Watch for Children?

The silence is deafening.

Date:   3/17/2006 10:57:00 PM   ( 18 y ) ... viewed 2100 times

Yesterday was a Thursday. At 4:45 I drove through a residential suburban area. I noticed a street sign that said "Watch for Children." I began to look around as I drove through this neighborhood. Nice houses, good middle-class neighborhood, it looked family friendly. It was the afternoon on a beautiful spring day. About 65 F. It had been a school day.

Not a child in sight...

I imagine that 50 years ago, there would have been children running through the neighborhood on such a day as that, and most any other day, too.

Where are the children now?

Either at some extra-curricular activity (sports practice, karate lessons, dance lessons, music lessons, school tutoring) OR engaged in a passive leisure activity (watching TV, playing video games, talking on the phone, surfing the internet).

And we wonder why there are so many overweight children these days. Times have changed - in so many ways!

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