Comments on: It hasn’t always been the 1950s. http://www.moley75.co.uk/2006/09/13/it-hasnt-always-been-the-1950s/ This blog is supposed to be about all sorts of things but, shall we say, Buffy the Vampire Slayer is a minor interest of mine. Thu, 29 Jul 2010 03:45:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Maureen http://www.moley75.co.uk/2006/09/13/it-hasnt-always-been-the-1950s/comment-page-1/#comment-19 Maureen Thu, 14 Sep 2006 15:21:20 +0000 http://www.moley75.co.uk/letsfoldscarves/?p=137#comment-19 Interesting discussion. I think here in the US we are a lot farther down the road of the kind of childhood those Telegraph letter signers were decrying. I am clearly in the camp that food choices and education are worse these days than they were in my days (although my mother was a horrible cook, so my personal food choices were always bad - either crap fast food or crap home cooked food), but I think the computer and the accompanying technological advances are almost entirely beneficial. I would also add that the food and education issues are also tied together with the lives that we as parents are living. When you are at work for such a large percentage of time, it is certainly harder to plan and prepare healthy meals, or spend the time to help your child better understand what they learned at school. Interesting discussion. I think here in the US we are a lot farther down the road of the kind of childhood those Telegraph letter signers were decrying. I am clearly in the camp that food choices and education are worse these days than they were in my days (although my mother was a horrible cook, so my personal food choices were always bad – either crap fast food or crap home cooked food), but I think the computer and the accompanying technological advances are almost entirely beneficial.

I would also add that the food and education issues are also tied together with the lives that we as parents are living. When you are at work for such a large percentage of time, it is certainly harder to plan and prepare healthy meals, or spend the time to help your child better understand what they learned at school.

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