What if the lights go out, (US article)

[Scythe13]

Children nowerdays are the new medicated.

Previously an unwell person would recieve medication to make them healthy again.

Then mentally ill people were medicated to get them sane, or at least make them manageable in an asylum.

Years late the elderly were medicated to keep them quiet.

Then drug addicts were medicated to get them off the drugs.

Next came the kids who are medicated to keep them quiet, get them to conform. Nowerdays they are being iMedicatred. Like iPods, but with technological-drugs.

The thing that gets me is what SD said, that it's easier to put kids infront of a TV. That is the new medication. When a child is being loud, parents put on the TV and the child is hypnotised. They remain transfixed until the TV is turned off. When it is turned off though, they get angry and want it back on. TV is a drug. TV is the new heroin. The same is of the internet and Facebook. Close down a kids facebook account and they'll tell you that they hate you, and then they won't speak to you for ages. I'm serious about this, try it. Wait......probably best you don't. They could very well turn massively violent!

Kids don't know better, but many parents didn't have the advantages of love and free time. Everyone is someone's child. Many of the parents of the iGeneration simply didn't learn how to hang out with kids and become a fantastic rolemodel. What they had was the government telling them how to behave and how to look after their children. I hate to say it, but a child having freedom is hardly heard of anymore.

I used to play in the woods when I was a kid. Remember that day when you buy a blackwidow catapult and start shooting stones around and all that? Yeah, me too. But most kids don't have those opportunities, or the level of responsibility to do such things.

If I ever have kids, they'll be learning to use, respect, and accept the responsibility of having a knife. When it comes to other things, damn right they'll be taught, skilled, and responsible enough for those things as well.