I have no kids, so I am always completely shocked when I hear things 1. There are no simple birthday parties anymore. I remember having birthday parties outside with a BBQ and picnic tables. Now every kid's birthday party is a 25-kid extravaganza. Chucky cheese, Build a bear, 25 to 50 bucks a kid. Crazy!
2. As a kid, my only planned activity was Little League, everything else was inside the school. Every day during the summer we chose up sides and had a baseball game. There were none of the incredible amounts of forced activities that these kids endure today. When does a kid have time to be a kid? Soccer, Karate, Dance, gymnastics, Little League, Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts. Their schedules exhaust me just looking at them. I don't see gangs of kids playing baseball or kickball anymore. I guess everything has to be a playdate. 3. Kids have designer pocketbooks, designer clothes, cell phones, computers, video games and all without having to do anything for it. 4. Kids don't get jobs. I remember having to pull strings to get a $4.10 / hr job during the summer after my HS graduation. Now the labor force is taken up by illegal immigrants because the HS kids don't need to work. 5. Many kids now get brand new cars when they start driving. In my cousin's development you see 17 yo kids driving brand new BMWs, Mercedes and Porsches. 6. The senior prom now involves limo sines, $2000 dresses, and weekends in the hamptons. 7. We had interns coming into the Army for the summer. One kid used to sleep at his desk. Could you imagine sleeping at your desk? We have over-indulged our kids to a point where they're going to be useless. --- Stephen the Cook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It's not the tool my friend it's the agenda. I was > talking to educators > this morning at different times. One is a PhD in > the school of business, > Marketing and the other in the Earthquake Center, no > sure what school that > is a part of? > > Both were talking about the lack of caring by the > youth today. All the > students want is the diploma without putting in the > work required to > actually do it. The marketing educator was pretty > vocal about the total > lack of training that the students have today vs. > ten and twenty years ago. > He is retiring at the end of this semester. > > The earthquake perspective was a little different. > He grew up in the do it > yourself electronics age. Where you got parts and > you put them together, > Realistic ring a bell anyone? His point was that > the imagination is stifled > by the over programmed parents with soccer practice > to drive through food > then on to scouts. That our youth's minds were not > allowed to develop > interests outside of the parents programming. Model > rockets or remote > control airplanes are not "team" oriented so they > are not seeing the #s > today like they did 20 years ago. > > So when you say itÂ’s a computer and the OS / > Programs I have to say no. > It's the society. We are lazy living at the top of > the heap. Everything > has to be given to our kids to prove that they will > have it better then we > did. I just think that its 'ADD' for adults. They > can't keep their > attention on their kids so they farm that out to > anyone they can today. > > > Stephen Russell > DBA / .Net Developer > > Memphis TN 38115 > 901.246-0159 > > "A good way to judge people is by observing how they > treat those who can do > them absolutely no good." > ---Unknown > > http://spaces.msn.com/members/srussell/ > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > Of Ed Leafe > Sent: Sunday, March 11, 2007 8:26 PM > To: ProFox Mailing List > Subject: [OT] Shift > > I wasn't sure if this was [OT] or [NF], but just to > be safe... > > Watch this text-only video, and then re-consider > the short-sighted > fools who think that we should be training our > school kids on PowerPoint and > Windows and Excel. > > http://www.glumbert.com/media/shift > > We should be teaching them how to think, and how to > solve problems. > > Not how to use tools that, if not already obsolete, > will be obsolete soon > enough. > > -- Ed Leafe > -- http://leafe.com > -- http://dabodev.com > > > > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
