Sunday, November 2, 2008

Kids Today Have No Direction

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Well, at least my daughter doesn't.
And I mean a "No Sense Of Direction".

Kelsey is 13 years old and has no idea
how to get anywhere in our town.
We got into a discussion about knowing directions...

We had to take friend of hers home yesterday,
she's from a neighboring town and knew her address,
but had no idea how to get to her house.
Once we tracked down directions, she said the house was
"up there on the left",
turns out she didn't know left from right either.

Were were talking about this with Kelsey
and she also had no idea how to get to our house.

This was kind of a shock to me, because she's lived here practically all her life.

But if you think about it, in this day and age of technology,
how would she know???
Kids these days are to busy talking on cell phones, texting or
scrolling through song lists on MP3 players to pay attention to
where we're going when we chauffeur them around.
On longer trips there are car DVD players and laptops to watch
movies on, and hand help electronic games.
Why watch the scenery? Who cares where you are.

This is really bugging me.
She can get her temps in 2 years, the poor kid won't be able to find
her way home her first time out.
Luckily she's always got that trusty distraction called a cell phone.
She'll be able to call for directions.

1 comment:

Miranda said...

I'm pretty sure she'll learn real quick directions from the house to the mall and back ;)