So it might just be me in my 20 years of old age, but who these days remembers when they first went on a swing at the local park? When they used to be the highlight of your life because you can swing back and forth and have some real fun while your at it?

Seems these days, these kinds of things dont exist anymore without legal pending approval from six agencies that are specifically ‘trained’ in health and safety, personally I dont think a kid is going to care that the rope on the swing is made from six way binded poly-eurathane to ensure total safety, I think they’re gonna care about the swinging sensation and having fun…

Oh wait fun… I forgot apparently the kids these days dont have fun without a computer system in front of them! (Ironic coming from a gamer right?) But thats also the governments view… so naturally they decide its well within their rights to pave over large amounts of grassy areas and knock down parks to build houses the size of rabbit hutches, This is happening just around the corner from me in my home town. A park that even my parents can remember being there 40 years ago is being sold to a contracting ferm who are going to build 2-4 houses on this tiny plot land, and I kid you not how small this piece of land is, 20 meters wide by 15 deep… and it isnt square either.

This is what I cannot understand about the local, regional and national governments, they put all this money into ‘child activites’ and then they go and demolish perfectly good parks and grassy areas to build houses for the social elite? Where is their commitment to the new generations of the country? Oh wait… their donation to the generation is obescity, taxes before they are ten and the ability to make sure in 60 years time they still wont have any money for that pension…

Frankly what im getting at is the fact that I dont seem to see kids out and about playing footie anymore, or playing on swings/slides and all the other things I used to as a kid, I remember going down the local brook and deciding to make a big army base and throw twigs at passers by because they were invading with their dogs! These days, you cant find places to do this without having a government in(ass)spector coming along and writting a note about how terrible the children act this day and age because they have fun.

Might aswell mass-produce children without the fun centre of their brain… oh wait we are, its called ’school’ and ‘life experience’ of today. Damn