THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN NOW AND THEN

In the "good ol' days" parents used to send their children outside to play when they got under foot and became annoying.
Children used to play all over the neighborhood and return home only when it was dinner time.
Children who were bored or had to much energy were given chores to do, the premise being idle hands breed mischief, and therefore mischief was kept in check by exhausting the child.
Chores were also given as a way to teach the child that no one gets a free ride in this world.
Chores taught them ethics, taught them that by working hard they could accomplish many things. Chores gave them a sense of pride in themselves.
Playing hard and working hard kept the children out of trouble.

But as I said...those were the good ol' days!
Times have certainly changed.

Today children cannot run the neighborhoods as they once did because it is simply not safe for them.
This automatically puts them under foot of the parents, and playtime has been replaced by television and video games.
Their little minds and bodies have become somewhat atrophied and less necessary than they once were.
Another effect of being "home bound" is the frazzeled nerves of parents, who instead of taking the time to stimulate their childs brain have instead demanded the creation of so-called diseases
(ADD & ADHD) and have demanded medication in which to combat it. Parents in essence have medicated their children in order to make their own lives more tolerable!!!

A child naturally has a short attention span, and exsist in a hyperactive state of being. They go from one interest to another in quick succesion, and because of this they stimulate their imaginations, they stimulate their brains, which in and of itself stimulates their brain capacity and learning abilities.

But in todays world parents seeking a way to "calm" and control the child, drug companies seeking a way to profit from it, and doctors seeking a way to explain what is "abnormal" about normal behavior, have labeled this inate and natural part of a child's being a "disease".

"Chores" is also becoming and extinct word in the vocabulary of children.
They no longer believe they have to earn what they get. These days more and more children believe they deserve everything for doing nothing.
This translates into many of them taking what belongs to others when they get big enough to do so.
This also translates into one more thing a child does NOT have to keep their little brains and bodies busy these days.
Children who have no purpose and who have nothing in their little lives to be proud of WILL, in the end, wreak havoc upon society.
The state of the world today proves my postion on this.

I do not have to explain the detrimental effect this has had on our society as a whole. All you have to do is look around you.
Think about how it was in your childhood. Think about how it was in your parents childhood. The difference between then and now is like night and day!!!

The relatively docile reaction to perverts who prey on kids, the lack of a good work ethic, the belief in being "owed" something for doing absolutely nothing, and the mind numbing boredom of childhood has created a world that would be completely unrecognizable to our ancestors.

Shame on us all!!!