howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
spot on paul, in a hundred years the script will still be the same - add to that parents telling their children how well off they are compared to their day.
Guest 700- Registered: 11 Jun 2010
- Posts: 2,868
Assaults always happened but the punishments were more meaningful:
Maria JOHNSON (15) a servant from Woodnesborough, left "Barnswell" chapel Sunday evening next before Christmas 1896. 3 youths accosted her in Staple - Harry JOINER (17), GARLINGE (16), and ---- . Detail given. JOINER and GARLING given 1 month imprisonment (Bygone Kent May 1995, pp.283-284 by M.Weller)
---------------------------------------------------
Lincolnshire Born and Bred
Guest 694- Registered: 22 Mar 2010
- Posts: 778
I'm not saying that there isnt stuff out there that the young kids can do, but its always nice to hear about other stuff they can do.
Just know that a lot of parents struggle to make ends meet so sports equipment is not a high priority.
True that some seek mischief over entertainment, but given the wide variety of backgrounds and social systems "young people" come from, there has to be more than a one-size-fits-all approach. I have known some right toerags who have grown up into fabulous, socially conscious, contributing adults because they had the right attention at the right time!!
Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
- Posts: 8,664
"at the right time" = "before it was too late."
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson