Side Effects of Idleness Not being allowed to work produces a special kind of cynicism in a person. The implicit suggestion that the individual or the class is inferior cannot be missed. Thus, many young people infer that they are not important, that they are free to commit mutiny. Families should carefully plan and initiate work. Sports are not a substitute for responsible enterprise.
Sports are play, and playing too much and too long is one of our present cultural disorders.
Parents must find ventures that are well adapted to their children's abilities and needs. Today, while parents often are running faster than ever, with schedules so full that they rarely have time for themselves, their children's lives tend to be mostly play-oriented. They are growing up on holiday. Instead of this false world they need real and challenging work opportunities from which they will gain a sound and healthy self-image and will begin to learn about life and responsibility.