A pet peeve of my Step-father’s when I was growing up was this thing they call television or TV. The reason is simple he would say, it was made for watching when all your work and chores and play was done for the day, not all the time. Then he would kick us kids out of the house and make us go play with others. Today, parents don’t do that to their kids, they let the TV, Computer or Video Game System babysit for them. Due to that we now have kids in America who are over weight and mentally behind the world, cause they are not participating in it. Sadly again few parents understand what they are doing to their child and they just keep on doing it.
America’s children need to be smacked once in a while to set them straight also. Now I am not saying beat your child till they behave, no, I am saying there are occasions when a child needs a good smack upside the head to get them going in the right direction. The America we have today is sadly what I call The BIll Cosby Society! The Cosby Show in the 1980’s created an atmosphere of don’t hit your child talk to them. That leads us right where we are today. We went from a society of helping one another to the me society of today in America. In The 1950’s- 1960s and 1970s, we were a all for one and one for all society that would stop and help someone if we could and it worked. We are now the me society and screw you, I come first. The best example of it all is ; Drive down a road anywhere and see a broke down car, and a person stuck. Used to be Americans would stop and help someone change their tire, or give them a lift to a gas station or a phone. Today people drive right by you and don’t even look twice, leaving one to walk to where they need to go. Sadly it’s now a me, me, me society and America has changed and adopted to it.
Folks Video Games and Computers and TVs are all fine forms of entertainment when one has nothing else to do. They are not built in babysitters for your children, nor should they be allowed to be brain drainers, the way they are. Wake up, kids know more about whats on tv and on the internet and how to beat a video game, then they know how to add, subtract, or read why? What wrong with making a kid pick up a book and read ? Nothing! Ah I rant and no one listens the truth be, we are becoming a society of nerds and lost souls who can’t survive without electronic devices to play with. Wake up time is here, you child can’t pass his or hers courses in school and get decent grades, well then they don’t need electronic toys they need books and teaching.
Anyway, away we go with 2011, Welcome to it folks!
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