These are some of the pictures that I took at www.theplaypark.co.uk for my pal Miriam Guard who has worked so hard to make this park for all abilities work. Sadly the local yobs have vandalised what can only be described as a haven for many. http://www.thisisexeter.co.uk/news/Exeter-vandals-target-new-playground/article-1189207-detail/article.html#StartComments
I run the website for the Playpark as a gift to Miriam who has worked tirelessly to get this wonderful play space up and running.
The trouble is that children today, and they are children have nothing to occupy themselves with. As a child we went around in the local gang but the older kids looked after the younger kids and because we didn't have much, we respected what we did have.
If only these louts could be made to spend a day with some of the more disadvantaged children, then their natural compassion would come to the fore, and they wouldn't help but feel that they would like to help. But with today's Uk nanny state who is going to challenge these children and ask them to give some of their time in return?
They have got the upper hand, but it is not doing them any good. In the old days, if a youth was messing about, the local bobby would take him aside and have a word. I can remember my brother being marched to our front door by the local policeman, and telling my parents what he had been up to. My Dad made my brother apologise, and when the bobby left us, my Dad gave my brother a damn good wallop. And when my Dad had finished with him, my Mum didn't molly coddle him, she told him that she was ashamed of him, and if she caught him misbehaving again, then she would give him what for too. It never happened again, because my brother knew his limits. When my children were little I smacked them if they misbehaved. Not often of course, because the threat of a smack was enough. They tell me these days that they never thought I was anything but fair, and that they never felt threatened at any time. What poor parents these thugs who have done damage to the playpark have, that they have not taught their children right from wrong, and the precious gift of caring for others. What a sad state of affairs we are in. I pity Miriam having to deal with this mindless aggression, but this is the society we have built for ourselves.
If only these louts could be made to spend a day with some of the more disadvantaged children, then their natural compassion would come to the fore, and they wouldn't help but feel that they would like to help. But with today's Uk nanny state who is going to challenge these children and ask them to give some of their time in return?
They have got the upper hand, but it is not doing them any good. In the old days, if a youth was messing about, the local bobby would take him aside and have a word. I can remember my brother being marched to our front door by the local policeman, and telling my parents what he had been up to. My Dad made my brother apologise, and when the bobby left us, my Dad gave my brother a damn good wallop. And when my Dad had finished with him, my Mum didn't molly coddle him, she told him that she was ashamed of him, and if she caught him misbehaving again, then she would give him what for too. It never happened again, because my brother knew his limits. When my children were little I smacked them if they misbehaved. Not often of course, because the threat of a smack was enough. They tell me these days that they never thought I was anything but fair, and that they never felt threatened at any time. What poor parents these thugs who have done damage to the playpark have, that they have not taught their children right from wrong, and the precious gift of caring for others. What a sad state of affairs we are in. I pity Miriam having to deal with this mindless aggression, but this is the society we have built for ourselves.
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