Per R Dewar Sabinillas

Wednesday, 30 June 2010 12:53

Written by Editor

Edition 78 has the inimitable Muriel Pilkington stating, in as many words, that young people are more interested in cell phones, Ipods and computers than in  revolutions. She omits one other factor: today’s ‘opium of the people’, football.

Editor replies: I doubt many of the English football youngsters will be that interested in the game at the moment after the English side's pitiful performance in the World Cup! Personally I think sports  managers have a very poor “pool” to pick new up-and-coming players from right now and that the playing of competitive sports in schools should be brought back without delay.

People have to learn that in life, sometimes you lose and the sooner kids get used to that basic fact, the better. Young people need guidelines not namby-pamby pussy-footing around and adults need to be taught how to communicate with children again, a  skill sadly missing in a lot of them. Parenting is not about sticking your kid in front of a computer or telly  telling it to get on with it. And it should bother all of us how few parents “know” their children.