Kids ARE our basic link to everything GOOD about this whole experiment.
Too bad we get in their way.

I love the kiddos..I'd rather hang with them then those my age. These kids are sharp, brilliant, alive...their only cynical because the world is more cynical.

Unashamedly quoting myself......to agree with "The Lady"

Quoted for truth

Adults seem to think that they are to teach the youth...if we would shut up and listen we may be fascinated by what they are able to teach us...I've learned more from my sons than I could ever 'teach' them in a million life times.

Yes, too bad WE stifle and oppress them!

the teacher might learn from the student but it is the teachers JOB to teach


people by interacting with each other will undoubtedly learn from each other, a doctor has to learn from a patient what their symptoms are but the doctors job is to SHOW the patient what those symptoms mean and how to manage them,

there is something to why an adult is an adult, we grow as parents but we are also there to assist in helping our child grow from an infant into an adult themself by teaching and guiding them,,most of what my child 'teaches' me, I already experienced and learned in my own childhood experience,

we have to be in their way because babies rarely come out just knowing which paths to take or understanding why

I always had a theory that if parents didn't teach what was wrong before the child experienced it that a lifetime of proper ethics and morals would take grasp and the child wouldn't even bother wasting their time. Of course parents are the first to teach what is wrong before the child has a chance to ask, thus the child becomes interested in this 'wrong' and seeks to see what it is about.

Damn parents, always getting in the way. Haha.

When I was young...there was this odd little thing called going OUTSIDE to play.

These days, half of the kids would probably burst into flames if they were exposed to sunlight.

I think today's children are soft. They aren't allowed to hurt themselves anymore. Helmets, knee and elbow pads, no one has bottle rocket wars anymore. I can't remember the last time I saw a youngster climb a tree. Even the skateboards are two to three times as wide as the ones we had.

No one tells their child to "stand up to that bully," they have special "meetings" at school. I doubt a one of them has been "corrected" by a stranger, unlike when we were kids and anyone could "discipline" an unruly child.

However, I don't believe it is the fault of the children. It is the parents that have become whining cry babies. Calling lawyers first, and talking to other parents second. I think the older generations parents actually cared more about the "future" of their children as modern parents only seem to care about the "now."

smarter

They lost the outdoor, wild banshee gene ... (the world got so dangerous, we locked them inside)


Now? They schedule in social outtings and we call them "play dates" ...


They have the techno~geekoid gene as birth rite ...


As if they are a very elemental part of the techtronics ...


... 'S kinda schpooky their techno savvy, wizardo~like ...

... 'S kinda schpooky their techno savvy, wizardo~like ...

I often wonder how they do that

They are losing the real meaning of human interaction and being. My neighbor kids are afraid of me, they were real friendly when they moved in. The mother is isolated and very dark looking every time I see her. I wave, smile, she just looks. Now she has said whatever, and the older girl (10) is getting like that, closing up. Never had a problem getting along with kids or animals. The parents are afraid and they're spreading it to the children.

Right? ... ... They just walk up to the gadgets, sans directions, and OWN 'em!!!

I'm convinced it is a 100th monkey gene pool kinda thang!

Of course parents are to "teach" young children..is not who I'm referring to. We can still learn from the very young ones while we "teach" them.

Everyone can learn from anyone, what not to do, what to do. I just think that the typical approach of parenting now to teach the bad before they have a chance to ask about it is the incorrect method to follow...but it is just a theory.

I would be hard pressed to say. Today's kids' lives I look at from the outside. In my kiddie days I looked at my life from the inside.

I think the vistas show more of a difference than there actually is, and that is entirely explicable from the vantage points.

So I am not going to comment if you want the truth.

I don't know...I'm not around the little ones anymore and not sure how they do it..parenting.
I hope I did it (parenting) right. My boys are pretty awesome so I must not have screwed up to bad.
The "youth" in the teens 20's......I dig em!

I find this Thread amusing somehow ^^


I dont much understand people around my age.....cant really anwser anything...