My eighteen-year-old daughter says of her 14-year-old sister that young people today have forgotten how to talk to each other. Instead, she says, they just text all the time and are losing the art of conversation prevalent among more senior teens.
Grandma used to say that the idle brain was the devil's playground. When the principle is applied to the two-month hiatus in the school year, even secular humanists can agree that kids left with nothing to do and no direction don't flourish. Fortunately, our fair city offers lots of productive diversions for Generation "Why?" When it comes to kids, dirty, sweaty and tired beats bored, fat and sullen any day.