Comments on: Abandoned http://www.yellowswordfish.com/999/abandoned/ Sun, 24 Jan 2010 00:15:11 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Andy @ Yellow Swordfish http://www.yellowswordfish.com/999/abandoned/comment-page-1/#comment-55589 Andy @ Yellow Swordfish Wed, 08 Jul 2009 12:52:34 +0000 http://www.yellowswordfish.com/?p=999#comment-55589 <strong>Maureen</strong>: I think it is the 'sickos' that have put most parents off allowing their kids to have a normal childhood. But actually I think it is the sensationalist media that has really done this. I recall reading statistics that proportionately showed that the number of 'sickos' hasn't really changed but the media just loves to make a big thing when something does happen and resort to scare tactics to get a big splash. Although I will agree that more used to be jailed for longer terms than happens today. Kids playing in groups - which is how kids play - are probably no more vulnerable today than they ever were plus, with the inevitable mobile phone in their pocket, they also have much quicker access to help should they need it. The vast majority of child abuse, violence against children and sexual abuse of children goes on in the family home - not out on the streets. The paranoia that is flamed by 'tabloid' media like the Daily Mail in the UK and Fox News in the USA is responsible for stealing normal childhood experience from vast numbers of kids and we are already seeing the result of this as the first generation of these kids reach adulthood without the experience or knowledge of how to make good partners and decent parents themselves. Maureen: I think it is the ’sickos’ that have put most parents off allowing their kids to have a normal childhood. But actually I think it is the sensationalist media that has really done this. I recall reading statistics that proportionately showed that the number of ’sickos’ hasn’t really changed but the media just loves to make a big thing when something does happen and resort to scare tactics to get a big splash. Although I will agree that more used to be jailed for longer terms than happens today.

Kids playing in groups – which is how kids play – are probably no more vulnerable today than they ever were plus, with the inevitable mobile phone in their pocket, they also have much quicker access to help should they need it.

The vast majority of child abuse, violence against children and sexual abuse of children goes on in the family home – not out on the streets.

The paranoia that is flamed by ‘tabloid’ media like the Daily Mail in the UK and Fox News in the USA is responsible for stealing normal childhood experience from vast numbers of kids and we are already seeing the result of this as the first generation of these kids reach adulthood without the experience or knowledge of how to make good partners and decent parents themselves.

]]> By: Maureen http://www.yellowswordfish.com/999/abandoned/comment-page-1/#comment-55587 Maureen Wed, 08 Jul 2009 12:20:05 +0000 http://www.yellowswordfish.com/?p=999#comment-55587 How true! I used to play in a little "forest" as well... a plot of land that was left undisturbed by the river... it was great fun to pick up acorns, make our own slingshots, forts (yes, I was a tomboy!). Now a bank sits there. Too bad all the kids have today are virtual experiences. Then again, with all the sickos around, I wouldn't want my kids wandering the area anymore either. A whole new world indeed. .-= Maureen´s last blog ..<a href="http://www.ratherbeblogging.com/2009/07/funny-thing-happened.html" rel="nofollow">A Funny Thing Happened...</a> =-. How true! I used to play in a little “forest” as well… a plot of land that was left undisturbed by the river… it was great fun to pick up acorns, make our own slingshots, forts (yes, I was a tomboy!). Now a bank sits there.

Too bad all the kids have today are virtual experiences. Then again, with all the sickos around, I wouldn’t want my kids wandering the area anymore either.

A whole new world indeed.
Maureen´s last blog ..A Funny Thing Happened… My ComLuv Profile

]]> By: Andy @ Yellow Swordfish http://www.yellowswordfish.com/999/abandoned/comment-page-1/#comment-55586 Andy @ Yellow Swordfish Wed, 08 Jul 2009 11:01:11 +0000 http://www.yellowswordfish.com/?p=999#comment-55586 It's a very disturbing trend even if only from the point of view of future forest husbandry. It’s a very disturbing trend even if only from the point of view of future forest husbandry.

]]> By: Jeannine http://www.yellowswordfish.com/999/abandoned/comment-page-1/#comment-55474 Jeannine Thu, 02 Jul 2009 15:00:12 +0000 http://www.yellowswordfish.com/?p=999#comment-55474 Sadly, it's the same here in the US, mostly... anyone under 25 just wants to play inside with their tech toys. 'What?!? Go OUTSIDE?!?!?" Also, here in the US at least, poison ivy and some other vines are now growing at a much more rapid pace than in the past - a few degree temp difference and more CO2 and they really take off! So it doesn't take too long for something to get overgrown, then no one wants the work of clearing it again... Sorry your visit didn't meet your expectations. Sadly, it’s the same here in the US, mostly… anyone under 25 just wants to play inside with their tech toys. ‘What?!? Go OUTSIDE?!?!?”

Also, here in the US at least, poison ivy and some other vines are now growing at a much more rapid pace than in the past – a few degree temp difference and more CO2 and they really take off! So it doesn’t take too long for something to get overgrown, then no one wants the work of clearing it again…

Sorry your visit didn’t meet your expectations.

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