"It's the parents fault!""
"It's social media!"
I was struck by the familiarity of the situation. It's like I was in the 70s when I heard about how "MUSIC!" was making kids do drugs. Or, even today, where my pastor just posted about the evils of porno.
That's an easy fix. With the amount you can get for free on the internet-the numbers don't really add up, but that's just me.
It's always a complaint about kids today and, how, when the current adults were kids, they didn't have these issues.
We make fun of texting, " Whr R U?"
But, really, "Y'all" was a shortened way of saying "you all."
And, really, how far is this:
From this:
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
People will complain, but, rarely, will they accept the changes necessary to keep today's youth out of trouble. The fact is, there are a great many dangers in the world; there always was. But in today's immediate access, those dangers are delicious headlines that are splattered all over the screens and talked about by teachers over the water coolers. Kids hear these dialogues, and aren't really happy to begin with.
The one school shooting is profiled over the lower gun rates. What to people and, especially today's youth hear? But adults can pick and choose. An unformed brain doesn't have that ability and it sucks.
So we yell about the kids.
Do we turn off the media? No. We educate about it. We balance it. Cause they want it.
I mean, look at the picture above.
I love the phrase, "Youth is wasted on the young," and never before has this been more evident. They're missing out on being a kid. We need to put that back, somehow. Change schools from being testing machines and places where learning, even social learning is positive with dances and art, as well as basic skills and access to higher learning for those who want it.
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