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Doc wrote:
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there is actually some really interesting research being done by a lady at Stanford (forget the name) about how kids are less resourceful, have worse problem-solving skills, social relations, etc. then they used to. She attributes it to the fact that adults put kids in bubbles and that nearly all their interactions are adult driven.
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I sure wish I was working on that project! I have the same gut feeling but, of course, nothing to substantiate it. Or refute it, for that matter.
Apparently, we're also destroying kids' ability to empathize.
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2...052610.php
Just great.
In case we haven't done enough damage, ourselves, the second half of the 21st century is going to be dominated by sociopaths.
I took the test. I scored in the "Big Softy" category.
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My son's junior yearbook features a 2-page spread of kids with their expensive, late-model cars in the school parking lot. I thought I would barf when I saw that. I know a number of the kids featured, and they live very close to the school and the parents purchased the cars for them. Two kids were hit by cars in the school lot last year, both had minor injuries but it doesn't help that so many drive to school when they are still at the age when they drive like idiots. Why are they celebrating materialism and laziness? I don't get it.
Nothing in the yearbook about whether anybody worked to earn the car (they didn't,) or even pay for the gas and insurance, or if they have to drive because they live many miles from the school with a single parent who leaves for work at 6 AM and they have to get themselves to after school jobs or activities.
My kids walk to their middle and high schools, which are just over a mile away, it's a good hilly brisk walk. If it's pouring cold rain they can ride the bus. No way in h ell would we buy them their own cars, they'll have to earn that if they want it.
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I would like to see some current data that supports the "no more crimes today... than yesteryear" theory.
I'm not sure that's true.
And given the number of children that go missing each year, I don't subscribe to the "let nature cull the weak and resourceless" theory.
What I'd *prefer* to see is that gaggle of parents *walking* their kids to school.
Also, may kids are "out of district" kids and can't walk to school.
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Apparently, we're also destroying kids' ability to empathize.
In case we haven't done enough damage, ourselves, the second half of the 21st century is going to be dominated by sociopaths.
I've come to those conclusions long ago, but they were based less on studied data and more empirical knowledge.
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Quoting Ramd'd
"I would like to see some current data that supports the "no more crimes today... than yesteryear" theory."
That's pretty easy to find online. Violent crime in the US has decreased dramatically since the 1970's, when most of us grew up. So we were raised to fear the inner cities, which in many cases were ground zero for the crack epidemic and other social conditions that police didn't know how to handle. Things have changed, but I think many of us are stuck in that mentality.
Also, were missing kids are concerned, the whole concept of "family abductions" exploded in the divorce epidemic and custody wars era, and that accounts for the vast majority of missing kids. Stranger abduction, especially abduction that leads to murder, is extremely rare, though even one case is too many, of course.
Here's some recent FBI stats on the decline, just for the past few years. Again, you can find info on this online.
http://jurist.org/paperchase/2010/05/us-...ar-fbi.php
We and our children live in a relatively safe society, we just don't know it.
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Grace62 wrote:
My son's junior yearbook features a 2-page spread of kids with their expensive, late-model cars in the school parking lot. I thought I would barf when I saw that. I know a number of the kids featured, and they live very close to the school and the parents purchased the cars for them. Two kids were hit by cars in the school lot last year, both had minor injuries but it doesn't help that so many drive to school when they are still at the age when they drive like idiots. Why are they celebrating materialism and laziness? I don't get it.
Nothing in the yearbook about whether anybody worked to earn the car (they didn't,) or even pay for the gas and insurance, or if they have to drive because they live many miles from the school with a single parent who leaves for work at 6 AM and they have to get themselves to after school jobs or activities.
My kids walk to their middle and high schools, which are just over a mile away, it's a good hilly brisk walk. If it's pouring cold rain they can ride the bus. No way in h ell would we buy them their own cars, they'll have to earn that if they want it.
My son drove a car to high school that made 2 years after he was born. I drove one that
made 5 years after I was born.
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Grateful11 wrote: My son drove a car to high school that made 2 years after he was born. I drove one that
made 5 years after I was born.
My son and his car were born the same year, although he didn't drive it to school. We lived only three blocks away if he walked, but he had to drive almost a half mile to get to the entrance to the student parking lot. Even he acknowledged how stupid driving was. The bottom line was that he could leave later in the morning and get home earlier in the afternoon if he walked than he could if he drove. He walked.
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Grace62 wrote:
My son's junior yearbook features a 2-page spread of kids with their expensive, late-model cars in the school parking lot.
my parents busted there arses to send me to a private High School. We were definitely on the left side of the income bell curve...the cover of my sophomore yearbook was a guy having a picnic on the quad with some hot chick with his dad's ferrari parked nearby. The cover said "success". I knew it was messed up even back then..
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