Source: The Telegraph >> Read Full Article and Comment
Today’s children are knowing, ironic – and often more savvy than we are.
Lawrence and I are in a café ordering hot chocolates. As we wait, we notice the latest absurd kind of flavoured water. This one says on the label in large letters “This Water” and underneath, in smaller type, “is made from water and clouds.”
“Water and clouds! Do me a favour,” I say. “Look on the back. I bet you it’s got sugar in it.”
It has. My poor 12-year-old is disillusioned.
“Do you have to crush my world?” he says.
Actually, he wasn’t that “illusioned” in the first place. Following a life-changing moment while watching a Channel 4 documentary about the sandwich business, he has been disturbingly well informed about the hidden evils of commercially processed food. His knowledge is impressive, though it has led to his snatching ketchup bottles from the chubby fingers of small children and exclaiming: “Twenty-eight per cent sugar: that’s nearly as much as Fanta!”
His sister reserves her scepticism for the cosmetics companies, exposing their venal motives by jeering at the television when those chains of polybibbles and deeply cleansing fractalides come on to flog moisturiser. Admittedly this youthful cynicism is partly our own fault, since w… Continue Reading
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