Yesterday, we were waiting at the traffic lights, and I noticed the car in front had a small screen in the back showing cartoons. You may think this is amazing and fantastic-what a gadget!! But it just made me feel sad. Don't get me wrong, I love a bit of telly, but I feel so sad for these children that get ferried to school and back each day in vehicles equipped with these screens. In my day (back when dinosaurs roamed the Earth) we looked out of the windows, read books, played I Spy, or fought with each other in the back of the car. This was our favourite, because it was one of the rare occasions when me and my sister actually agreed on something and were united in our desire to wind our parents up-such fun.
These kids will never know that joy; cocooned in the back of the car, in the darkness, lit only by a cartoon-no conversation with their parents or each other, and for me what was the saddest thing of all, was that all they had to do was tear their eyes away from the screen and look to their right, and they would have seen the sun creeping over the tops of the snow covered mountains, filling the sky with a soft pink and gold glow.
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