NADINE M. MATHIS: Times have changed for children

I think cellphones are not safe and secure for our children. Even the president doesn’t need a cellphone. He tweets things that get him in trouble. I say, cellphones are not safe.

Of course, I am from the generation of yesterday. We see and hear lots about today’s children growing up. When I came up as a teenager, children were seen and not heard. Today, children tell the parents what to do.

How times have changed.

My years growing up were definitely hardship, love, discipline and to stay very quiet. Today, the opposite.

How times have changed, for better or worse.

I say that as a child’s mind develops, ages 2-6 make a child one way or the other. The brain can only take in so much at a young age, but somehow the young develop what they see, hear and so on. They start developing a tendency of learning by 6 years old and from there on they learn more and more daily.

NADINE M. MATHIS

Albany

EDITOR’S NOTE: Nadine Mathis is a 97-year-old Albany resident who frequently contributes to the Perspectives page.