The truth is Eytch, its much worse now thatn it was say 20 years ago. But I know the problem has only intensified since the BBC scrapped 'Playschool' and gave 'Blue Peter' and modern facelift job.
Now I was a good teenager usually, but I had a good upbringing mixed with Playschool and Blue Peter. These programs fired my imagination and made me want to go out and make something, or help someone.
Now there programs have gone todays teenagers' capacity to think has been forever erased. They no longer know what is right and what is wrong because the goalposts change every two minutes.
But here is the thing. Teenage/Youth crime accounts for about 6.3 billion pounds of government and our money every year. The cost to provide something for these kids to do outside of school every evening ? 3.8 billion is the current estimate. So we cant plame our children/teenagers for not having something worthwhile to do.
We should lock them up and FORCE them to watch every episode of every series of both Playschool and Blue Peter. Then let them out onto the streets again. If the 'Blue Peter Badge' became the 'in' thing to have it would be almost amusing. You would get hoodies force old people to cross over the road and do some shopping just so they could get a badge for escorting them safely back home. lol
