Icelandic youth policy

[Skids]

[think positive]

i agree with sooo much of that!

one thing for sure is so many parents in my age group dont know the difference between want and need. and the kids suffer.

cant believe that law is needed, in our day we just lived by the streetlight law - they came on, you were home, except maybe saturday night.

im still shocked how many parents drop their kids off for a netball game and come back 40 min later - sad.

[stui magpie]

I agree with a lot of it, some like age limits on booze and smokes and no cigarette advertising we've already done.

The bit about brain chemistry and kids wanting to alter it was interesting. I maintain that those fkn energy drinks are a gateway to Ice for kids who have a need for stimulants.

Agree on the curfew, no reason for 13-16 year olds to be out after 10pm without their parents IMHO on week nights.

On TP's comment about dropping kids off at Netball, sometimes parents have other things to do.

I was having a beer with an old high school mate over Xmas. We were comparing notes about how often either of our parents saw us play junior footy, the answer for both of us was never. At 12 years old, playing under 14's footy, for away games you'd walk by yourself to the designated point about 8am on a freezing winter Saturday and wait for a parent who was driving their kid to the game to swing past and give you a lift. Hopefully.
Sometimes it would just be an adult, so you'd jump in a car with someone you didn't know and let them drive you between 20 to 70km away, then hope like hell in the days of no mobile phones that they remembered to give you a lift home.

Getting kids involved in organised sport is a good idea, parents spending time with them is also good, but you can't force that. Many kids hit their teens and would rather cap themselves than be seen in public with their parents.

[think positive]

footy takes a couple of hours, junior netball is just 40 min. and if i had had a footy player, i would have been watching all their games too! priorities.

[Dave The Man]

Because there no money to be made most likely

[stui magpie]

footy takes a couple of hours, junior netball is just 40 min. and if i had had a footy player, i would have been watching all their games too! priorities.

I watched every one of my kids jnr sporting stuff, footy, cricket, netball, athletics, some of them several hours long.

The only game of footy my mum ever saw me play was when I was 20 and she came to Melbourne to stay for a few days.

She worked weekends in her own milk bar, Dad worked Saturday mornings then went pub, lunch and bed in that order, so neither of them ever saw me play anything, which never really bothered me because:

1. I wasn't very good so not much to see
2. I liked the independence.

I wouldn't criticise parents who drop kids off at games and leave, you don't know what they have going on. If my daughter had refused to come to her brothers football games and I couldn't leave her home alone, I may have had to make some interesting choices.

[think positive]

Working is a legitimate priority. popping down the road for a coffee isnt. they drink coffee and the same muggins mums umpire every week too!

[ronrat]

I know quite a few Icelandic folk who holiday and live here. They all love drinking, heavy metal and the wild side of life. handy in a fight as well. That sais once you get to know them they are friendly and have a drier wit than the swedes and Germans e6c but they do have a deep respect for family, Not uncommon for Mum and Dad to come out out for 6 week holiday and stay in the sons house and oretty much fit in. You could have 15 bar girls dancing naked on the bar and much more but Mumma will just sit there and talk to whoever with out batting an eyelid, They do people on what they do and say and not what they are expected to do. Non judgemental. I like them.