Posted on 04/19/2018 5:18:27 AM PDT by simpson96
William Shakespeare knew well enough the frustrations of bringing up teenage children. “I would there were no age between sixteen and three-and-twenty,” he wrote in The Winter’s Tale. “For there is nothing in the between but getting wenches with child, wronging the ancientry, stealing, fighting.”
Now parents have united online in annoyance at adolescents “wronging the ancientry”, posting pictures of their offspring ignoring their beautiful surroundings in favour of their mobile phone screens.
It started with a tweet by the comedian David Baddiel, who shared a picture of his son, Ezra, 13, studying his phone while perched on a boulder by a rugged stretch of Cornish coastline. He wrote mischievously that Ezra was “hypnotised and overawed as ever by the beauty of nature”.
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In the first picture it looks like he may have a picture of the canyon on his phone. He liked the view so he took a picture of it to keep it or share it.
Liberals, whining about the monster that they themselves alone created. No sympathy.
Also, I look at kids like this and think "With this kind of competition, WBill Jr is going to rule the entire world."
(i)Pod People
Get the kid a haircut and maybe he would be able to see all of that beauty. /Semi Sarc
This is relevant to all areas, not just their p\ss poor parenting.
They ruin entire countries too!
Gotta agree.
These days, the second thing I do after admiring a view is take a picture with my phone.
When I am in FL, I get up early to watch the sunrise. And frequently I wait patiently on Saint George Island to capture the sunset.
My real goal is to see the “green flash” from the setting sun over the ocean, and capture it on a picture. I was figuring I could do that from St. Petersburg - maybe at Fort DeSoto?
This is nothing new. For years teenagers have hated to go on vacations with their parents. They would rather stay home and have the house to themselves. House Party!!!!
Tide Pod people.
My thought as well.
A teacher who taught in Norwalk, Calif. told me that he had a hard time getting his teenage students to go with him on trips to Huntington Beach State Park or Yosemite National Park. They thought those places would be on some other gang’s turf.
Nothing new here, teens have always been stupid.
“Nothing new here, teens have always been stupid.”
Yep, and old farts are still curmudgeons. The “get off my lawn” phase is just as cliche and predictable and FUN as youth!
Twas ever thus
/Howzabout getting the kid a haircut? Teaching them a bit of discipline? And, not giving them a phone to begin with?
Liberals, whining about the monster that they themselves alone created. No sympathy.
/Also, I look at kids like this and think “With this kind of competition, WBill Jr is going to rule the entire world.”
I must be getting old. I agree with everything, including that the kid needs a haircut - and I’m an old hippie who generally doesn’t care about hair. : ) Take the phone from the kid. Maybe you just bring it out to take pics.
I also think that my son will rule the world for decades to come with ‘competition’ like this.
'Tis a point of contention in our house. No phone (until necessary) for WBill Jr. No DVD player in the car, either. Especially on long trips. We talk, mostly, or crank up the radio.
So far so good. The kid knows how to communicate better than most of the millenials that I work with. Really, I wasn't kidding, too much, about him ruling the world...
Mine would be exploring everything and taking a hundred pictures.
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