RE: The one thing I realize with the youth of today
June 19, 2016 at 2:43 am
(This post was last modified: June 19, 2016 at 2:44 am by Thumpalumpacus.)
2 bad, U lose, lolz
PS -- It's not the generation itself; it's the parents who don't involve themselves in the education of their children. My son can textspeak, and can write shimmering essays for his university classes, because his mother and I decided when he was born that he would not get baby-talk, and we each kept a good dictionary in our houses. I read to him nightly the three days a week I had him, and by four, he read to me -- he had read Call of the Wild by five, and Lord of the Rings by eight. He still reads daily, for pleasure -- stuff like The National Interest, Raw Story, and less often nowadays, books.
Parental investment is key to a child's learning. You're seeing the results of a generation of parents accustomed to treating the computer as a babysitter, I think.
PS -- It's not the generation itself; it's the parents who don't involve themselves in the education of their children. My son can textspeak, and can write shimmering essays for his university classes, because his mother and I decided when he was born that he would not get baby-talk, and we each kept a good dictionary in our houses. I read to him nightly the three days a week I had him, and by four, he read to me -- he had read Call of the Wild by five, and Lord of the Rings by eight. He still reads daily, for pleasure -- stuff like The National Interest, Raw Story, and less often nowadays, books.
Parental investment is key to a child's learning. You're seeing the results of a generation of parents accustomed to treating the computer as a babysitter, I think.
