You could argue times changed @ 100 years ago. What we consider a "childhood" is very much the invention of Upper-middle class Edwardian society of that time. Prior to that the concept of what we refer to as childhood and allowing 'kids just to be kids' didn't exist.
True, go back not that far in history and kids were expected to be earning money from a young age, down coal mines, up chimneys and in factories etc.
I wonder why the OP would think listening to music would rob them of their childhood? Or does she just have it in for her sister? Kids these days are no doubt very privileged compared to those of yesteryear and childhoods are being extended more than ever....haven't they just raised the school leaving age to 17? (eventually to become 18?)
True, go back not that far in history and kids were expected to be earning money from a young age, down coal mines, up chimneys and in factories etc.
Kids these days probably have the longest "childhood" of any of their anscestors.
Kids of any generation will have the "latest thing". Today its laptops and ipods. In my day it was Astro wars and Walkman - go back another generation or two it was crystal radios and meccano.
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True, go back not that far in history and kids were expected to be earning money from a young age, down coal mines, up chimneys and in factories etc.
I wonder why the OP would think listening to music would rob them of their childhood? Or does she just have it in for her sister? Kids these days are no doubt very privileged compared to those of yesteryear and childhoods are being extended more than ever....haven't they just raised the school leaving age to 17? (eventually to become 18?)
Kids these days probably have the longest "childhood" of any of their anscestors.
Kids of any generation will have the "latest thing". Today its laptops and ipods. In my day it was Astro wars and Walkman - go back another generation or two it was crystal radios and meccano.