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Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington
My perception of the children of today(and I may be wide of the mark, seeing as my own daughter is in her 40's - Sorry Nicola)is that they want everything yesterday....and they want designer stuff.......everything has to be bigger(or in some cases) such as technology, smaller, more 'now' and they compete with friends who seem to have everything....they are more influenced by advertisements and consumerism.
Parenting is getting harder and harder.......with more pressures being placed on parents and folk giving parents bad press. Very unhelpful.
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I'm with you Margaret and I do believe that the world has become obsessionally materialistic but I do think that the parents have to take responsibility for how their kids turn out.
My family were hard up and one of my parents was always out working while the other looked after us at home. They couldn't afford the latest gear and we knew it but what they gave us in abundance was
time.
If more people turned round to children and explained that real life is not like an episode
of Hannah Montana then we might not have the 'want it now' culture that we're raising.
I got a paper round at 12 coupled with a labouring job after school at a local nursery and it taught me the value of money. That is the root cause of many problems as things are too readily available without having been earned.
My wife and I live by the principle of 'if we haven't got the money we can't afford it' and it's served us both pretty well for a combined total of 81 years.