"Children today love luxury too much. They have execrable manners, flaunt authority, have no respect for their elders. They no longer rise when parents or teachers enter the room. What kind of awful creatures will they be when they grow up?"
The above quote seems an apt description of childhood for our times, except that it was said by the philosopher Socrates somewhere around 400BC! We have come along way since then... Or have we? A discussion of children and the challenges to childhood, in Australian culture.