August 22, 2008 / 08:55
Very nice piece. I agree with it all. Although I have got to ask. who is raising these "bubble kids" The "people who learned to deal with it all". Congratulations? You raised a generation of pussies. You can't take a shit and then complain that it stinks.
August 22, 2008 / 09:13
Good stuff, but it didn’t even mention Blood Brothers, anyone remember that?
August 22, 2008 / 09:17
Curtis has a point. It is the very same people grew up without the insanity of the bubble wrap generation that are raising the bubble wrap generation. This nannyism that our society is increasingly embracing is going to bite us on the Ass sooner or later if it hasn't already.
August 22, 2008 / 09:48
Good point Chris, why is that generation now raising a bunch of bubble wrapped, fat, pussies?
The credit should go to the generation before that survived a world war and then let kids be kids.
August 22, 2008 / 09:53
Actually on second thought, I'm stretchign it a bit. The Boomers were ok, they raised my generation, and we weren't bubble wrapped... Gen X'ers are raising the pussies? Shit...
August 22, 2008 / 10:36
This is a great topic. I would like to break it down further – by kids born in the 1980s and the post 1990 kids.
To me it seems the 1980 kids are completely useless – not all but most of them. This generation was raised by those irradiating boomers (born in the 50s) who think their kids could do no wrong. They let their kids get away with everything and gave them every toy and we’re now seeing the results of it (increasing teen pregnancy, alarming teen STD rates, scary rates of youth crime – not just from the jane/finch crowd but everywhere). Congrats boomer parent!!!
The next group is a more of a reaction to the aforementioned child rearing. Parents today (in their 30s and 40s) feel the need to overprotect their kids because of the increased crime, teen sex, etc. Are they over doing it – yes, but look at what the alternative is?
It aint easy being a parent but I can’t believe so many people have failed at this vital task. Yes most boomers have 2 cars parked in the drive way, 3 TVs and a yearly vacation to Florida or the Caribbean but look at the offspring they have created??? Well done, eh?
August 22, 2008 / 14:01
Well i can honestly say im one of these kids this emails talks about.
And now as a parent, I can honestly say it is easy!, Yes there are times when my brain has to think a little, with a little trust and faith, I believe in my 11 year old son.
Although the city of Sudbury has a bike helmet law, I as a parent give my son the choice. I never once after hundreds of wipe outs ever fell on my head. I have scars on my hands and kness but not my head.
I pretty much tell my son he has to play sports and has come to love them, house league is fine just get out side. Video games are a treat for a rainy day. And when the sun is shinning I dont want to see you untill supper time.
We travel and play as a family, we talk and cry as a family and we play hard as a family. I might have 2 cars in the yard and 99 channels but very little time using them. I dont feel the need to over protect my child and if he screws up and the law comes knocking, well then man up and take your medicine.
I know im doing the right thing because he tells me he loves me and thats all that matters!
Cheers!
August 22, 2008 / 20:26
I'm still stinging from getting cut by a Little League team.
August 22, 2008 / 22:35
I bought both my boys wrist rocket sling shots....I bet most kids don't even know what they are. Get's them away from the TV....Stay tuned......
August 23, 2008 / 08:46
The Emanuel Jaques story did alot to shake up the innocence of youth for me and alot of other Torontonians. I was around the same age as Emanuel at the time and can remember the effect that the incident had on me, it felt like the world had changed somehow and nothing again would be quite the same.
August 23, 2008 / 09:13
Just what would you call yourself Argue? Part of the Pepsi Generation? Their the real piece of work!!!
August 23, 2008 / 12:50
Have to agree with Ostler, that was when Toronto lost it's innocence and my parents really became protective. Hell we used to ride the subway at about 11 years old but after that not a chance.
August 24, 2008 / 09:34
The author left out the number one winter sport in my neighbourhood...
BUMPER HITCHING!!
August 25, 2008 / 09:25
Mike: Pepsi generation??? Not sure what that is……
I was born in the late 60s. I’m happy to say I’m not a boomer nor a gen y’er.
August 25, 2008 / 13:25
Since moving here to the US, I have mentioned to people that when I was young in the winter, in the schoolyard we played hockey. We did it by kicking a sponge puck with our feet. Does anything like this happen at the playground anymore?
August 25, 2008 / 23:15
Have to agree with ostler, Bumper hitching was huge where I grew up (west island - Montreal in the late sixties, early seventies). I remember five of us kids stopping a Volkswagen beetle in its tracks as it attempted to climb a hill.
