Rob Keeble
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we now need a school that teaches parents how to take kids to the playground at the Park.
Last week i sat with Linda through her morning breakfast television show. This channel has a roaming reporter visiting various sponsors events/sites to promote whatever it is they doing. ( Call it what it is an attempted camouflage of commercial promotion being endorsed as a news item).
Well i could not believe my ears and its driven me crazy ever since. Over the weekend we got together with a large group of our local friends for a travelling supper and over the coffee i brought up the subject and no one else had heard of it but they were all amazed. All of us are at the age where the kids are in the launchpad to life either having just finished schooling and now working or still at tertiary education somewhere.
The very idea hit me between the eyes but the final coup de grace was when the lady enlightening viewers as to the content said one important thing they had to teach Moms was "Mom put your phone down when going to the playground and keep an eye on the kid"
At that point i asked Linda if we could change the channel as i could not take it anymore. The social change was just too much for my pea brain to handle.
I never had the greatest parents by any standards and i don't think i was ever supervised, i caused all sorts of mayhem even burning down our garage (none of it deliberately) ended up in hospital several times in my life for self inflicted damage of some sort or other. But i sure learnt a great deal and have tried to let my sons have similar freedoms within certain bounds and norms same as i was given.
But has the obsession with the phone gone so far as to warrant that we now need to have parenting classes on how to take a child to a public playground.
Unfortunately i was so shocked out of my wits at the time that i did not catch the name or location of the business running these classes. Part of me thinks this is a consequence of someone tapping funding available in our Province from all sorts of government sources for any non profit social organization that has a cause that impacts the community and is being used as job creation. If this has been run on April 1 i would have thought it an April fools joke.
Whats your thought on this subject are things among new parents really that bad. Where have we gone wrong as a generation in producing offspring that feels they need to be told how to conduct a play session for their kid at the local park.
Last week i sat with Linda through her morning breakfast television show. This channel has a roaming reporter visiting various sponsors events/sites to promote whatever it is they doing. ( Call it what it is an attempted camouflage of commercial promotion being endorsed as a news item).
Well i could not believe my ears and its driven me crazy ever since. Over the weekend we got together with a large group of our local friends for a travelling supper and over the coffee i brought up the subject and no one else had heard of it but they were all amazed. All of us are at the age where the kids are in the launchpad to life either having just finished schooling and now working or still at tertiary education somewhere.
The very idea hit me between the eyes but the final coup de grace was when the lady enlightening viewers as to the content said one important thing they had to teach Moms was "Mom put your phone down when going to the playground and keep an eye on the kid"
At that point i asked Linda if we could change the channel as i could not take it anymore. The social change was just too much for my pea brain to handle.
I never had the greatest parents by any standards and i don't think i was ever supervised, i caused all sorts of mayhem even burning down our garage (none of it deliberately) ended up in hospital several times in my life for self inflicted damage of some sort or other. But i sure learnt a great deal and have tried to let my sons have similar freedoms within certain bounds and norms same as i was given.
But has the obsession with the phone gone so far as to warrant that we now need to have parenting classes on how to take a child to a public playground.
Unfortunately i was so shocked out of my wits at the time that i did not catch the name or location of the business running these classes. Part of me thinks this is a consequence of someone tapping funding available in our Province from all sorts of government sources for any non profit social organization that has a cause that impacts the community and is being used as job creation. If this has been run on April 1 i would have thought it an April fools joke.
Whats your thought on this subject are things among new parents really that bad. Where have we gone wrong as a generation in producing offspring that feels they need to be told how to conduct a play session for their kid at the local park.