OPINION: Where have we gone wrong?

 

DEAR News Of The Area,

I HAVE been pondering over the news that we are getting, that all types of businesses (for example restaurants, shops, fruit pickers) cannot find enough staff to do full time or even part time work and we have to rely on overseas folk to do this.

I walk along Ocean Pde in the morning and the same people are surfing all morning.

Then you look at the skate park any day and it’s full of teenagers.

Where have their work ethics gone?

Is it far too easy to get by on handouts from Centrelink?

I heard someone say kids are just different these days.

I disagree, kids are the same.

What’s changed is a society with lowered expectations, lack of discipline and an acceptance of disrespect.

Give kids boundaries, expectations, rules, limits, rewards and consequences – they will rise to the challenge and exceed your expectations every time.

Regards,
P.TAYLOR
Coffs Harbour.

 

By Tara CAMPBELL