In today's society, you hear and read a lot about how rude and discourteous children are. As we were approaching the door of a business, an elderly gentleman with a cane was walking down the sidewalk. The man proceeded to walk through the door, as did about five other people, both young and old. Not one single person thanked my son for holding open the door. So before we as a society start criticizing the younger generation, maybe we need to take a look at ourselves.
Children learn by our words as well as our actions.
The news industry caters to and exacerbates the public's seemingly insatiable desire to wallow vicariously in the suffering of bereaved and grief-stricken relatives. No display of emotion seems too personal or too painful to examine and highlight. The Egyptian airliner crash was a feast of bad taste. Commentators reached the ultimate depravity as they eagerly reported that the doomed airplane briefly recovered from its seaward plunge only to come apart in the air. Relatives get that journalistic bonus.