READING to their babies -- is a very said sight.
Finish Later
That's a whole lot of words to say "Kids are whiny these days." :D
I have two full time jobs and work 14 hours a day. Unless I can read it on the bus, I don't have time to read anything that long.
But I'd like to print it out and read it on the plane.
Great read....makes me want to put a copy of this on the windshield of every car with a 'baby-on-board' sticker.
Both of my girls are voracious readers, and bless me, conservative.
read later
That is so true. Also, parents who read a lot tend to have children who do. The children see their parents reading frequently and they're curious. Little ones like to emulate the grown-ups.
this article, what I read anyway, reminds me of a conversation that I had with my favorite nun some 15 years ago. She spoke of how young people know nothing of sacrifice and problem solving and so are finding their way to antidepressants or suicide. I work in an elementary school and I constantly see parents at play and meals with their children..some would chew the food for their kids if possible..and want to know EVERYTHING their child does..what they ate, who they like, what they play..sad.
It gets worse than all this, actually.
Not only are kids and young adults getting wimpier, but those who had lives less sugar-coated now have the problem. We are called "insensitive", "mean-spirited", "racist", "misogynistic", "everything-o-phobic", etc etc.
In another time better appellations would have been strength, fortitude, constitution, drive to succeed and unwillingness to quit; today those traits mean we're sick in some way.
If this article truly represents a majority of American youth, can we ever have a victory won "on the playing fields of Eton"?
BTTT
Great article.
The tv/movie gold standard parent does whatever it takes to be a the kids little league/ soccer game/school play.
I’m 38 and my parents only occasionally attended my little game games and it didn’t bother me a bit. In fact, I like being with my friends and away from parental authority. It was fun riding to practice with my friends and then getting candy and comic books afterward.
Countless summer Saturdays, I would say so-long to my parents to go ride bikes/ hang out/ play kick-ball with my friends and not return until afternoon.
Sadly, those days are gone. Suburban kids today live in Clorox wiped, side airbag equipped, wheat free, play date scheduled safety bubble.
So true!
I don't have children (yet) but this is how my mother raised me. I was surprised when I went to my little friends' houses and they didn't read or play word games with their moms.
Now when I buy books, I have an eye not only to what I want/need to read, but what I think I should have for young 'uns to read someday.
I just read the whole thing, and a great read it was. Thanks for posting. Big bump!
"We learn through experience and we learn through bad experiences.
I must be one of the smartest people in the world.
The guy's on the money.
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