MMP, shilling pocket money every Tuesday bought me a June & Schoolfriend comic 7d and the "new flavour " crisps, salt & vinegar at 5d, I used to crunch the crisps up and eat tiny bits so I could make them last my entire comic..Soz not a mob rant but my memory of an innocent childhood. My niece at that age had more gadgets than gadgetman, and knew the value of none.
Just reading the postings and stuff about technology and children.
I've a moan about social network sites, which me thinks, have a lot to answer for. Those who own these sites are making millions, yet make few, if any checks on the people who access them and in some cases, I may be very wrong, but it seems anything goes and if you act as a good parent by limiting your childs access at home, children can go and access the net on someone's mobile phone, in the library or at school!
Really worrying, Zoomer. I should think it is unlikely at school, unless things have changed since I retired, because pupils are supervised when using the net.
The filters that are applied by schools and colleges are not foolproof, either. When at college, many moons ago, one of our cohort typed in 'sex' and 'sheep', and got a warning that his search was illegal. So he typed in 'Sheep' and 'Sex', and got taken straight to the 'Love ewe' site. I'll let you work out what that was about!
The internet is a wonderful, dangerous place, with every kind of extreme, good and bad. Our children are in moral danger of a kind my generation never dreamed of and we have to protect them. However, all kids get up to mischief and flout rules and as long as the example and atmosphere at home are (is?) healthy, they will probably be OK. Home is much the biggest influence on them, though they may have a horrible phase of being influenced by the wrong peer group at times. Drugs are the biggest risk because they enslave people. My DIL grew up at a posh public school where a close friend got onto drugs and ended up actually murdering someone while under the influence of drugs. Drink is an increasing problem because really young children do stupid things like fighting and procreating when drunk - and drinnk is easy to get. I'm glad I don't have children to bring up now.
G/G, The worst fear is the fear of fear itself, we could wrap the kids in cotton wool and never let them out of our sight, they would become paranoid, never be streetwise and worst of all never know the excitement of adventure. When my very quiet Granddaughter took her gap year from Uni and went round the world I was reading her computer dairy every night worried to death I need not have she had a wonderful time, came back a much more open and happy person saying she had never seen anything bad. As an 18 year old soldier you learned that jumping at every unexpected happening did not ease anything so you pushed fear aside and got on with what you had to do. Our children are learning from us and each other, schools are very aware of the dangers outside the schools ( mainly mad mothers dropping their kids from 4x4's into the classroom and to h@## with all others) and they do teach the children what to watch out for. It was always so, we may think we had a safer life although children did go missing and murdered, we did not have the wall to wall media back then reporting it all. Children like adventure, they think as we all did they are fireproof it is another way of learning and we have to give them the freedom they at times crave. It is often said and I do not know if it is true that children have most to fear from family and friends of family, how do we tell them that?
Just reading another thread which has prompted my moan. It will not be shared by all, perhaps by no-one else. BBQ's. Why, when the sun comes out, so do the bl..dy BBQ's. Yesterday afternoon/evening, all you could smell was food cooking. Unfortunately, neighbour with yapping dog likes to do fish. It stank the garden out. People complain about bonfires, but I find BBQ's far, far worse. Cannot see the point of them.
It is a different world to the one we grew up in. My daughter now 24 is always reading there are books everywhere. She has to show me how to do things on the computor, dont know what im going to do when she leaves home. at this moment in time it doesnt look very likely so i wont worry yet.I remember as a child going out on our bikes and not coming home for hours and my parents never worried. You cant do that today.
Another moan from yesterday are neighbours children screaming their haeds off all day long. Got so fed up with it i came back indoors, shame when it was such a lovely day
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MMP, shilling pocket money every Tuesday bought me a June & Schoolfriend comic 7d and the "new flavour " crisps, salt & vinegar at 5d, I used to crunch the crisps up and eat tiny bits so I could make them last my entire comic..Soz not a mob rant but my memory of an innocent childhood. My niece at that age had more gadgets than gadgetman, and knew the value of none.
I soooo love crisps.
Just reading the postings and stuff about technology and children.
I've a moan about social network sites, which me thinks, have a lot to answer for. Those who own these sites are making millions, yet make few, if any checks on the people who access them and in some cases, I may be very wrong, but it seems anything goes and if you act as a good parent by limiting your childs access at home, children can go and access the net on someone's mobile phone, in the library or at school!
Really worrying, Zoomer. I should think it is unlikely at school, unless things have changed since I retired, because pupils are supervised when using the net.
The filters that are applied by schools and colleges are not foolproof, either. When at college, many moons ago, one of our cohort typed in 'sex' and 'sheep', and got a warning that his search was illegal. So he typed in 'Sheep' and 'Sex', and got taken straight to the 'Love ewe' site. I'll let you work out what that was about!
GG. It is worrying isn't it.
The internet is a wonderful, dangerous place, with every kind of extreme, good and bad. Our children are in moral danger of a kind my generation never dreamed of and we have to protect them. However, all kids get up to mischief and flout rules and as long as the example and atmosphere at home are (is?) healthy, they will probably be OK. Home is much the biggest influence on them, though they may have a horrible phase of being influenced by the wrong peer group at times. Drugs are the biggest risk because they enslave people. My DIL grew up at a posh public school where a close friend got onto drugs and ended up actually murdering someone while under the influence of drugs. Drink is an increasing problem because really young children do stupid things like fighting and procreating when drunk - and drinnk is easy to get. I'm glad I don't have children to bring up now.
G/G, The worst fear is the fear of fear itself, we could wrap the kids in cotton wool and never let them out of our sight, they would become paranoid, never be streetwise and worst of all never know the excitement of adventure.
When my very quiet Granddaughter took her gap year from Uni and went round the world I was reading her computer dairy every night worried to death I need not have she had a wonderful time, came back a much more open and happy person saying she had never seen anything bad.
As an 18 year old soldier you learned that jumping at every unexpected happening did not ease anything so you pushed fear aside and got on with what you had to do.
Our children are learning from us and each other, schools are very aware of the dangers outside the schools ( mainly mad mothers dropping their kids from 4x4's into the classroom and to h@## with all others) and they do teach the children what to watch out for.
It was always so, we may think we had a safer life although children did go missing and murdered, we did not have the wall to wall media back then reporting it all.
Children like adventure, they think as we all did they are fireproof it is another way of learning and we have to give them the freedom they at times crave.
It is often said and I do not know if it is true that children have most to fear from family and friends of family, how do we tell them that?
Frank.
Just reading another thread which has prompted my moan. It will not be shared by all, perhaps by no-one else. BBQ's.
Why, when the sun comes out, so do the bl..dy BBQ's. Yesterday afternoon/evening, all you could smell was food cooking. Unfortunately, neighbour with yapping dog likes to do fish. It stank the garden out. People complain about bonfires, but I find BBQ's far, far worse. Cannot see the point of them. 
It is a different world to the one we grew up in. My daughter now 24 is always reading there are books everywhere. She has to show me how to do things on the computor, dont know what im going to do when she leaves home. at this moment in time it doesnt look very likely so i wont worry yet.I remember as a child going out on our bikes and not coming home for hours and my parents never worried. You cant do that today.
Another moan from yesterday are neighbours children screaming their haeds off all day long. Got so fed up with it i came back indoors, shame when it was such a lovely day
Sorry TT can,t agree about the BBQ,s we get so little sunny warm days to use the
BBQ.s and yesterday was a Bank Holiday,I can think of a lot worse smells than that o
f sausages and burgers.
Maud ....shame you felt you needed to come back indoors,were they screaming or just playing.