RizzyKing

While i agree with some of the points i think parents play a big part in how long their children stay children and although external influences are greater then they were when i was growing up a lot of parents don't have the skills they used to have either. I know i made mistakes when our kids were growing up and everyone does but i see a lot of very young parents now putting their kids into clothing i would never have allowed and also giving them things way before they are able to be responsible for them. Mobile phones are one of the things that are really not helping but i have sympathy with parents because if your kid is the one without one they do get a lot of stick for it off the kids who do have them.

I think we need to clamp down on targetted advertising as that is certainly quite aggressive towards lower age groups but it's a while since i was a parent so not sure what the kids mags and the like are like now.