I agree, partially. A lot of the things kids used to do and what was expected of them was really great, and made them into more solid citizens. But along with knowing how to do those things it seems there was more innocence back then too. Kids now know a lot more about things they shouldn't from a young age, but it is not their fault. It is the fault of "progress" and growing up in the information age. I would love to at least see Home Ec taught in schools again, classes with real life skills, including some physical stuff too. Kids today don't have to work really hard physically like in days of old. In some ways it's awful but in other ways quite fortunate. Just tour any old graveyard and see the headstones of many children who died much too young. We always assume they died from illness, but I'm betting many of them died by having to work around heavy machinery or any other thing us "modern" folks would never let our young children around today.
I agree, partially. A lot of the things kids used to do and what was expected of them was really great, and made them into more solid citizens. But along with knowing how to do those things it seems there was more innocence back then too. Kids now know a lot more about things they shouldn't from a young age, but it is not their fault. It is the fault of "progress" and growing up in the information age. I would love to at least see Home Ec taught in schools again, classes with real life skills, including some physical stuff too. Kids today don't have to work really hard physically like in days of old. In some ways it's awful but in other ways quite fortunate. Just tour any old graveyard and see the headstones of many children who died much too young. We always assume they died from illness, but I'm betting many of them died by having to work around heavy machinery or any other thing us "modern" folks would never let our young children around today.