I was going to do a post on being a child in today’s socialist nightmare when I came across this post at Counting Cats in Zanzibar. It says a lot more, and a lot better, than I was going to about the way our children are being treated by society.
I would hate to be a kid growing up today. I would be in jail now for the things I did growing up. From fishing where I shouldn’t have been, scrumping where I definitely shouldn’t have been and shooting, an air rifle, where I shouldn’t have been just for starters. Even my late teens was full of things that would get you arrested now from going 5mph over the speed limit and doing stupid things on motorbikes, Book him Danno. It’s a wonder most of us lived to our current ages.
Only last week I was in the park when a gang of youths turned up, they must have been 15 to 17 years old, they took over the big swings and the large climbing frame and they were noisy and laughing, the bastards. You could see most of the parents were frightened of them. Only thing was the youngsters were not. They went up to the climbing frame when they were on it and started climbing. The youths moved to another part of the park and sat down while the kids were on the frame. No problem at all but the parents were clearly spooked. The media does that for you with all the horror stories. Just normal noisy teenagers out for a bit of fun away from home and computer games.
The plod here isn’t too bad and they just ignore them on their travels unless something is reported or they see or hear something they don’t like. I’ve seen plod talking to youths but there never seems to be any trouble where I am. I know that’s not always the case in other areas.
Too young to do what they want and too old to be entertained safely at home. Strangers think you are out to hurt them because you are noisy and there is nowhere really for you to be. Now that I think about it that was what it was like when I was that age. I turned out OK according to the prison psychiatrist, only joking, and went on to get a good job and contributing to society. So I have no doubt these will also.
Even so. It’s not a good time to be a teenager in the UK where an incident with an apple core being left on a bench can give you a record for life and the ability to fail your CRB which you need for almost everything now.
Growing up today
I was going to do a post on being a child in today’s socialist nightmare when I came across this post at Counting Cats in Zanzibar. It says a lot more, and a lot better, than I was going to about the way our children are being treated by society.
I would hate to be a kid growing up today. I would be in jail now for the things I did growing up. From fishing where I shouldn’t have been, scrumping where I definitely shouldn’t have been and shooting, an air rifle, where I shouldn’t have been just for starters. Even my late teens was full of things that would get you arrested now from going 5mph over the speed limit and doing stupid things on motorbikes, Book him Danno. It’s a wonder most of us lived to our current ages.
Only last week I was in the park when a gang of youths turned up, they must have been 15 to 17 years old, they took over the big swings and the large climbing frame and they were noisy and laughing, the bastards. You could see most of the parents were frightened of them. Only thing was the youngsters were not. They went up to the climbing frame when they were on it and started climbing. The youths moved to another part of the park and sat down while the kids were on the frame. No problem at all but the parents were clearly spooked. The media does that for you with all the horror stories. Just normal noisy teenagers out for a bit of fun away from home and computer games.
The plod here isn’t too bad and they just ignore them on their travels unless something is reported or they see or hear something they don’t like. I’ve seen plod talking to youths but there never seems to be any trouble where I am. I know that’s not always the case in other areas.
Too young to do what they want and too old to be entertained safely at home. Strangers think you are out to hurt them because you are noisy and there is nowhere really for you to be. Now that I think about it that was what it was like when I was that age. I turned out OK according to the prison psychiatrist, only joking, and went on to get a good job and contributing to society. So I have no doubt these will also.
Even so. It’s not a good time to be a teenager in the UK where an incident with an apple core being left on a bench can give you a record for life and the ability to fail your CRB which you need for almost everything now.