Staff only: Kids, listen up, the big bad world hasn't changed...[Independent.ie]
- Published: 19 May 2010
With the end of term fast approaching I've just decided to give my 6th years a little lecture on this craven new world that they will be entering. These are kids that have grown up with the kind of luxuries my generation of teens could only dream of; TVs in their bedrooms, free online music, exciting intellectual publications like Nuts and FHM which help boys cope with the fact that they're ugly and weird.
Not that that was ever an issue for me, of course.
I've got to give it to them straight -- when that TV breaks down there mightn't be a new one to replace it if Dad's job in that multinational computer company has moved to China.
The iPod you dropped in the canal the other night when you were drinking cans down at the towpath -- well, it could be a while before Mum saves up enough of her hard-earned pay to get you a new one.
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