1971 Wild Kids

You see what's happening with kids today and you gotta wonder. I suppose they've been saying that since language emerged in the wild caveman days but it doesn't make it any less troubling.
It's when they're very young that you worry the most. Like I saw an online ad the other day for a tablet device of some sort. Or possibly an operating system or phone network thing. In any event, the ad showed a family in the woods. I recently wrote about how people get lost in the woods because they can no longer use their map apps when their device runs out of battery power. The family in the ad seemed to have no such concern. They were watching a video of "Finding Nemo" on theirs.
Two things. Probably by the end of the movie they'll be re-titleing it, "Find Our Family." And two. Why would you go into the woods on a family outing and watch a movie?
"Hey kids. Were going to a garden. Call up the flower program on your devices and enable the iSmell app for roses!"
A whole new spin on kindergarten. Which, by the way, was a new thing that disturbed parents when it was introduced. "You mean take my kids to school before they're actually required to be in school? And they'll play and learn at the same time? Make learning fun? What a crazy idea. One day they might get all wildly creative and invent things like computers and smartypants phones and stuff."
And what's with the German name--Kinder? We call our kids children. And garden is spelled with a D. Why not Kids Garden? Or Children Garden?
Makes sense. Lots of children did come from a nursery.
Though I got mine because of a wild thing.
America, ya gotta love it.