Talking with some more experienced co-workers today, one of them an occupational therapist, and the conversation mainly was centered around immigrant and refugee children, the lives they may have led before coming to Canada, or the lives their parents may have lead. One of the older workers commened that her son's biggest problem was a 'broken iPod', and how Kids These Days don't really know what hardship is.
But part of our jobs is to help ensure that a broken iPod is the biggest tragedy that our immigrant children ever have to deal with. I can sure see where the argument about our generation and generations after being 'soft', but I think I'd really, really rather my kids be soft, rather than 14 years old and unable to read or write at a 1st grade level cause they grew up in a refugee camp.
Giant Robots think that a newly arrived immigrant to Canada would think 'counter-culture' anti-materialists were stone-cold crazy.
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