My kids are both getting to old to have kids.We're without grandchildren and told we won't have any.
As an anti war movement and statement against war, I wished it was manditory that all high school students be required to sit down and watch Steven Spieberg's " Saving Private Ryan". Then maybe they can get a better perspective to maybe war ain't so great.
I wish I could be more in tune to kids and whats going on. Like what makes them tick and what makes them laugh. The few times I'm around them I see children glued to their TVs watching strange cartoons. Thats not real and the fantasy factor seems questionbly dangerous.
I watched Jurassic Park thinking this was a movie for both kids and adults(hearsay) and got the bee-jeebers scared right out of me.
If I had it to do over about raising young ones, I would throw away the TV, go only to selected movies at the theatre and READ to my kids till they learned to read, and then we would ALL read to one another, thus developing a real since of imagination and not what some devious jerk force feeds us thruogh the media and screen.Using one's imagination seems to be a disappearing function we all need.Good thread and thanks for allowing me to release a thought or two.
Mudjack