This is what they called the strawberry generation.bgd wrote:On my walk this morning I saw a maid taking a boy to school on the back of a bicycle. She was a tiny dot, he about 14 and twice her size. Anywhere else he would have been laughed out of the playground. Anywhere but here.
I guess in a few years NS will help straighten him out. I don't have any hope for parents that would let that happen though.
The image was funny but the human story behind it isn't.
Did they go by too fast for you to whip out your smartphone and take a picture?bgd wrote:On my walk this morning I saw a maid taking a boy to school on the back of a bicycle. She was a tiny dot, he about 14 and twice her size. Anywhere else he would have been laughed out of the playground. Anywhere but here.
I guess in a few years NS will help straighten him out. I don't have any hope for parents that would let that happen though.
The image was funny but the human story behind it isn't.
Nope. Very slowly. She was small and he was big.maneo wrote:Did they go by too fast for you to whip out your smartphone and take a picture?
Maybe, maybe not...bgd wrote:I guess in a few years NS will help straighten him out.
IT's no excuse my most of my son's friends (12/13 YO) don't know how to hike, ride a bike, swim, fish, shoot a gun, skin an animal... he knows most of these things thanks to having an expat father. It's no excuse but it's possible only the helper knew how to ride the bike.bgd wrote:On my walk this morning I saw a maid taking a boy to school on the back of a bicycle. She was a tiny dot, he about 14 and twice her size. Anywhere else he would have been laughed out of the playground. Anywhere but here.
I guess in a few years NS will help straighten him out. I don't have any hope for parents that would let that happen though.
The image was funny but the human story behind it isn't.
PNGMK wrote:IT's no excuse my most of my son's friends (12/13 YO) don't know how to hike, ride a bike, swim, fish, shoot a gun, skin an animal... he knows most of these things thanks to having an expat father. It's no excuse but it's possible only the helper knew how to ride the bike.
the trajectory of this list was getting increasingly tame and placid, but then it took an abrupt 180turn after the fishing!!!PNGMK wrote: hike, ride a bike, swim, fish, shoot a gun, skin an animal...
^+1Strong Eagle wrote: I've got some great nieces and nephews and their lives are so much more structured... and limited in access to simply doing things... sports, maybe a camp... but always the ever present electronics.
I don't know if this change is good or bad... but I am glad that I score high on those life skills tests... and I think that lack of experiential activities and skills makes one's focus much narrower.
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