If a kid disappears, now there's Amber Alerts: they know this-this-this. In the '50s, we kids wandered around. Nobody knew what you were doing.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
As a child I knew almost nothing, nothing beyond what I had picked up in my grandmother's house. All children, I suppose, come into the world like that, not knowing who they are.
Soon the child learns that there are strangers, and ceases to be a child.
Children will be children, and they're inquisitive. If teenagers want to know what's out there, they'll look, but there are things that aren't for their eyes.
If my grandchildren were to look at me and say, 'You were aware species were disappearing and you did nothing, you said nothing', that I think is culpable. I don't know how much more they expect me to be doing, I'd better ask them.
Kids don't know what life was like without cell phones.
These days, children can text on their cell phone all night long, and no one else is seeing that phone. You don't know who is calling that child.
Kids need to see their world reflected back to them.
Who would know but ten years ago that kids would be texting each other all the time, that that would be one of their main forms of communication. And so many times, these kids know more about the technology than their parents. And so many times, we're putting kids in very adult situations and expecting them to behave like they're 40 years old.
I get concerned when I see kids on their phones. They don't read enough anymore, anything longer than a tweet.
Children know from a remarkably early age that things are being kept from them, that grown-ups participate in a world of mysteries.