While S may well be on strike, she’s not holding back from sending me stories about bubs to blog about, I assume to ease a guilty conscience brought on by her not blogging them herself.
The latest is a Reuters piece talking about toxic tots and how modern living and the pressures put on kids is breeding a generation of porky, video game addicts who have no idea how to interact with another person in a “real world” setting. The story concludes with;
Award-winning children’s author Michael Morpurgo, who also signed the letter, said there was a “drip, drip, drip effect” of academic pressure and marketing which was killing childhood.
“It’s gradually soaking like a poison into the culture,” he told BBC radio. “There is less room for reading, for dreaming, for music, for drama, for art, and simply for playing.”