General Discussion

I worry that a generation that knew RURAL..In Touch with Raking Leaves and doing Community Stuff has no contact any more with the REAL WORLD...in an Environmental Sense that many of us before had. It leads to Alienation from one's Natural Surroundings and Disenfranchisement..with anything outside of our TV/Cable/Internet/FaceBook, etc./Dominated world.

As you say: (although..CAVEAT...so many parents these days have NO TIME working TWO ...TREE JOBS...or dealing with "Lay Offs and Slow Downs" where one Parent has work the other is "out of job" and vice versa. These are times that are so hard for hope with folks struggling that PARENTS THESE DAYS...have so few ops to deal that it's truly a new phenomenon. So I could understand the angst of kids growing up these days in this kind of world...and wish it wasn't so for them. And I don't think we can blame "Parents" who don't have time...because WHERE CAN THEY FIND THE TIME!" ...but, agree with you that those who DO HAVE THE TIME are not MENTORING as they SHOULD...Taking Responsibility. (I think of those Multi-Billionaire Wall St. "POS/Opportunists" as Prime Example of folks who let their kids RUN WILD given their PARENT's EXAMPLE! (Sorry for the "shout out for emphasis&quot

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[/i[Too many parents don't bother to parent these days, from what I see. You never see kids playing outside any more. Kids are becoming increasingly clueless about how to interact with other people, and this is reflected in our polarized politics.

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