Well babysitting for Baby Moonbase in a snow capped hill top cul de sac has well and truly knackered me and the Missus.
Junior is now in the land of nod for the night, swaddled like a cherub in his sleeping bag and tickler, a sort of comfort cloth like Linus had in Peanuts.
We have'nt been out or even watched telly except for Peppa Pig on You Tube to make baby sleepy. Its a strange feeling being disconnected from the world. I wonder how long you could keep it up. No telly, no news, no visitors.
When we were kids we got everything new we needed to know from comics like Marvel, DC, Eagle, TV21 and Look In. News about telly programmes we just sort of knew and passed around, a kind of kid osmosis.
There was a news programme for kids in the Seventies, groundbreaking in the UK at the time. John Cravens Newsround. I did watch it but it sure wasn't Scooby Doo or Top Cat!
Today kids are connected to each other like droids 24/7. There's nothing they don't know about each other online. They can be nice but also rotten to one another in a way our poat-war and baby boomer generations couldn't.
I'm still unsure about kids and social media and computer games. I have a gut feeling its changing them somehow. Kids I know seem less able to focus on anything, appear more hostile toward one another and adults and struggle to converse for long before play punching, wrestling and screaming like banshees.
Or we're we and all kids since the stonr age like this? Have I simply got old and am quick to find fault in the youth of today? Is it because I'm envious of their youth and wish to criticise what I can never have again, my childhood?
What do you think? Are you concerned about social media and young people?
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