--- In [email protected], new.morning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "curtisdeltablues" > > > > I think the next generations are more vulnerable to infotainment > > graphics that sum up complexities into simple images. That is how > > their mind's are being trained to process. It has a similar effect > > but uses a different sense to achieve its "no question" goal. > > Yeah those damn kids. When we were their age we use to have to trod > through 20 miles of snow to go rounding or fly in the domes. Kids! > Next thing you know they will be listening to rock'n'roll -- or even > blues music!. (the devils music) > Ha-Ha! "Why when I was their age, I had to...".
Seriously the greatest impact on a child's mind and whether or not they view life with clear and intelligent discrimination is how their parents see things. Amazing how unfazed my daughter is by some of the less helpful social influences these days, and on the other hand how susceptible some of her (mostly past) friends are. She was joking with me the other day, "yeah dad, I turned out so badly- many of the kids I go to school with do drugs on Friday night, and here I am attending a school play with my mom...". Also we were talking about how when parents say one thing but do another, even though the child can't articulate the disconnect, they are totally aware of it on a visceral level, and if the disconnect continues, they will naturally lose respect for the parent, and tune them out. Something that is way too common, in any generation. So our kids keep us real too when we are tuned into them in the present vs. stories about how we should be raising them.
