[Ammi]

Originally Posted by the truth

its failing miserably...kids don't play , kids are often obese and unhealthy now, in some cases often unhappy and lonely too. over exposed to everything they don't get much childhood anymore, prom kings and queens for 7 year olds, image over substance has been the way for years now....everyone MUST tow the party line or get left out in the cold....and guess what lies ahead for them ? decades of debts , debts built up by the same do gooders that ruined childhood in the first place

...hmmm, I'm thinking about this..children do still play though, truth..at school I mean as well as out of school..in many schools they still play traditional type games like hopscotch, tag games etc..just the type of games that I would have played as a child...I think there is more caution and awareness of the health and safety thing that has been placed on schools..but I think 'back in the day', if a child was hurt and sometimes quite seriously, there wasn't so much of an awareness of...'oh I will sue you now, you allowed my child to be harmed in your care..'...but more...'well, children will be children ..'..obviously that's something that has to be balanced as well but isn't that a good thing..to take more precautions to prevent a child from being harmed...

..also prom queens/kings etc has always been a thing, it's just with media etc and reality programmes it probably seems much more but than before but it's always been there..I think that lots of things seem much more just because there was not the same TV/media/internet etc as there was 'back in the day..'....