Wednesday, September 22, 2010

When I Was Your Age...

Dr. Ken Ginsburg will be speaking at 7 p.m. Oct. 28 at Patton Middle School on the topic of building resilience in children.
"Today's children face a great deal of stress: academic pressures, heavy scheduling, media messages, peer pressure and family tension," according to a press release for the talk.
Certainly today's kids do face unique pressures, but we wish that before deciding they lead such miserable, stress-filled lives, parents and kids would spend a few minutes chatting with members of "The Greatest Generation." Perhaps they'd gain some insight into what it was like growing up when hardship meant something far more serious than being seen with last month's electronic gadget.

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