The Kids of Today? The Adults of Today More Like!

There’s no way to tell just by looking at a child what the effect of smacking them will be.

There’s a good chance you are doing irreparable damage, so who wants to take that risk?

We know from mountains of research that hitting children has a negative impact that can last their whole lives, and lead to unacceptable and unworkable social behaviour, violence, alcoholism, drug addiction, broken relationships and the rest.

There are so many other solutions to hitting a child in order to teach them. In fact ‘hitting’ and ‘teaching’ shouldn’t even be seen in the same article together, they don’t belong.

From my experience working with tens of thousands of young people from all financial, religious and cultural backgrounds, the vast majority of them are not only good but great, and up for life in a big way. But we barely hear about them, certainly don’t support them like we should, like we need to.

The ‘good kids’ are not considered newsworthy, so all we hear about are the clickbait, kid-gone-bad money-making stories, which people lap-up so much this is all they’re fed into their daily newsfeed, because it pays.

Today’s ‘kids’ have to deal with and process more in a few minutes than most kids of the 60’s and 70’s could have handed in a month. And we are handing over a toxic baton to them filled with a global pandemic no one knows how to fix, religious intolerance leading to hate crimes and fighting, wars all over the planet fuelled by arms companies determined to keep the conflict going because it pays them hundreds of billions of dollars every year to do so, global climate change which has the very real potential of wiping out all life within two generations — but no one really wants to deal with that because it would affect the bottom line too much — and racism.

How we managed to keep THAT one going when we know there is only one race on earth I don’t know. But that’s not true, yes I do, through spreading fear and misinformation and controlling the media. That’s how it’s done.

We also invented and created a world full of electronic and techie ‘stuff’ in order to get them addicted and dependent on it, which needs to be replaced every couple of years so the billions in profits our generation makes off them can be turned into trillions, then blame young people for using it!

Respect needs to be earned and isn’t just a given anymore. The thousands of drunks breaking into Wembley weren’t kids, they were mostly adults, young and older.

Police do an impossible job, but it’s made harder when elements are found guilty in court for race crimes, corruption and setting people up. The ‘rules’ of society are constantly changing, and I was brought up in a generation which deliberately and gleefully flouted the rules.

People still around from that time conveniently ignore this and fall back on the old and trusted kids of today and in my day’ statements they remember being used on them by their parents and grandparents, but STILL churn it out like it’s a new idea.

Monty Python created a brilliant skit out of it. Everything was being challenged, which is part of the job of being young. Our generation is handing over a poisoned chalice to this generation. We’d have been angry too if it had it been us.

Kids of today? They’re fine, no thanks to us. My generation and the one that came after, however, have a lot to answer for.