{"id":5324,"date":"2012-03-28T09:26:28","date_gmt":"2012-03-28T08:26:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.livingwithkids.co.uk\/?p=5324"},"modified":"2013-06-24T13:03:14","modified_gmt":"2013-06-24T13:03:14","slug":"why-kids-arent-a-waste-of-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kidstart.co.uk\/blog\/why-kids-arent-a-waste-of-space\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Kids Aren’t A Waste of Space"},"content":{"rendered":"I don’t know about you but I get a bit tired of hearing how useless kids are these days. And how all they do is watch reality TV, eat junk and play computer games. It gives the impression that all of them are useless and apathetic when I think this is blatantly untrue.\n\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.livingwithkids.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Blog1.jpg\" "\\"Blog\\"")
<\/a>\n\nIn recent school talks I’ve done I’ve found both tweens and teens both interested and interesting on a range of subjects from politics to environmental issues and more personal issues. In one school a bunch of 13 year old kids created a peer mentor programme for bullying and at another they’d managed to get someone from Team GB to come and talk about the importance of sport and then do a training session with them, which when you think of it is pretty incredible.\n\nOn Monday I helped my 5 year old get involved in a web chat on CCBC’s website with the presenter from Deadly 60<\/a> – the BAFTA winning hugely popular wildlife show. The web chat was teaming with huge amounts of kids aged between 5 – 15 asking brilliant questions about animals, wildlife and ecology. 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