Environment of future generation

They say childhood of the past, presence and future are all different, yet everchanging.
Here I am guessing what childhood of the future would be like.
Alreday, we have young children highly advanced with technology such as smart phones, iPads, Tablets etc etc.
When these children grow and create another generation, wouldnt there be more diverse development in life? Totally different environment is expected! Hologram classroom? May be something like in movie Wall-E, where children are taught of alphabets in virtual classrooms with robots? Smart-phone may be replaced by another mobile service. We might even not need to use recording device to learn? Children making friends could be more or less physical and social than now? And we might say like the old blokes out there "back in the days when I was your age..."
Potentials are diverse. However as important these potentials would be, I suppose we would still have balance in life. I may sound conservative with that line. But still now we live in highly technologically advanced than ever before, yet we manage to live with traditional schemes and traditional way of living. May be this is not as traditional as thousands of years ago but we still use different aspects of our sense and skills/talents to survive.

Heroes from the childhood

For a long time (I kept this for eight years of my life) I have wanted to become a Veterinarian practitioner -yes now I know that this had been quite atypical of a child, not changing their future wannabe job thing for that long. I wanted to head to Africa, Serrengeti and Madagascar those wild zones and live in there making friends with animals. I still remember dreaming about this haha. Well, as a result Tippi Degre was like the one of my idol and hero!

A seven year old who play, drink, sleep, eat, talk and basically live with animal friend out in the wild? I remember I envied her so much I even used to begggggg on mum to buy me that book "Tippi- my book of Africa" and i read it over and over again so many times haha. With this I came across an article explaining what shes been upto after her childhood check it out at  http://www.buzzfeed.com/rachelzarrell/the-real-life-cady-heron-who-grew-up-in-africa-tippi-degre?s=mobile#1r6cvbt.
But I also wonder, besides the child animation and movie character, what heroes are children surrounded by? Kpop stars like Psy who sang Gangnam style? Harry potter? The Pope? Yet, till now Idolisation of a subject seems very important building up childhood of a person's life. So tell us, who was your idol?

Public media

Media and children nowadays
one of the good memories of my early youth has been the outdoor play i uses to do with my big brother and our neighbouring friends-from hide and seek to marble games, slap match, tips, you name it and we did it. Playground was fullllll of chn we frequently met new kiddos around the town hah
With today's exposure to child crime-kidnap, pedophile, rape, spam, stalk etc etc as well as violent setting of war, csi, heroic fight and all that in the public media, it seems as though more parents (than those in my childhood) like to keep their kids in the safe zone of 'Play where i can see you' (Helicopter parenting?)
 Of course on top of this there is the law highlighting the responsibility of a guardian to be with the chn all the time as well as game and technology advancement getting them to stay inside more and more. Really? Yet the government is worried of children not exercising enough and having high obesity rate? I dont wanna sound political but to  me it seems like as though there  is not much childlike childhood available to children. Maybe Some may say That new generation have different way of enjoying their childhood but here I leave with a question, why on earth then, are there more worries of today'S children from all than before while all these violence of child crime and war actually did exist from long time?

Trend of child images

Under assumption, we, human grow through influences of what surrounds us, it is important to consider about how they have been viewing 'us' when we were children. The way children were viewed in different time, sometimes or more frequently restricted, guided, opened or closed the pathways they grow, lived and experience and mature out. (the following factors written below purely rises from author's assumption from different readings,
hearings and thoughts)

children in 1800s

Long years back in 1800s for example, children were considered 'sinful', and 'filthy'.  Families and society thought it was their role to cleanse their soul and ensures they are brought up with 'manner' and 'moral' attitude. In this way, children had strict expectations on the way they behaved. While that was going on, children were exposed to unassisted casualties of war, diseases and crimes. Thinking about the limited technology in medicine, media and investigations  children back then would have been in more harsh physical condition than now.

children in 1900s

Moving on along in 1900s industrialization began. This meant the more mothers were to move to workforce and children were left in the house by themselves or sent to 'nanny' (not necessarily pre-school like system in nowadays). Yet, theme that children should be in 'good behaviour' like little adults still remained here. This meant that children were to be part of the responsible for housework such as cooking, cleaning, looking after youngsters and teaching them manners, and sometimes also making money out in the workforce (which still is remained in the developing countries back in 21st centuries). Look at movies like Sound of Music and see how these children are treated and think about the expectations of them back them.

These days there are excessive pressure on study with children

With the millennium along with development in research of education, pedagogy, child psychology, and sociology, the image of children became less solid. There are people who see them just very capable, while some may still see them 'naughty' or 'teach-able subjects'. However coming into 2010s, one common factor seems to be valid in general public. Globally speaking, there had been an increase on academic value of childhood, for example in Australia, now parents are raising their children to write and mathematically operate before primary school, get ready for NAPLAN, then Selective high school test, and then? HSC? These demands had been accelerating the time children spend with tuition or 'studying' time. While Australia still, luckily, is not that 'fussy' with studying (not as much as America or Asian culture these days), as well as technological development childhood that people in 20s or 30s enjoyed, appear to be disappearing.
May be children who grow up now, will think that they don't know where the childhood is heading when they reach 20s or 30s but I personally prefer the way I was able to enjoy both natural and physical plays with hands-on experiences as well as early development of technology (although this was much limited).

Welcome to CM Grew and Gone!

 Welcome to our new blog - CM Grew and Gone. CM are our childhood memories, centimetres of how tall we grew and bits of nostalgia to be shared with you.  Here's a poem by T to start things off...

Take me to my childhood,

An unforgettable moment.

A time of careless pleasure,

With no thought for what should be.

Hours of carefree happiness,

With joyful giggles and laughs,

And easily moved by all.

Days of selfless delight,

Weeks of fun,

Years of trying to grow up,

But just under a decade long.

Take me back to my childhood,

filled with unforgettable memories.

A moment grew and gone….

A few nostalgic moments to be shared with CM.