In the winter we were either at the local outdoor rink or playing road hockey with a frozen tennis ball.
In class we would take a standard pencil with an eraser end, push a thumbtack
into the eraser, then rub the thumbtacked eraser end of the pencil on the desk top until the metal tack heated up, then we poked the buddy sitting next to us in the arm.
Awe, those were the days!
The molly coddled kids today have no imagination.
August 27, 2008 / 19:00
Lawyers, political correctness, tv shows like Oprah are some of the reasons that times have changed. Not to mention the shytty judges and parole boards. Nowadays, if you scold the neigbours kid, you face many potential reprocussions. If I got caught goofing off by the dad next door, my folks were cool if he wacked my ass or scolded me and he was cool with it if my dad did the same with one of his kids. The backyard fences were 4'wire, not 8' wooden partitions. So many reasons and I can't help but think that they all kind of stem from the changes brought in by P.E.T.
November 24, 2008 / 15:24
I agree much Rick B.... However most people still haven't grown up, instead of "goths" and "preps" and "jocks" etc, we now have "conservatives" and "liberals"... And of coarse the apathetic folks who are so glued to their TV or their weed that they wouldn't notice their house burning down around them. Spoiled kids from yester generations are now raising and spoiling new generations just like them, but perhaps a little bit worse. Cultural conditioning plays a big part in this.... We live now in a society where, under "liberal" and "conservative" cliques, people continue to divide themselves further, into male or female, black, white, brown, etc, "christian", "jewish", "atheist", "muslim", "pagan", budhist", etc, so on and so on..... And everyone's (adults I mean) pointing fingers and blaming out problems on each other and nobody takes personal responsibility for themselves...
Anything they or their hand-picked group leader (which the media always provides) does is "above criticism" and if you criticise, your taken as not only criticizing a person, but as slandering an entire group of people. (yeah thanx a lot PCness).
So everyone wants special rights at someone else's expense, nobody wants to work on themselves, nobody can look at themselves critically and individualistically. And so society is like high school, divided into cliques who can't even attempt to compromise like mature adults. All of this is cultural conditioning....
I'll tell ya, some people might call me a "crazy conspiracy theorist", but it's not a theory if you can prove it.... I remember in the 80's it was actually cool to question authority, and to have a cynical approach to lawyers and politicians and greedy business men and snake oil salesmen.
November 24, 2008 / 15:25
I agree much Rick B.... However most people still haven't grown up, instead of "goths" and "preps" and "jocks" etc, we now have "conservatives" and "liberals"... And of coarse the apathetic folks who are so glued to their TV or their weed that they wouldn't notice their house burning down around them. Spoiled kids from yester generations are now raising and spoiling new generations just like them, but perhaps a little bit worse. Cultural conditioning plays a big part in this.... We live now in a society where, under "liberal" and "conservative" cliques, people continue to divide themselves further, into male or female, black, white, brown, etc, "christian", "jewish", "atheist", "muslim", "pagan", budhist", etc, so on and so on..... And everyone's (adults I mean) pointing fingers and blaming out problems on each other and nobody takes personal responsibility for themselves...
Anything they or their hand-picked group leader (which the media always provides) does is "above criticism" and if you criticise, your taken as not only criticizing a person, but as slandering an entire group of people. (yeah thanx a lot PCness).
So everyone wants special rights at someone else's expense, nobody wants to work on themselves, nobody can look at themselves critically and individualistically. And so society is like high school, divided into cliques who can't even attempt to compromise like mature adults. All of this is cultural conditioning....
I'll tell ya, some people might call me a "crazy conspiracy theorist", but it's not a theory if you can prove it.... I remember in the 80's it was actually cool to question authority, and to have a cynical approach to lawyers and politicians and greedy business men and snake oil salesmen.
November 24, 2008 / 15:32
By the way, I just noticed this was a Canadian forum... I'm not Canadian I am American. But those are merely imaginary lines someone drew for business purposes, and with the NAU on it's way in we'll soon be dictated too all alike a a damn business monopoly...
Hell, a wolf is only called a wolf because someone decided to call it a wolf. That's an analogy you can pretty much apply to the entire world around you from language to money, everything.... It's sad to see today's generation grow older, but never wiser.
I received the e-mail from neighbour John, who got it from his father. A good read for today's parents who like to bubble-wrap their kids.
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