Baby boomers versus today's kids...you never had it so good!

[MarkCDodd]

Nursing in Australia became far more attractive after they introduced Nurses Aids.

The aids do many of he less pleasant tasks and free the Nurses to concentrate on the medical care of the patient under the orders of the treating doctors.

As for choosing your job based on your interesr, that is one thing I do not see very often even amongst my more modern cousins in England.

It still seems to me that place of birth, class and family tradition pick your vocation far more in the U.K than Australia.

That was what my father was hoping to avoid when he dragged us over here in the 1960's.

He hoped we could pick and choose what we wanted to be.

Having said that, my immediate cousins in England are more than happy with their lot in life and I have seen that throughout my Black Country ancestry.

[gardener]

Sliding slightly off topic... it was on the tv news last night and the net today, that the council run youthclubs have passed clothing rules for their dances (this is for 13 to 16 yearolds I guess):
1) If you wear a skirt shorter than your knee you must wear coloured tights or ankle-length leggings
2) No revealing tops or dresses
3) No totally un buttoned shirts or bare torsos (I'm guessing that one is for the boys).

Apparently the staff have been embarrassed by some of the clothes recently!

[snoopysue]

Sliding slightly off topic... it was on the tv news last night and the net today, that the council run youthclubs have passed clothing rules for their dances (this is for 13 to 16 yearolds I guess):
1) If you wear a skirt shorter than your knee you must wear coloured tights or ankle-length leggings
2) No revealing tops or dresses
3) No totally un buttoned shirts or bare torsos (I'm guessing that one is for the boys).

Apparently the staff have been embarrassed by some of the clothes recently!

I know what they mean though!
People in Denmark think school uniforms are strange, but most complain about what their/other people's kids wear to school. School uniforms would get rid of most inapropriate dress, and help level the playing field in regards to who can afford the dearest clothes!

[MarkCDodd]

Back in my school days the dresses were far shorter than now and they didn't wear shorts underneath.

My mum said that they had to kneel with their back straight and if their dress did not touch the ground they were sent home as being indecent.

My youngest and her friends all wear short dresses or cut off shorts but they wear bike pants or stockings as well.

They are a lot less revealing than the school girls of the 1960's and 70's.